{The Ultimate Bengals Offseason Extravaganza Thread}

[Bengalbug]

(03-19-2025, 10:08 PM)007BengalsFan Wrote: It's much easier to hit when you are picking in the top 5, twice.  Those are generally cant miss picks.  Mims was picked 17th.  Jonah Williams was 11th.  The highest pick Zac has spent on defense was Myles Murphy at #28.  Overall Zac Taylor has spent 7 1st and 2nd round picks on offense vs 5 on defense.  Also, the picks on offense have been much higher so all picks are not the same.

Offense:  1, 5, 11, 17, 33, 46, 52

Defense:  28, 31, 49, 60, 60

Over the last 3 drafts 8 out of10, 1st through third round picks have gone to defense.

Prior to that, the bengals went way out of character acquiring vets over a 2 year span:

Reader, Hendrickson, Hill, Larry O, Chido, Vonn. Lou was gifted a good veteran defense, the issue was he couldn’t coach up ANY of the young guys to help take over the last 3 years. The 2019-2020 offseason defense addition model is unsustainable.

It’s not like the bengals just say.. we are picking top 5… gonna go offense here. Burrow and Chase were BPA at the time. Same for Dax, Murphy, etc when they were getting picked (hindsight 20/20).

You’re really trying to manipulate this into some twisted non truth.

The reality is the bengals had one of the highest paid defenses in the NFL last year and they were not returning on invesment.