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James, we will grade the Cincinnati Bengals draft class and I'll talk about
my criteria. You can talk about what went into the grades for you if
you like. But a Marius Men's to start things off here, where are
you? Well? Amrius starts with an A and it gets an A and
it's pretty simple. The Bengals they don't have and haven't had a physical print,
a presence like a Marius Mims Andrew Whitworth left at twenty sixteen. It's
it and he is different. And the fact that in the span of what
fourteen months, you get Orlando Brown junior at left tackle and you get this
kid and Amarus Mims, who is going to be following around Orlando and learning
from Orlando for not just this year, but multiple years. That's the exact
site the type of setup that you want. So even if you're worried about
his experience. I think that this is the ideal scenario, the ideal situation.
Oh and by the way, everyone hates Frank Pollack, right, that's
big among the fan base. Frank Pollack stinks, that's what everyone's saying.
Well, now he at least has a first round tackle to work with,
in a first round tackle that he can groom. And from a talent perspective,
they brought in veterans, and I think those veterans have played fine,
but they haven't given him this. And outside of Billy Price, who he
coached for one year and then he was off to the Jets and it was
kind of weird, right because of the coaching change, Frank hasn't had this
in Cincinnati. So I think it makes sense to give Frank Pollack an elite
talent and see what happens with it. I also think that a Marius Mimms's
ceiling is as high as any offensive tackle in this draft. I think his
floor is higher than a lot of people give him credit for. I think
he's going to work hard, and someone at that size six eight three forty
if he works hard, I think at worst he's a solid pass protector lead
at this level, which is a pretty good fit in Cincinnati. So this
is an a for me. Yeah, come in just a hair lower.
And the way that I think about this is a few ways. One of
them is does this suggress in need? I think it does. There's a
long term need for the Cincinnati Bengals to tackle. They have needed for a
long time athleticism and high end talent on the offensive line in front of Joe
Burrow. They get that on a cost control basis with the Marius Mims.
So yeah, they hit a need here. It's not a pressing starter need
per se, but it is a long term need. They needed to improve
depth and we've been asking for them to add athleticism and talent to this offensive
line group since Joe Burrow was drafted. So in that sense, I like
that about the pick, and then I think about the floor in the ceiling.
You mentioned that the floor is maybe a little bit higher than some people
think. He does need to prove that the injury stuff is behind him,
and there's no reason to think it's not. But he needs to prove that
he can stay on the field. You know, we all saw Nick Saban
question his football toughness. I guess when he took himself out of the game
when he aggravated that ankle injury. I'm not sure how sure how much I
buy that Nick Saven talking about arrival of course in the SEC Championship game playing
for Georgia. But between the ankle injury and the hamstring injury, you just
need to make sure that he can stay healthy again. I think he can.
It's a small amount of the risk baked into the profile. The other
bit of the risk is he inexperienced, and when you look at his tape,
there's some things to clean up from a technical perspective. But as I've
said on this show a few times, natural pass protector, the pass pro
footwork looks great already. That's what the Bengals care about more than anything else.
There's just a little bit of risk in this pick where you can see
that maybe he doesn't end up being a top end player in the league.
I think he probably should. It's a B plus for me because you can
see that the top end is an A plus and we might look back on
this in a couple of years and say, yeah, he hit that top
end. He's a great offensive tackle, maybe the best right tackle in this
draft class. Then you're more than justified. But when you bake in the
risk a little bit, that's what brings it down just a hair for me.
The other thing is is should you be able to get an A with
every pick? This is a philosophical thing. Maybe you should say he should
be graded against the other options and for the guys that were available. The
only other guys I would argue for the Bengals in that pick were Johnny Newton,
who went much later in the second round, and maybe Quinnyaon Mitchell a
couple picks later, the cornerback going to the Philadelphia Eagles. But for the
Bengals, hard to knock taking a tackle here. Like I said, I
like the need, I like the fit. I like that he doesn't have
to play right away. It's just is it the best value? Is it
the the risk? Those are the things that bring it from an A to
a B plus for me, still really close to an A. I still
think it's a good pick, and I'd like the upside a lot. Man.
You hedged about fifty two times to make sure that people understood that you
like this pick. No, I mean I get it. I do.
