Bengals have to take Chase Young

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(11-24-2019, 08:55 AM)kevin Wrote: I agree.  Look, ESPN, CBS, the FOX announcers all say Chase Young is the best player in college football.  

I see what they are saying.  He is fast, gets in on many plays.  Makes the big plays.  He is a GAME CHANGER.  He is what Bill Parcel called a GAME CHANGER and he said there were only a few of those in NFL.  This Chase Young looks like he could be a Defensive Game Changer like a Lawrence Taylor, Bruce Smith or Dwight Freeney.  What I like is he has that speed to get to the plays that Tony Dungy built defenses on. 

He is an edge rusher mostly.  Some might say we have Dunlap already.  Dunlap and Atkins are getting older.  Their contracts have them in Cincy next season and beyond.   You add Chase Young to Dunlap and Atkins in our Front 7 and this Defense should go from Bad to Great.  

I'm also for taking a LB in 2.   We haven't taken a top LB in forever. 

You add Chase Young and one of the first LBs taken in early 2, and this D gets a major upgrade in talent. 

In 3 and 4 then I would want O Line.  We need help very much there, and some good blockers in 3 and 4.  

This is NOT touch football.  Get some monsters on D and O Line where Bengals are Weak. 

Bengals don't have the coaching prowess to turn a mid-round OL into a good player.
They either have to have a 1st rounder who is ready or an established guy.
They won't pay the money to properly get an established guy via outside FA.

You might say, "What about Trey Hopkins?!" Well, Hopkins came into the league in 2014. It's taken him all these years to finally amount to something. Do people really want to wait 5 years for the rest of the OL to (maybe) finally come along? I don't.