oldschooler Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spicoli Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 that's a great read....thanks for posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Tigre Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 If ands and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spicoli Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 10 minutes ago, Le Tigre said: If ands and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas. and thank you for that Dave Lapham lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turningpoint Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 So we should probably drafted Dez bryant and possibly Decastro of over zeitler. I don't think we would have taken AJ at #4 if we had Dez. I also wonder how Dez would have dealt with Andy Dalton in 2011. Dez also wasn't much of an upgrade over marvin Jones IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omgdrdoom Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 Our draft position and team needs would obviously both change if we had different players on the team than what happened in reality. I understand articles like this are more on the "just for fun" side of things, but IMO it doesn't even interest me in that regard because of how much would drastically change just by taking Dez over Gresh when we had the huge hole at TE. Not only would it change future drafts, but it would also change who else was taken in the later rounds of those same draft years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleEarl Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 7 minutes ago, omgdrdoom said: Our draft position and team needs would obviously both change if we had different players on the team than what happened in reality. I understand articles like this are more on the "just for fun" side of things, but IMO it doesn't even interest me in that regard because of how much would drastically change just by taking Dez over Gresh when we had the huge hole at TE. Not only would it change future drafts, but it would also change who else was taken in the later rounds of those same draft years. Not only did we have a huge hole at TE, but Dez Bryant had/has a big character cloud that hangs over him. Something the Bengals definitely didn't need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredtoast Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 This is silly when it involves projecting the Bengals taking guys who were not even on the board.If they somehow could determine who we would have taken based on who was available when we picked then it might makes some sense, but this is just a waste of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omgdrdoom Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 7 minutes ago, fredtoast said: This is silly when it involves projecting the Bengals taking guys who were not even on the board.If they somehow could determine who we would have taken based on who was available when we picked then it might makes some sense, but this is just a waste of time. Even if they only chose players available at the time I still don't think it would be worth the time to try to make sense of it. If we take Dez over Gresh, we probably need another TE in the 2nd/3rd, which could mean no Dunlap. If we don't take Dunlap in the 2nd, our defensive line looks completely different for years to come. Just the very first change of Dez over Gresh alters the entire landscape of the team and we'd probably have 90%+ starters being different players than the Bengals we see now in 2016/2017. What if taking Dez + 8 different players in the later rounds in the 2010 draft makes us win 2 extra games? Lose 2 extra games? Who knows. It changes everything. Hell, I don't even know why I'm spending 5 minutes thinking about this. Like you said, waste of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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