Please calm me down...

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(04-02-2020, 11:11 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Everyone in the Bengals front office has the internet.

And, believe it or not, they do use it to look at what their fans are thinking.

They usually don't take it into account, at least not word for word.

But make no mistake. The Bengals coaches, scouts, front office executives and owners all know that every Bengals fan in the world is on board with Joe Burrow at 1.

To not take him would be virtually suicide, from a franchise's standpoint. We'd have a full scale mutiny the likes of which we've never seen in sports before.

And, if they don't take Burrow, it would need to be because of a literally franchise altering group of picks.

I'm not talking "fair market value" either. I see these mock drafts where the Bengals get 1 additional first round pick and a 2nd round pick this year. And the logic they use is "three first round picks in this deal would be too much."

Those mock drafts are ***** insulting.

We're talking "I can't believe a franchise would be so ballsy to ever offer that much for 1 player" levels of value.

I'm thinking the minimum asking price is all of Miami's 1st and 2nd round picks this year and next year (that's 5 first round picks and 4 2nd round picks). And even then I'd still require Tua before making that trade. We need to come out of this draft with either Burrow or Tua + a ton of picks.

Does that make you feel better?

Good points.  I think another issue that goes overlooked is that this is actually a terrible year to do the proverbial "boatload of picks" trade simply due to the fact that teams have been limited to the amount and quality of scouting they can do due to the COVID outbreak.  It's hard to pass on the consensus #1 pick because you can't have as much confidence in those late 1st's Miami would hypothetically throw in because you simply don't have as much information as you normally would.