The second you sign a decent FA you lose that comp pick anyways, so you are getting no compensation if you do that.
We lost Bates 3rd round pick because of Orlando Brown.
Granted, Tee to us is worth more than a 2nd round pick, because you can get Marvin Harrison Jr. and not know if he is going...
I guess Reader wasn't as much part of our defense as I thought he was. I know after he got hurt the run defense looked like hell, but if that is all he was lining up as a NT, then I don't know. Both Murphy and Newton can get after the QB from the DT position.
I like that draft if it were to fall like that.
I think Newton can be very good as well. I like his ability to anchor a run defense, but still has enough explosiveness to be a legit pass rusher from the inside.
https://www.bengals.com/news/media-mock-draft-2024-2-0-geoff-hobson
So what are your thought process on this pick? Great, good, not sure, or terrible?
I kinda understand his logic here, and I would have really liked to have seen us get DJ back, but that does make NT a pretty important piece...
Sweat is an unknown. I have seen drafts that have him in the mid to late 1st, to him going all the way down to the beginning of the third. I don't think anyone has an idea where his true value lands when it comes to the draft. Donald was not highly graded out for the draft either, so you...
I don't disagree after looking at our free agent pickups. They have to go RT, I just hope there is not a flurry of trading up to grab these tackles leaving us with our thumbs up our asses going, well, best player available while we have a guy from Kroger blocking TJ Watt and Myles Garrett.
What worries me about that plan, and I know that tackle is kind of a stacked position this year in the draft, they need a RT not a conversion RT from left. Not sure how many guys fit that position, and how much teams behind or ahead or going to say, the Bengals are drafting a tackle, we need to...
Do you think the Bengals have any interest in Trent Brown for RT? I know he played LT last year, but he has played RT in his career and he is a huge dude, kinda like what you would expect from a RT. Then if we draft a RT, Brown can be the versatile tackle that goes left or right.
Well, I can see Bell being brought in as a mentor, but I can tell you right now, Bell will be playing. May be a lot of 3 safety looks, which means rotation of guys on the field. We have 4 starters at safety, one of which is the most knowledgeable of Lou's system, which you think is the odd man...
They may want to, but I can't imagine them giving anyone in that room a starting job without earning it, except Stone. I think we may see a lot of 3 safety looks and there may be a lot of rotation to keep guys fresh, along with Dax basically becoming the next Hilton.