03-23-2025, 01:25 PM
(03-23-2025, 01:07 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Browns option is to reach with #2 pick (neither QB is ranked in top 10 and do not make most picks with no risk lists either) and pass up one of the best 2 picks in the draft due to a bad contract with Watson.
Again, if this were the Bengals you would applaud them for going on a limb, a limb already badly dammaged and ready to break.
If does no good to spend money and not get a great return. In FA, it is common teams overpay and never get the return they were hoping. There is no guarantee Fries will live up to his contract for example.
The QB was just an example. Perhaps they get a 2nd rd QB etc.
The risk I'm asking the Bengals to take isn't nearly as severe as what the Browns did we have our QB and any other position will have inherently less risk involved.
Also I'm not saying Fries or any other FA that got a big contract just a guard who on paper is an obvious upgrade/legitimate starter.
FA is all but over so it may have only been Zeitler which i don't put much stock into reports of he wouldn't come here. I think a 2yr deal 20milish gets him here.
But again FA is all but over so I'm not expecting anything else but I just don't know what we can realistically expect out of draft with 6 picks and the holes we have. Perhaps we lower our asking price for Trey or try and get a solid guard and lower pick for him. I really don't want to trade him but he wants and deserves compensation and if we are on a multi year rebuild it may be best to think beyond the 2 or 3 yrs he could be here.
