10-13-2020, 10:18 AM
(10-13-2020, 10:03 AM)TJHoushmandzadeh Wrote: How is typing #1 OA easier than #1?You hit the nail on the head! Be rebuilt when we have to pay a qb 40 mill a year then have to let the others go again.
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.
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.
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