Dalton Risner: "Would LOVE to be a Bengal"

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(04-08-2025, 01:56 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: I disagree entirely because the entire goal of free agency and the draft should be to keep Burrow protected, especially when it only requires acquiring, via free agency and the draft, two guards that can pass protect and hopefully open some holes for Brown. 

Burrow has proven that he can be the best quarterback in the league when he is given protection, but we just have never given him consistent protection and he has still produced.

Priority number two should be improving the pass rush because that makes the secondary's life a lot easier. I've called for Walter Nolen in the first round because he can draw blocks off the ends and blitzing backers, and then a defensive end and then a safety. This draft is so weak at safety that I think we're wasting a pick taking one early, even Emmanwori. 

If I'm Zac, I'm telling Al Golden we need to stop the run and rush the quarterback before anything else because that keeps the offense in 2nd and 3rd and longs and also makes the secondary's job easier, and one of Golden's strengths is coordinating defenses to fit his players' strengths and he doesn't try and fit a square peg in a round hole.

It is just my opinion, yours differs and that is what makes the world go round and round. I feel too many get locked into their own answers to fix the team and then get upset if Bengals go a different direction.

For me, I think all of the positions are needs. If they draft a guard in round 1 and disagree with my plan, that is great and I hope they draft the right guard to be great quickly. In the end the team needs to pick the right guy to make our team better. The early round picks need to be winners, not misses. They could pick a DE at #17 and him be a bust so my plan on position to draft first based on major need would not be improved.

I hope we all agree, it is not easy to predict the next start after round 1 nor draft. But, our FO needs to have a great draft every year by fuguring it out.

If they adopt your plan, hope he is a stud and helps protect JB for the next 10 years and helps us win a Super Bowl.