Stupid Dead Cat Bounce

[Bengalbug]

(12-16-2024, 01:33 AM)Tomkat Wrote: There's more harm in winning than just draft position.  There's also making it less likely that badly needed changes (coaching, etc) get made.
You're too focused on the short term, while ignoring the long term.
Stop playing the stupid macho "loser mentality" card, it's silly and irrelevant, and BE LOGICAL.

There is no harm in winning, as we have the cornerstone pieces, Joe Burrow and Chase. If you think that a player drafted 8th vs 16th is the difference, that’s silly. Let’s consider outside free agents, which we will need a lot of. Do you want to play for the 5–12 bengals, and under Zac, where the team packed it in, or for the 8-9/9-8 (hypothetical) bengals that played hard until the end? Obviously it hasn’t gone the bengals way, but if the team can finish strong, it will only be a net positive for the longterm outlook.

I’d say Lou is as good as gone, although he has mixed up stuff more the last few weeks (where was that earlier in the year?). So is Pollack.

Consider who we have playing CB for us. Guys who are rookies, Benched and unknowns. If you continue to see an upward trend from a few, Maybe CB isn’t as big of a hole as we thought. So if player development is part of this winning streak, or whatever you call it, you are hopefully limiting your needs in the future.

Our IOL is toast, that’s a need.
Our WR room is shaky, especially if Tee Leaves.
Our DL room needs a lot.
Our secondary is not good. That said, I think this is the one area where you could have some contribution as they are all young, outside of Hilton.

Idk, I was rooting for losses in 2020 after burrow got hurt, but that MNF game against the Steelers set the tone for the 2021-2022 seasons. The bengals still got Chase as they were really in a bad spot that year, but after that year, I decided that there is more ancillary value to winning games than draft picks. If the bengals lose that game, against the Steelers, maybe they draft Kyle Pitts… or maybe they grab Chase, but Vonn Bell never becomes a leader on D like he did for those playoff runs.

Hindsight is 20/20 and the draft is such a crapshoot anyway.