03-21-2018, 02:55 PM
(03-21-2018, 02:14 PM)Hammerstripes Wrote: That's true, but we've also seen the likes of Nate Livings, Eric Ghiacuc, Bodine and countless other mid to late rounders in Cincy that never contribute anything close to good line play.
If we really are trying to win games with the current core players, we need to have guys that can step right in and play. We can't mess around with another year of shitty interior o-line play.
Interior lineman is the place where mid round guys flourish. If you told me we needed tackles, which we still may but this conversation revolves around interior, I'd agree with you more. Clint Boling was a 4th round pick and while he wasn't great his rookie year, very few lineman are, he has developed well over the years. My point is the idea that if we don't take a guy in the first 2 rounds we are destined to fail is just false expectations. Plenty of lineman from early rounds end up failures just like plenty of lineman in the mid to late flourish, the draft and where guys are taken doesn't dictate how good someone will.
This really is about fixing expectations, a lot of people have differing opinions of how to fix the team and many will be upset if their concern isn't addressed in the first round, we found last year that sometimes you can fix issues with 4th round picks. I think in this class there are plenty of 3rd and 4th round graded lineman that can make our team better, but with that said I am not opposed to one early I simply don't think it is a requirement if the board shakes out differently.
