Mock draft giving Bengals top pick in 2021 draft - Already

[Murdock2420]

(09-19-2020, 09:45 PM)jason Wrote: There's a huge difference in how the Chiefs drafted Mahomes. He wasn't the number 1 overall pick. He came into a situation where the team was making the playoffs or hovering around them. Alex Smith was actually ballin' during Mahomes rookie year. It would've been the equivalent of getting Burrow at number 10 in 2013.

I was sayin' this last year. Number 1 overall QBs have a harder road ahead of them than the guys taken in later rounds or later in the first. They're walking into a shit situation... All of them. It wasn't dumb to take him though. We'd already broken our last QB, and had to take him. Kansas City never fell to those lows, so yeah... It looks like they did it the right way. But other teams have tried to do that, and it didn't work.

And Lord have mercy... Burrow is 2 games into his career, and the man is as advertised. The doom and gloom about him that some have is sorta silly.

If you don't want to use the Chiefs model, look at the Rams then, they were garbage, and made all kinds of moves to improve then traded up to get Goff. So far, it has worked well for them and he hasn't taken the abuse.

This isn't about Burrow not being good. I said it pre-draft and I'll say it here again. This is about this franchise and how bad it is run. They draft Burrow and so many fans took that as "all is well now." If you need proof of that, see this board and the predictions for 8 wins or 9 wins this year before the first game. This team, has to rebuild from the ground up as bad as we are, you can't have the face of your franchise spend the next 2 or 3 seasons getting frustrated with loses and hit almost every time he drops back. The right course of action for this team would have been to trade Dunlap, trade Geno, trade A.J., trade the first pick and go about stockpiling the team with young players. You do this till you have the talent and the draft capital and then you get your franchise guy. 

But hey, everyone is happy we have Burrow. He is the answer. Yet we are still 0-2 and one player isn't going to be the difference.