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from your comfy place. The pick is in. The Cincinnati Bingals have made
a selection in the twenty twenty four NFL Draft. Alongside Lockdown College Football host
Spencer McLaughlin, I'm t nitri Vitis and we are joined by Deck Lisco of
Lockdown Bengals to break down the Bengals selecting Amarus Mems with the number eighteen Pickser
Jake Joe Burrow has been one of maybe the most banged up, beat up
qbs in the league over the last couple of seasons, So how important was
it for the Bengals to send help for Joe Cool? The Bengals were looking
for help offensive tackle today and the way that the draft went with four off
the board. We were kind of holding our breath as a pick approach,
looking at Bira Murphy and Amarus Mems as the top two options as far as
what we thought the Bengals would do, and we saw a cliff after a
Mariusmin's a tackle. So there's a bit of a sense of relief for my
perspective, at least when I'm thinking about what would be best for Joe Burrow
and the Bengals. I think there is a drop off from Amarus Men's who
will be a natural right tackle for this team, and Troy Fatani who goes
to the Pittsburgh Steelers a couple of picks later, And so for me,
I'm a fan of the pick. It was our highest rated tackle still available,
perhaps the last true first round offensive tackle option, and they have options
at tackle, Trent Brown being the free agent acquisition that allows Amarius Men's to
get some experience in the preseason and take some time to develop if he needs
it. He was very inexperienced at Georgia, obviously missing a lot of time
with injuries, so he has an opportunity to learn a little bit before he
needs to get onto the field. But that combination of size and athletic traits
is tantalizing for an offensive line in Cincinnati that has never had that kind of
upside in Joe Burrow's tenure. Now, like you said, limited experience,
but also Amarus Mims was part of arguably the best O line in the nation
at Uga last season and really the last couple of seasons. But when you
see that in him, what do you think having an experience like that with
a program that focuses so much on having good guys in the trenches, what
can that help for Mems to bring to the table. Well, it looks
like he's already pretty good despite the inexperience. There's not rawness to his game.
There are some areas obviously that need refinement. I think most tackles coming
out of college need refinement, especially that you pick at eighteen. But for
a guy that hasn't played as much as Amarius Men's, has missed time in
college and didn't get those reps, he looks very aware in past protection.
He understands a lot of what defenses are trying to do to him and trying
to do to the protection scheme that he's a part of as part of that
unit in Georgia's front. So the Bengals like to go to these big programs,
they like to go to college football playoff teams. They do that again
with the Marius Men's where despite the inexperience, what is on tape with a
very impressive college football playoff game against Ohio State in twenty twenty two for example,
being part of that portfolio. For mens there isn't necessarily the kind of
rawness you would expect for a guy that's played as little as Men's has played,
and despite that, he still has the upside. And so you compare
him maybe to a guy like Tyler Geyton, who has a lot of athletic
traits, has great size and similar level of inexperience. But to me,
he looks like he needs more refinement in terms of hand placement, in terms
of some of his footwork at the end NFL level, where Men's looks a
little bit more developed at least in the passing and passing part of his game.
His past that's look pretty developed to me. But more on the Bengals.
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Spencer He's absolutely right, Amary's men's limited in having nine stars, I think
total at uga and yet is one of the best offensive linemen out there.
What do you think makes them so good? He's the Josh Allen of offensive
tackles. You know, there's just a raw element or a raw amount of
traits that you can't teach. He's six seven, three forty to Nietri.
You can't coach that. I don't even know how you raised that, Frank,
I don't know where you buy clothes for that kid growing up or in
college. That's got to be a nightmare. And I mean, I don't
even talk about what has got to cost to feed him over the years.
He's probably taken in two three thousand calories an hour, perhaps. But that's
what makes him such an intriguing NFL prospect is the prototypical tackle size. He's
got the height and he's got the size. If you just coach him up,
if you get his technique to be refined, if you are able to
keep him in the sort of playing shape that you need, no reason he
can't be a really really high end NFL offensive tackle. For continuing coverage of
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