01-03-2020, 11:01 AM
(01-03-2020, 04:27 AM)Murdock2420 Wrote: And still, I want to know, if you draft Burrow and end up 2-14 again next year do you pass on Lawrence who is even better because you took Burrow? You won't get the trade capital for a player as you will for a pick (see Josh Rosen).
LOL. What team asks itself what you are asking? Nobody is going to plan based on such a hypothetical. And there is little reason to expect the Bengals to go 2-14 again. Yes, the roster has plenty of holes, but they went 0-8 in one score games against a difficult schedule. The odds tend to balance out close games and the Bengals will be touted as one to expect a jump in wins from in 2020 because of this. Burrow would have to be Finley level bad for the Bengals to go 2-14.
Picks are great, but you still have turn them into players. The Browns were lauded for trading back with the Falcons instead of taking Julio Jones, then turned all of those picks into a terrible group of players. Then the same thing happened a few years later when they traded back with Philly (who took Wentz).
There’s zero reason to believe Miami would give up most of the capital they’ve acquired to trade up for Burrow anyway, so all of this angst seems misplaced. If they did, the Bengals would have to think about taking it, but there’s a good argument to be made for a bare bones operation like the Bengals staying put and taking the best player.
