Stripes

*Jumps ahead to April in my time machine* Okay, they did nothing of note. Proceed.

Totally fine with a LB at 33. Whether he's any good is a crapshoot, so whatever.

Yep. The Bengals have enjoyed more QB stability than the majority of the league, so I can only roll my eyes at the constant "Cincinnati is a QB black hole" bullshit in the media. While this franchise is far from perfect and deserves plenty of criticism, most of what the talking heads have to say is either straight from 1997 or based upon some irrelevant nugget they remember seeing on Hard Knocks. Clueless.

I wish I knew where everyone was getting all this confidence, but I'll just shrug and say "okay cool". Definitely works for me.

8-time Pro Bowler and 3-time All-Pro, and they still don't know who he is.

I would take a LB at 33. I won't complain about OL at any pick though apart from 1.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28526248/still-early-process-bengals-brass-refutes-espn-report-saying-intend-deal-top-pick "I don't know that any decision has been made for what we're going to do in April," Tobin told Bengals.com. "We're early in the process. We certainly haven't had any meetings to determine that at this point. Those will be meetings we'll have as we go through the process." I am rather annoyed by "we *certainly* haven't had any meetings [yet]...". Why the hell not?

Good good good. Just make sure you get our guy.

I am fine with Burrow skipping out. I just don't want the Bengals to even wave hello to Justin Herbert.

Terrified.

No.

Glad to hear it Jim. But how slow are you driving if it takes 3.5 hours? I live here too man, you can definitely shave off 60 minutes.

Anyway. Something else to talk about... literally anything... How about: When we are mocking the 7-round draft, who will be the goofy-ass Drew Sample pick of 2020? I hope it isn't at #33, but I know better than to hope. I have a weird intuition hitting me right now that it'll be a running back.

Burrow is the only one who'd put any butts in the seats. Not Burrow could very well remove MORE butts from the seats. Winning would bring them back eventually, but can this franchise really afford to wait around for the planets to align? Even with three first round picks I have zero confidence in their ability to put together something capable. I'm glad they seem to agree with the most obvious approach here.

It's really that simple.