If they all were fired

[CJD]

(11-18-2024, 11:32 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I was listening to Sirius this afternoon and a frustrated Bengal fan came on the vent.

He started with Mikey being 89 (is he really that old) and had enough of Zac, Lou, Duke, Pritcher and the whole FO/Coaching staff (you know the type). He said if they were all fired today, they would never get an offer from another NFL Franchise.

I was waiting for Kirwan and Milz to correct him on Zac and they eventually brought that up as an after-thought, but the person they both balked on loudly and immediately was Duke. They both said Duke would be snapped up before the ink dried on the pink slip and laughed at dude for thinking otherwise.

Just made me think. Everyone loves our drafts he day after but they seem to never pan out.

I think a lot of people "trust the Front Office" when it comes to draft picks. They have often not made consensus "value" picks in the draft.

For example, I think Drew Sample (round 4), Jackson Carman (round 3), Cam Sample (round 6), Zachary Carter (round 4), Cordell Volson (round 6-7), Jermaine Burton (round 5), and McKinnley Jackson (round 6) were all considered reaches on draft day; some of them were considered fairly large reaches. In parentheses is NFL.com's round projection for each player.

To me, there has been at least one head scratcher in every single draft. And, so far, not a single one of those head scratcher picks has turned into a quality starter. Some of them have held starter roles purely out of lack of options (like Volson), but I can't remember the last time the Bengals drafted a player who I thought was overdrafted, and then they turned into a quality player.