01-16-2020, 10:00 PM
(01-16-2020, 06:06 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: I am an optimist but I normally hate predictions prior to draft and FA period. I have read thread after thread knocking our FO (a lot deserved), but it is the same group that assembled a team getting to the playoffs 5 years in a row (no easy feat).
So here we go in 2020:
We draft Burrow and trade AD for a 3rd and a 5th round pick.
We re-sign AJ Green to a 3 year deal.
Jonah Williams plays like a 1st round pick in his first official year shoring up our OL.
The Bengals add a very good LB in FA (using Dalton money)
Bengals improve to 9-7 and are in running for playoffs in 2020.
By 2021, Bengals are back in the playoff hunt every year for the rest of the decade as Burrow becomes the next Peyton Manning.
ZT ends up being a great hire.
There it is, an entire post of positives (this will drive the naysayers crazy)
Thoughts?
I mean it isn't rocket science on how to make this team a contender. We should have the next great QB, we need to protect him
and open up lanes for our stud RB in Mixon, we need to improve the LB's, we need to add a few weapons for our next great QB
to work with so we can score some points. I think all could happen this season with what should be the next great QB.
You don't bring this guy in here and say, oh we are getting there just need to add the QB.
Winning only 2 games last year we are a ways away and it needs to be admitted and addressed and I think it will with Burrow.
MB needs the fans back, this is the easy path to bringing them back. This will make the most money and we might actually win
something with a QB with ice water in his veins here that can lead a team to the promised land.
