Bengals close to re-signing Pat Sims

[Benton]

(03-15-2016, 09:22 AM)Bengalbug Wrote: Depends on board.  If a reciever or linebacker is top of their board in round one and DT is 3rd he won't be a first round pick.  If cb or OL is BPA in round two it won't happen either.  The bengals are going to go for the best value regardless of position.  It's honestly not much different than fantasy football and a method that helps me win a lot of leages. I don't draft players I draft value and tiers.  If you get ennamored on one guy you become desperate and blind to everything else around you.  


Funny how that concept relates to real life:

True, to a point. It works for fantasy football, but not always in real life. If you go several years without addressing a position, it's going to catch up to you. If you don't take a risk on a player here or there, but only where you've got them slotted, you run the risk of having one starting player and a bunch of rotational guys. Which is what our line is. In fantasy football, if you ignore a position... well... hell, you can't. There's not that many to ignore.

(03-15-2016, 09:29 AM)JungleRock85 Wrote: Big Daddy Wilkenson and Devon Still are Defensive Tackles drafted in the 1st and 2nd round. By no means should this stop the Bengals from drafting the position early (Malcolm Brown fan last year myself) but I do think those past failures and the success of 4th round players like Geno Atkins and Domato Peko and they are hoping Marcus Hardison make the mid rounds of the draft the most comfortable and likely spot they will draft Defensive Tackles for the foreseeable future. I fully expect that no matter who is re-signed or not re-signed that the Bengals won't draft a Defensive Tackle until the 3rd or 4th round at the earliest.

Still was at the tail end of the second and a DE, which is a gamble in the NFL. Wilkenson was a good player and a #1... 30 years ago. I'm not getting the connection.

We've had success in the mid rounds, but you can't keep trying to get lucky. With the exception of Geno, we're just making due with our mid-round DL guys. We made due with Jerome Simpson and Andre Caldwell, but we still drafted AJ Green. I want a Green at DT, not a Simpson.