Still just sick over this...

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(09-05-2015, 10:27 PM)BengalChris Wrote: We almost never draft straight best player available, and few teams do. Instead position needs factor heavily in the Bengals draft picks. We were going to draft two OTs this year regardless and one of them was going to be in the 1st round no matter what. That's just how this team drafts.

The team tries to fill a position of need (or a position it believes is going to be a near future need) with the best player it can draft. That's different than BPA.

In 2010 we needed a TE and we had Ocho and Owens for starting WRs. So we draft Gresham while Dez Bryant was still on the board. The fact is we were going to draft one of the top TEs that year no matter what and no dangling super star was going to stop us.

Hindsight is always better and no one really knows what Mikey B sees anyway.

This is just beyond dumb.

Fisher was ranked far ahead of Lockett so in this case the Bengals FO grabbed the best player available and no disputing it.

Let's look at the 2015 draft. Fisher was a top ranked OT and projected 1st round pick or early second round pick. Lockett was a projected 2nd or 3rd round pick.

We had issues at both OL and WR for the future due to contracts in 2016. We had more immediate concerns at WR due to injuries of M. Jones and AJ Green in 2014.

So when faced to take most needed position, we took a 4th OT over a WR as we had already addressed the OT 2016 situation.

All of this is what makes your attempted trashing of Tobin, Katie, MB and ML make you look like you have no football IQ.