Bengals- One of the best over next 3 years?

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(07-06-2015, 12:55 PM)Nately120 Wrote: 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.

My point was that many teams would have selected them as early first round talent.  No one could see that Smith and Klingler would be so inept.  However, that is what teams w/o a QB end up doing:  reaching for what is perceived to be the best talent available.  The Bengals had no QB and needed to get one.  If either one of those guys ended up being Aaron Rogers, the world would be quite different.