9 hours ago
(9 hours ago)Luvnit2 Wrote: We have many fans who have never studied tape or watched or studied players who feel they know it all and the FO is stupid. They rely on mock drafts and so called experts like Kiper (who liked our picks) who said Sanders was best QB in tne draft who is undrafted after round 3.
Experts are great, but once you get past the first 15 guys, even experts differ. The further the draft gets away from the top 15, the less consensus on the value (draft position of players) of draftees. Fans also never take into account if they want a guy at 49, it iis very unlikely regardless of ranking it will be there 32 to 40 picks later, so teams that drat a guy mid second round at 49 like we did take the guy because he will have to make it through midway of the 3rd round.
The board GMs are. too enamored in rankings by round. They love to use them when a guy appears to be picked early, but then ignore it when a player like Stewart who was a #1 on every board and in some cases top 10 DE they don't like is picked.
Every fan is entitled to their own opinion, it just seems some fans would not be happy regardless of who we pick as it was not their choice.
What your describing there is called reaching. See we don't want to "reach" we want to follow the value in the early rounds. I don't claim to be an expert and when I don't consider to be an expert i tend to look to people that are or atleast have metrics that show how they reached theyre conclusion. Production, tape, athletic testing, age and the consesus board. When the Bengals fall so far out of these with they're picks we have to ask our the Bengals smarter than all of these markers or are they ignoring them and making dumb picks. It feels like an obvious answer to me. I know there are team and we don't want to believe it but that's what is happening.
