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I saw the Bengals gave Geno Atkins #97 jersey to Stewart. He better not fuck up the mojo that jersey brings !! I'm hoping Atkins' mojo is passed along to him.

I was hoping his brother would have gotten drafted before him. That would have been priceless. I don't care one way or another about where he got drafted, but I was never a fan of his either and had consistently said he hasn't done anything to get drafted so high. A high completion percentage and your last name just isn't enough. Then there was the huge draft party, custom built room just for the draft, everyone wearing dollar signs everywhere "$", and then nothing. My God that was priceless. My buddies kept texting me asking "Can you believe Sanders is falling?" to which I responded, "Yes, you lead your team to a 9-4 record, don't win your conference, get blasted in your bowl game, have your dad/head coach convince the school to retire your jersey for doing the previously mentioned, then have coaches calling you "Brash" and "Entitled" during the Combine interview process. Does that sound like a QB you want your team taking in the top 3 of the draft or at all?". I got crickets.... I'm happy he's in Cleveland. I'm more upset the Steelers drafted QB Will Howard to be honest.

Stewart, Knight and Barrett all came from a base 4-2-5 defense while in college and we run that look often here. Not sure how much change we should expect with Golden. I’m refusing to buy into these guys can do it better than some of the others on the board when the Bengals went on the clock. Guard was a position we knew was going to be drafted early and we saw that, but color me unsettled with the thought of any of these guys cracking the starting line up as rookies. It sounds like previous o-line picks where we have starters that are no better than depth. Fairchild is most often described as raw and unrefined who may someday shape into a starting guard. Here he’s the starter from day one. Bad idea… I still don’t know who the fuck Jalen Rivers is. No wait, my bad… he was the o-lineman of the week in 2022 apparently. Whew !! Then there’s the running back. I know it’s a 6th round pick but this dude will not be making any type of impact this year. Maybe next year but who knows. There were players at positions of need still available I would have rather seen brought in to compete. Really displeased with what they came away with and am not buying into the reasoning for staying away from consensus players. Obviously I will be rooting come the fall but I don’t think they moved the needle much from last year.

I like the McLaughlin signing and I had Howard Cross in some of my early mocks. Could be worse.

The thing with consensus players is they had to actually do something to get to that point. I watch a lot of college football and really look into players prior to the draft. I have no idea who the fuck Jalen Rivers is. When considering others players still on the board, it’s easily the worst pick in my opinion.

In retrospect, they could have this: 1st- LB, Jihaad Campbell 2nd- OG, Tate Ratledge 3rd- S, Kevin Winston Jr. 4th- DE, Jack Sawyer 5th- CB, Dorian Strong 6th- DT Aeneas Peebles If I had been in charge (Clearly I’m not) that’s how I would have wanted to go. It will be interesting to look back in a few years to see how it all plays out.

If you told me they would have gone LB, OG, LB, OG in rounds 2-5 and then finished with a RB, I would have laughed, but here we are. I’m not high on this draft at all and I “feel” like they reached and missed more often than not. I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt and truly feel like if they could just one of those guys on defense to make an impact in year one, we are right back in it. I’m concerned about the o-line AGAIN and would rather see them bring in Scherff, Risner or both rather than start these rookies.

Bring on the undrafted free agents !! OG Clay Webb DE Fadil Diggs TE Luke Lachey

Thought he got hurt which sapped all his speed? Think that’s why he fell so far. Maybe I’m thinking of someone else, but a RB in the 6th huh? Wow. Way to close it out Bengals.

Much better Lol

Why do I waste my time leading up to this moment when I know they are going to just sit back and let the draft happen to them? Imagine you are Joe Burrow and you want to learn more about the guy protecting you and you read things like… Non athletic Slow feet Stiff hips Below average base footwork Clunky mover Hell yeah, put him in coach.

Oh look another OG.

Ok if they want another DE, I like Swinson from LSU. DT Peebles.S Jaylen Reed. DE Baron. CB Strong. CB Burke. S Crawford. Well forget Swinson

Yeah he will be going on 30 when his rookie deal is up.

Fucking two LB’s and neither of them who I wanted. Don’t know why I’m paying attention at this point. The trend of sitting back and seeing what comes to you and being seemingly clueless to what’s happening in the draft continues. Is someone’s kid making these picks?

I don’t think he sucks but he’s not who I wanted the most early and others I would have been equally happy with later. Just less than thrilled.

I just think it’s odd that most viewed him as a depth pick and we make him a starter from day one. Im not mad but the less than thrilled feeling continues. There were better players to be had.

I want to love what they have done through the first three rounds but I’m very blah about the whole thing. As fans we fall in love with certain players and simply expect the team is going to see it the same way, but that’s just not reality. They addressed DE, LB and OG. When looking at that, there’s a lot to be excited about. Then you see the names and you left wanting more. it will be interesting to see how it all turns out, but in comparison we could have had a draft that looked like: 1st round- LB Jihaad Campbell 2nd round- DE Mike Green 3rd round- S Kevin Winston Hell there are a handful of other variations I would have preferred to what we got. Green, Ratledge and Winston and even more. We just have to put all faith in what Golden wants to do with the defense and how waiting on the OG position works out. I wanted to come away feeling they killed it and I don’t. Maybe they all prove me wrong. Go new kids !!

I mean a linebacker. I should be jumping around going crazy. All I can seem to muster is…. Meh

No idea at this point.

He’s a Pratt clone. I just don’t think he was anywhere near best player available. Ratledge sitting there to help the o-line and they reach.

Yep Texans about to take Ratledge

Both Ohio State RB’s going helps us.

Hate what Cleveland is doing. Graham Schwesinger Judkins Good God…

Yes I do. Happy they took him because he was one of my favorite players.