8 hours ago
(8 hours ago)Luvnit2 Wrote: You miss my point, they are reaching based an opinion you formed by looking at rankings provided from different sources.
It was very apparent the Bengals got their top 2 targets, Stewart and Knight were ranked higher and determined a fit by the DC, nit some random ranking system.
If those rankings were so accurate, they would not miss ever on a top 15 pick, yet we know they miss every year because it is hard to be right in the top 15 and gets hard the further we get from the top 15.
The Bengals wanted Knight plain and simple. The Bengals felt Knight would be long gone by pick 81 so a ranking srevice may be correct also, he could be a 3rd round pick on their ranking, but we had 17th pick in round 3, not the first pick.
As I have mentioned, Knight was ranker higher than Martin and he was taken 75th, so likely Knight would have been gone by our pick. That is not a reach, that is making sure you get your main 2nd round pick since he was available.
Look we had Trey and Pratt 2 guys that mentioned a trade. We took 2 players that one production said not to take at 17 and the other consesus ranking said not to take at 49. We have bypassed better players to fill our areas of need and thats not where we want to live. We want to draft best available not need. Now we can say they were our best available but then we are clearly letting need effect our rankings and that is not a good situation.
I heard we had
Knight
Ratledge
Wintson
As our top 3 in rd 2 and winston makes it to rd 3 but we bypass him for Fairchild. Now I wanted a guard and like Fairchild but why is our need surpassing our board. It's insightful not just there but our picks thru out the whole draft thus far.