I think that his floor is like Trent Brown, I'll just slo that's a
hell of a floor. That's better than any offensive lineman they've drafted in like
a decade. Hopefully the floor doesn't include Trent Brown's availability. And he's much
more healthy over his career than Trent Brown has been, in no doubt,
and in the health part. That's that's ever we're about to talk about health
for all of these guys, including Chris Jenkins, who we should get to
the Bengals. You mentioned Johnny Newton. By the way, the bengalside Chris
Jenkins right underneath Johnny Newton on their Day two board. They weren't really considering
him at that eighteen spot. I do think he was a trade down candidate
and they might have had a first round grade on him, certainly high on
their board. So it was Chris Jenkins and they felt really good about the
pick. And what's not the like about the pick? I gave it a
B plus. I just think it's all the round, solid like everything about
it. I think there's the risk profile, there's no real risk. I
think he's going to be a hit. I think the character wise fits.
I think he's going to be a captain by year three probably. I think
he has the right energy, the right vibe, the right talent to play
right away and be a run stopper for sure. And maybe he does have
a bit more as a pass rusher that we haven't seen because there's some untapped
athleticism there. There's really nothing that you can't like about this pick to me
at least. And the other element is it obviously does feel a need both
short term and long term. B plus solid all the way around, like
an eighty eight percent good stuff on Christie. Yeah, solid B for me.
I would have liked to have seen the Bengals be aggressive here trade up
for Johnny Newton. We know the price to get right in front of that
pick because we saw a team trade up there. It would have been expensive.
That's how much higher Johnny Newton was in my mind than Chris Jenkins was.
But I know that that wasn't the case for the Bengals the other alternatives
here. I'm fine with Chris Jenkins pick. I would have considered perhaps Zach
Frasier with that pick, just because there's your center of the future. He
could play guard for you right away. I think out of West Virginia and
he goes to the Steelers a couple picks later. The other thing that I
think you can debate and we'll be watching over time is Chris Jenkins versus Michael
Hall's career. The Bengals later go with the nose tackles, So would you
rather have a player with more pass rushing upside? Here? That being said,
I do like the Chris Jenkins pick. I'd like, as Steve Paulozola
talked with us about yesterday, the run defense, playmaking ability for Chris Jenkins,
a block destruction, getting off blocks, all things of Bengals badly needed.
And he improves their GT three immediately and should improve it significantly if he
can hit the ground running. And I love the personality. I love the
way that he interacted with the media when he arrived in town. The positivity,
the willingness to eat a bunch of Skyline chili if you needed to get
to his dad's weight and play nose tackle at three forty or whatever. It
was so really love the personality. Could certainly see him being a captain in
short order, and they needed some leadership and so if that's part of what
they get with Chris Jenkins, that's an upgrade for the pick. As well.
Yeah, And honestly, if they had gone with my call and I
liked the player, this isn't revisions history. But you talk about two guys
that are young and haven't played a ton, and that you wonder availability wise
in all of those things, it would just be tying it in there.
But no, I think they wanted more of a guy that could play every
down and I'm sure they looked at my call and said he's not a three
down guy and they know it. Chris Jenkins can be. He can be,
He's not yet and he needs to get there. And if he does
that again, we'll look back on this pick and we'll see an A.
Let's get to those two third round picks to the beginning of Day three coming
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note on a Marius Men's really quick that I forgot to mention earlier before we
get to the day three guys, This was apparently known and I just saw
it yesterday. But the Athletics Nate Taylor reporting that the Chiefs tried to trade
up for Marius Men's before settling and trading up for Xavier Worthy insteads So she'll
probably give the Bengals some brownie points for sniping I guess sort of making sure
that they got a Marius Vince and the Chiefs did not you know what the
world would have been. Oh my god. The Chiefs have a Marius memes
that Patrick Mahomes has his left tackle of the future. By the way,
he did play left and right tackle at Georgia in practice, rotated all the
time, didn't flinch when we asked him if he was comfortable playing both.
So that's what he's going to do obviously for the Bengals. But yeah,
can you imagine can you imagine the press home franchise left tack? Chiefs go
aggressive and point is is it's a hell of a prospect and they're all risks.
