07-06-2019, 05:48 PM
(07-06-2019, 03:24 PM)bengals67 Wrote: Problem is that the alleged superior Duke Tobin ( or whoever is making the calls) has been missing on draft picks for the last few years.
Ross was a dumb pick. They should have taken an o lineman or a linebacker.
It has all gone downhill fast since the Fisher and Og we don't need Whit or Zeitler any more debacle.
Nothing wrong with plan to let older players go before they break down and using high draft picks to replace them. The problem a has been in the execution.
Even the best teams have high draft picks that flop, but they will use free agency to fill holes when they miss in the draft. Not every player taken in the first two rounds will be good, but most of them should at least be starters. In just the last 7 years we have used those picks on guys like Devon Still, Margus Hunt, Tyler Eifert, Jeremy Hill, Jake Fisher, Cedric Ogbuehi, John Ross, and Billy Price. I still feel pretty good about Price, and we did get one good year each out of Hill and Eifert, but that is 8 players in the first two rounds with very little production at all. If you are a team that lives by the draft those picks should be what you build your team around.
