10-13-2020, 10:03 AM
(10-12-2020, 11:15 AM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: Why not? Easier than typing it out.
How is typing #1 OA easier than #1?
(10-12-2020, 04:43 PM)SHRacerX Wrote: Probably not. They will fall in love with flashy new toy instead of building a team from the trenches. Balt and pitt get it, and win. The Bengals....
Half of their 1st round picks in the last six years have been O-linemen. They've spent as many first round picks on O-line in the last six years as the rest of the division has combined (Cleveland have 2 out of their 9(!) first round picks, Steelers 0 out of 6, Ravens 1 out of 7).
The problem is they've picked badly.
(10-12-2020, 08:33 PM)WhodeyRay Wrote: I think getting the #1 and trading it away for a load of picks is the only way this gets turned around in the next 5 years. If you look at this team with open eyes and not as a fan it may be the only way for a turn around. When you figure we will need 5-6 starts next year and you have to count on injuries happening so 1 really good backup at each position group we have a ways to go. Going into a season hoping your starters don't get hurt is like playing the loto. Its fun to think about but never happening. Not all picks will hit but hitting 3-4 guys on say 7 top 100 picks compared 3 top 100 picks gives better olds of changing things.
The last window was opened by getting an extra picks - an extra first and second for Carson which allowed us to get Zeitler and Gio and then we got Marvin Jones with the pick from the Pats for Chad.
That window would have been extended if we'd managed to get that trade over the line for McCarron and history may have been very different.
This time we're trying to rebuild with one hand behind our back because we have zero extra picks. No veterans traded away like Carson and Chad for extra draft capital, not even any compensation picks for 2 years in a row. The front office have handled this rebuild negligently. Eifert, Glenn, Dalton, Billings and maybe even one or more of Green, Atkins, Dunlap or Mixon should have all been traded last year. The failure to get anything for Dalton - in part because they tanked his value but also because they refused to eat the necessary money - has set the rebuild back considerably. An extra late second round pick would have enabled us to add someone like Damian Lewis or my choice of Josh Jones on the line.
Instead the Bengals are going to spend Burrow's rookie contract trying to bed in rookies on the OLine whilst paying big bucks for a RB who has no blocking.