Billy Price was the safest pick in a decade, right, No,
not right wrong, And so Amarus Mims has those physical traits, just overwhelming
physical traits and obviously some good film to back it up when he was on
the field. So I'm glad you pointed that out because I didn't see that
until Tuesday morning. That being said, we got to get to use at
day three. It's round three, baby, in the biggest three. Maybe
I messed it up anyway. You s to get surprise, but biggest surprise
he's got to be Jermaine Burden And I'm still kicking myself. I can't believe
I didn't consider it more and I don't think we did. We know he
had a Top thirty with the Bengals. I don't think we knew that part
that would have thrown us obviously in the right direction. He had six top
thirty visits, including Cleveland in Cincinnati. But this pick, we obviously know
about the character stuff and the maturity stuff, and multiple schools Georgia Alabama in
college, but multiple high schools, the storming the field incident where he allegedly
hit a woman who stormed the field, and all of the things that go
into that, Like there's just there's a ton there of speculation about the off
the field character and then obviously the storming the field incident, we have a
better account of that. Being said, the reason why I like the pick
and the reason why I understand it is one, what's the point of having
this awesome culture if you can't bring someone in and get them in the mix
in tune with your culture. Remember the Patriot way, it was such a
thing, a Patriot way. Well, Belichick would bring in guys like this
all the time, and like veterans that were that weren't young impressionable guys that
could come into the culture. So Zach Taylor clearly wanted this guy. I'm
sure that the scouting departm I'm sure everybody did. But Zach Taylor clearly one
of this guy. And it's easy to see why. And if they did
all this homework on him and met with him and then brought him in for
a top thirty visit and they feel like he does fit culture wise and they
will be able to get the most out of them or out of him.
Who am I to say otherwise? They haven't done this during the Zach Taylor
arrow much and so we'll see. This is a good test, but on
field wise, and the reason why I give this at B plus is because
he's the perfect fit. He can do everything the Bengals want. Whatever receiver
they were going to draft this year, whatever they wanted him to do,
Burton can do it. And I think he fits well with even the young
guys andre Yosavasch and Charlie Jones. It's not just Jamar Chason T. Higgins.
He fits well with the entire receiver room. I think he's going to
get the most snaps, third most snaps, I would say out of those
receivers, and so he's going to make an instant impact. He's going to
bring you a dynamic that you haven't had. There is some risk, but
there's also some value, and that risk and value bounced out some and that's
why I give this a B plus. And Lord knows I love receivers,
so there might be a little curve there. Baby, Yeah, I'll go
be here as well. I think I'm just a sterner greater than you in
general, no surprise, there is there no surprise or you just I don't
know. I don't know how you couldn't give Amarus Smims an A. But
anyways, go ahead. Yeah, no, I mean there's no surprise.
I still don't. I listened to you for five minutes. I have no
idea. I'm a harder greater than you. Yeah. Well, part of
it is, like we'll see rock Powers would have been as trading up for
Johnny Newton would have been an A for me. So like there are things
if they didn't consider or weren't available to them, that I would consider an
A. So I'm just grading on in a different way. Perhaps, what
would you have done if they had passed on Brock for a Marius. I
don't know, Like what would you you would be given like a Marius,
like a b B like it would be lower, he'd be docked, right.
I don't think he's just like if I were consistent with what the way
I'm thinking about it, he's shouldn't be gotcha. I'm just curious because I
think they would have passed on Brock. There's a little nugget. I think
they would have passed on Brock for Mims. I do. I'm pretty confident
in that. So Jamae Burton, the offside is at least you've gotten a
player one round later than he could have been drafted if he was clean off
the field. At least I can't wait to tell you my comps go ahead,
keep going, which is? Which is? What you love about that
pick and the ability to add this vertical, explosive receiver awesome could be an
easy running mate for Jamar Chase cost controlled for four years. Love that very
next pick. Christian Hayes would have loved to see an interior offensive lineman here
as well. Christian Haines twenty four years old, though, so is that
something to put them off there? The other offensive lineman that went in this
range on the interior because there's a little bit of a run between Burton and
McKinley Jackson, Zach Center and Dominic Pooney both twenty three, twenty four,
twenty four years old. So Burton giving you a potential wide receiver in the
future and it's only down because of the of the risk. Can he keep
it together? Can he stay focused in Cincinnati? Because if he can,
there's easy wide receiver two upside and you love that fit with Jamar Chase.
It's just Kenny keep it together, stay focused, stay on the field,
and keep football, you know, as his priority, and do all the
things that you need to do to play in the NFL at a high level.
Yeah, I think he's going to give them an element that they haven't
had in the Floor, And the Floor is obviously character aside, it's almost
like health like. Of course, he needs to be on the field and
mature and doing the right things off the field to be successful. But I
think the Floor, if he does that, is like Kenny stills like the
Floor, where he's this deep threat, the straight line guy that's going to
help you some and be that for you. And in round three, that's
not the end of the world the ceiling though. Is he Terry McLaurin,
Is he Doug Baldwin? Is he one of these Round three guys that by
week five of the NFL season has three touchdowns And you're like, oh,
oh, this dude, this dude's gonna matter And he very well could be.
