***Official 2019 NFL Draft Discussion Thread***

[MTBengalsFan]

(04-27-2019, 05:00 PM)yang Wrote: It's even easier to be complete homers on a Bengals board and believe everything this team does is great because of your explicit and confirmation bias.  Rather than defend their analysis it's easy to attack the person morally.  And yet the fact remains when you go watch the interviews of these coaches defending the picks one is easily reminded these are a lot of coaches that look drastically out of their depth.  these are not proven and confident NFL coaches.  It is also apparent they were given a lot of pull on these picks given they were telling them the first night over dinner they liked them and would draft them.  I mean let that sink in.  we drafted a guy because the coach liked to hang out with him.  So nice.  Probably got that from Belichek.

You can be happy and attack us whiners and be happy with the first 4 picks you got a 3rd string TE and a backup QB.  yippee!   Revel in the fact you got a new guard who might start and a backup defensive tackle!  Weeeee!!!!!!

Meanwhile the rest of the division is crushing it.

I've followed the Bengals since the beginning. Any Bengal fan knows not to get his hopes too high. Your bile, however, is a bit much. 

Consider this quote from Rob Rang with CbsSports after our 2015 draft: Like the Ravens, the Bengals do a nice job of using the draft as it is intended - to develop young talent to fill holes left by free agent defections. Tackles Andrew Whitworth and Andre Smith are each entering the final year of their respective contracts, which gives the club time to let Cedric Ogbuehi -- a top 10 talent -- heal from the torn ACL that ended his 2014 season prematurely. The Bengals assured that tackle wouldn't be an issue with Jake Fisher in the second round, a prospect many clubs viewed as a first-round talent. Linebacker Paul Dawson could prove the next version of Vontaze Burfict -- a future starter who slid because of poor workouts and off-field issues. Watch out for hard-hitting defensive back Josh Shaw and up-and-coming defensive lineman Marcus Hardison to surprise as middle-round picks. 


Mel Kiper gave the Bengals a B+ for the same draft.


Sometimes it doesn't work like the pundits figure it will.