04-28-2017, 10:13 AM
(04-28-2017, 08:55 AM)lone bengal Wrote: At first I didn't like the pick but the more I thought about it the more I liked it. If you look at the options at 9 Ross made sense. We can't complain about his injuries and then say the Bengals should draft Allen who's had two serious shoulder injuries and arthritis, plus he plays Geno's position. Foster at 9 was two high with a shoulder injury along with a ,diluted sample, being asked to leave the combine and character concerns. People would have lost it if we drafted another CB in Lattimore because we have so many CB's plus this draft is loaded can get good one's later. Hooker at 9 maybe ? but he has injury problems too, with the fact that he started one year and we have two young safeties. We need O-line help but this is a terrible O-line draft and no linemen was even close to be being worthy of being drafted at 9. O.J Howard maybe? We need an RB but no RB was worth taking at 9 plus Cook, Mixon and Kamara all still on the Board going into day 2.
My thinking is similar to this.
Plus, looking at the big picture...we have a Top 10 defense.
It's our offense that isn't Top 10. How do we get that? Add speed.
While people do a straight stat for stat comparison with Marvin Jones and Lafell and say that it's a wash. Jones speed allowed some of the coverage to shift off of AJ. Ross gets us that back.