And I think he fits this offense really really well. And so yeah,
I like the pick was shocked. Again. We just next year,
I'm looking at all the questionable character guys and no, I'm just kidding.
I'm not going to overadjust too much, but it is interesting. I also
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quick note about pick eighty and it would have fallen in line I think in
an ideal world, and it has to do with McKinley Jackson, and I
might have said it on the pod. I think Devandre Sweat was very much
in play for the Bengals, which I got that one wrong too, not
in play at forty nine, So it's not like, oh, if he
had fallen nine or eleven picks, because man, the Titans took him at
his ceiling. Man, they took him like that that in it last month
didn't have or earlier this month didn't happen. They did at thirty eight.
But if he was there at eighty. I think the Bengals would have picked
and Andre Sweat at eighty and then they would have sweated it out hoping that
Jermaine Burton was there at ninety seven. I think that was very much in
play. It didn't happen, of course, because he got picked thirty eighth
overall, so it might not even be worth noting, but I do think
it is worth noting and mentioning that. I do think that there was a
real shot at the Bengals pick to Andre Sweat with their first third round pick.
It is good context because instead the Bengals picked McKinley Jackson, who's a
massive consensus reached, probably their biggest consensus consensus reach in the draft, and
a refa set. I just set harsh grad up. I just set you
up to just boom dunk on them. I didn't mean to do that,
but go no, I mean it is what it is. Right. They
can't all be winners, and I'm rooting for them, right like I'm rooting
for all these picks. I'm rooting for the Bengals to be more correct than
me on all of these just to be abundantly clear about that. But McKinley
Jackson reach on the consensus board and a Refassan's research on consensus boards, which
is something he spends a lot of time on every year, says that consensus
reaches tend to be real reaches and consensus value picks tend to not be real
value picks. So there's no such thing as a steal, but there is
such thing as a reach. Is on average what the research tells us,
because the NFL knows more than the consensus does for guys that fall and there's
a reason the guy that teams are passing on players in general, not that
they're always right, but it only takes one team to be wrong on a
reach, and it takes every team to be wrong on a faller. That's
the logic there, if that makes sense. So McKinley Jackson being a reach
that he is, he does fill a need. It's like a D plus
for me. He does have some athletic tools to work with. The first
step power is nice. He's going to be playing a different role in Cincinnati
from the one gaping that he did at Texas A and M, and he
needs to kind of figure out how to play controlled use his body type to
play nose tackle instead of trying to be a penetrating three tech gap shooter kind
of player for the Bengals, if they want him to be in that DJ
reader role at all, and he's the only body type on the team,
maybe not the only body type on the team, but probably the best player
on the team with that body type or the most investing player on that team
with that body type, he's going to be asked to play that role this
year and there will be that adjustment and he'll need to hit the ground running.
So again, hope the Bengals are right on this one and that he
develops quickly. But the nose tackles in this class. Everybody we talked to
coming into the draft was like, yeah, you can wait until late day
three, and the Bengals, i think, felt like they needed to get
one, They needed to get the one that they felt the best about,
and so they went with that. Here. It just feels like they went
with it a little bit earlier than they had to sure, and speaking of
that, just to show you how much they wanted it, I think he
was also in play at eighty right, So like the fact that he fell
in their minds to ninety seven. All right, Well, let's get our
guy, and so I give it a sea. I think it's it is
a reach. I think that it's something I wouldn't have done. At the
same time, we had Steve Polozolo on from Pro Football Focus yesterday and I
asked him right, well, who would you have taken? And the options
are answer answered on day three with whoever's there, and they clearly felt like
McKinley Jackson was better. Hopefully he is. I give it a c all.
Right, eric Al who not a surprise. We've talked about eric All.
They met with him with the top thirty visit, someone that on Bengals
Talk dot Com I mocked just around later. So I think the early factor
here Matters had a serious back injury at Michigan missed the twenty twenty two season.
