8 hours ago
(9 hours ago)ERIC1 Wrote: oh really..Stewart is questionable? do you know that if stewart had gotten 5-6 sacks he would have been drafted in the top 5..the guys disrupts almost every play and maybe did not get the sacks but had the opposing quarterback running for his life all the time..Knight is an ok linebacker? reoprts I have read different from your assessment..Faitrchild is as solid as they come ..you give the draft a D because those chosen were not the players you wanted
People complaining about the picks is not because they are not theyre personal favorite players. It's because of some major red flags.
Stewart has some major production failures and it's not just sacks. The lowest TFL production of a drafted DE since 2000. His QB hits put him in the 3rd lowest percentile. He shows poor play awareness and plays chaotically. All this and we had 1 meeting with him at the combine that Stewart himself said he didn't remember meeting with us. This isn't about Golden liking him this pick is 100% saying goodbye to Trey there is no world we keep Trey after spending two 1st rd picks over the last 3 years at that position.
Knight may end up being a good player and I like him as a player although I didn't pay too much attention to him. The problem is we completely ignored the consesus board. Which to some degree I'm okay with if Golden likes the player but when we are talking a completely rd+ lower grade on a player that is 25 years old that's a bit too much of a red flag. We could've had Ratledge. Heck we most likely could've gone Ratledge, Knight and the Fairchild in the 4th.
The sad thing is I'm no scout and certainly to draft expert. But I honestly think I could handle this offseason draft better than the Bengals have just by following the board consensus/production athletic metrics.
1:Harmon
2:Ratledge
3:Winston
4:Knight( as I believe with his age he is available here)
As far as the offseason just change contracts slightly to lower contract hits this year so you can resign Trey and done.
