Bengals- One of the best over next 3 years?

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(07-06-2015, 09:13 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: There were a lot of teams that would have drafted Reinard Wilson, Ki-Jana Carter, Akili Smith, David Klingler.  The fact that they were among the greatest NFL busts of all time (all of them!) killed this team in that era.

Point taken, but Smith and Klinger are less defensible because we were offered a king's ransom for our Smith pick and refused it (I honestly doubt a lot of teams would have turned down that offer) and we sort of reached for Klingler.  Then again, both picks were also busts because we threw them into terrible situations rather than, you know, trading down to build the rest of the team.

Honestly, we should have traded down in 2003 and dealt the Palmer pick, too.  This team could have won 0 playoff games with Leftwich/Boller/Grossman.