Former captain. He is a Cincinnati native, went to Fairfield High School
and then was productive at Iowa last year kind of flashed a bit before tearing
his ACL in October. I like the talent. I think he can be
exactly what they're looking for at tight end. My question is health. I
think he can be the past catcher. I think he can be explosive enough
with the ball in his hand, so I think he can block at a
high level. Will he stay healthy? Huge question mark felt like a bit
early for me. And it's a dart throw, but it's a dart throw
you make in the fourth round, so there's some risk involved, there is
some upside involved. I think this is an average pick. I'll give it
a solid see. Yeah, I think c Plus, I'm actually a little
bit higher than you on this pick. But it is brought down by the
fact that it does feel early for eric All based on what we were expecting
in the draft. I just look at the players they passed on here.
They could have gone back to interior offensive line and still found some decent tight
end prospects later, maybe even eric All later. We're not sure where he
would have gone, of course, had the Bengals not picked him, but
Tanner, Borderlini, Mason McCormick, Jalen Wright all going in the next handful
of picks. So some guys that probably by consensus would have been higher,
they were higher on our board as well. So while I like the player,
I like the film, I like the upside. They might have a
solid tight end here and eric All if he develops and if he can and
stay healthy. And that's what brings it up for me a little bit.
Going a little bit early here again drops it just a little bit for me
with some players that I really liked and had some other positions going in the
next handful of picks. But then we're back to Josh Newton. The Bengals
pick at one, right in line with Consensus's hard to knock them for reaching
on this one. But what are your thoughts. I think when you talk
about a physical corner, someone that has good ball skills and intelligence, doesn't
have elite speed, I think has exactly what they're looking for from an AFC
North mentality perspective. Just talking with him a bit, he's he's got some
dog in him and he could have went earlier, like there were some that
especially a year ago, right, and these things change and fluctuate, But
he was held in pretty darn high regard, and so it's not crazy to
me to think a guy who could play inside outside has a here not only
to make the team. I think they do think he'll make the team,
but you know, be a building block. So I like it. I
do think that there's there were you know, interior offensive line. It's like
at some point can you can you get one? So when you talk about
who's on the board who you could take that that is a factor always when
you get to these picks. At the same time running back, that was
another one that I was thinking, like, well will they take one and
they wanted to get a corner. I'll give it a solid C plus as
well. So I think U, C and C plus. Day Day four
off to an average start for me Day four, Day three, Day three,
See you screwed me up with your Day three coming earlier. Yeah,
I gotcha. This is day baby, Josh Newton. Also see for me
solid corner depth. I think that's what you would expect to get with this
pick. See being an average pick. This this is an average pick I
think at this point in the draft. So totally fine with the pick.
I think he provides that good depth, He provides a great mentality, and
like you said, coming into the season, was was seen as a as
a higher graded prospect. There are some guys that I like better. You're
right, but not a ton Makai Wingo Quantes Stegger is a guy that we
talked about a ton last week going in that round between the Bengals, Wingo.
Then oh baby, I mean he goes so late, and maybe they
would have because he went what five picks before they picked Tanner McLaughlin, which
is a pick I really like, by the way, So this one's gonna
get a B plus for me. I think there is a legitimate chance for
him to make the team, for him to be a receiving tight end on
this team. I think the ability to get upfield and the speed really plays
up at tight end. He might be their best athlete in the tight end
room. Mike the Sickie maybe takes that title probably, but ran a four
to six to one and it has some really nice receiving abilities. So I
like this pick. I think he can be a contributor and he can help
make that tight end room something that goes from a hole on the team to
something that's a solid position on the team. Yeah. I love that you
mentioned the pass catching part because he's really really good at it, and he's
a good athlete, and he's twenty five and needs to get in the weight
room, gets stronger from a blocking standpoint, and show that he can earn
that trust as a blocker, and so twenty five has the pass catching prowess
that they're looking for. I totally get it, but there's some obvious flaws
there and that's why he was there, that's why he filled down some draft
boards. I think he'll make the team. I do, and so this
is a solid pick. But again me harsher than you that I knew I
would be. This is what's funny is earlier in the show. Oh you're
a harsh No. I gave it a C. I think it's average.
I think he's tight end four this year. If eric All is healthy,
he's buried because eric All is a better prospect. Whuenhealthy and maybe you think
they should have just taken the risk on Christian Mahogany at that point. Who
falls all the way to pick two ten to Detroit and talking about inter your
offensive line. And that's that's the point for this next pick too. The
Bengals go with the athletics Cedric Johnson, who didn't necessarily have the production you
would like at ole Miss, but is a athlete. This one is just
a solid see for me. We'll see if he can be anything in the
NFL. We'll see if he can make the team. I would have liked
bo Limmer here again going to the interior offensive line a little bit early,
even though I really liked the guy they took, you know, twenty picks
later on the interior offensive line. But there's upside with Cedric Johnson. It's
just can he make the team? Can he put it together? I think
this is one of the harder, harder paths to actually making the roster.
As we get to the end of the draft, you would expect to see
that, and I think it starts here with Cedric Johnson, no doubt.
I mean, it's a deeper defensive end room, even though silly Trey Hendrickson
trade request aside. So yeah, I give this a B plus because it's
a guy who produced at a young age athletic. You're talking about a sixth
round now, pick two, fourteen, and this might be your Joseph o
Cy replacement in the year. You know, this guy right away is competing
with who Jeff Gunter, and you know those guys will probably be on the
practice squad. You're right, it's gonna be hard to make the team,
but who knows, maybe he does. You never know what happens. But
I like the swing at this stage of the draft, and at the same
time. You're right, Matt Lee wouldn't have minded it. Let's just do
both seventh round picks. Now, that's fine, We'll do Dejhon Anthony real
quick. So back to back, Ole, Miss What well, what you
talked into? A C plus on Cedric Johnson? Yeah, it's just worth
it at this stage. And it's like an edge rusher. What if he
ends up being a rotational edge piece, Like if he does that, that's
a huge win. You like the athletic dice roll here. Yep, exactly
so Die john Anthony, first seventh round pick. We knew they had met
with him, we knew he was on their radar, special team er,
maybe maybe plays a little nickel certainly safety as well. Its gonna be tough.
We'll see if he can make the team. It's gonna be depending on
those things. I think it's a C plus for me, just slightly.
It basically averaged slightly above it because I do think he can help on special
teams and there might be some nickel upside as well. Yeah, just the
same for me. Don't really know how this makes an impact short term,
long term developmental players, special team player guy. They really liked the guy
they targeted guy they brought in. That's great see for me until I see
otherwise. Brendan Rice going the very next pick, jaheem Bell going a few
picks later. I know they need to picked a couple tight ends at that
point, Rice Rice. What caused Rice to fall so far, I don't
know, is very curious. I'm willing to take that dice roll in the
seventh town. I'm also very willing to take the dice roll on Matt Lee.
This is the A for me, a top one hundred player on our
board. Loved the athletic center, second athletic offensive line, and hope he
has every opportunity to make this team as a backup center. I think he
can be a starter of the future. Really like this pick yep Athletic.
I would have been fine with him picking him pick one nine where Tarna McLaughlin
went, just to give you an idea, so you get him forty three
picks later and multiple selections later for your team. I like it. Good
pass blocker athletic A for me as well. I think Trey Hill needs to
have a big camp. The downside is he's not versatile, and that's that's
what sucks is you wait until round seven and you're getting a center only.
Some of these other interior linement we mentioned could have done both, but overall
that is an A for me in my overall grade. Jake, I think
it's a solid B. It's right there. It's that there's upside for this
draft to be a set the table draft, much like twenty twenty was with
Burrow and Higgins and Wilson. Where we look at it, we're like man
that set the table for a run. And there's also some risk involved in
a lot of these picks, and so the answer somewhere in the middle.
So I think it's a B right now with a ton of upside and some
downside. Yeah, B minus for me just looking at all the grades and
running the masks. So Harsh, Well, that's just how it works out
when I when I do the math and wait a little bit for the early
rounds, because it would have been a C if I didn't wait heavy for
the early rounds, and those are the more so harsh. I'm just saying,
you're harsh. I don't know. It's tough, teacher. We could
look back and say these picks hit the upside. This is an A plus
draft. Yes, that's part of this that you like, it's also the
part of this that you don't like because it feels like a home run or
a strikeout, and there's there's not a whole lot of middle ground there.
I'm sure there is more middle ground than that, but it feels very boom
or bust, so very risky approach. That's what brings it down. But
if these guys do hit the ceilings that we think they can based on their
on tapeability, then they could have some cornerstone players. They could have up
to six starters in this draft class, so a lot that you could like
if it works out. But it's a big if and that's what brings it
down a little bit for me for a lot of those picks, and overall,
even though I like the swings they took and if they do hit,
the aggressiveness will have really paid off. We've got some more post draft reaction
this week to get to. We're gonna talk to Mike Potts from the Cincinnati
Bengals about the draft. We're gonna talk to Trevor Sikhima from Pro Football Focus
about the draft in some episode coming up soon as well here on Lockdown Bengals.
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