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That’s the thing. If NFL teams really devalued next years picks, then we would be seeing mass swaps of future picks. Trade next years 1st round pick every year - it’s just a 2nd round pick after all - and load your team with players that have already proven themselves in the NFL.

Well if you’re friends with NFL GM’s then I won’t argue with you. I’ll be skeptical but I won’t argue. But in that case, we should be trading our next years 1st round picks every year for quality NFL players, since it’s only a 2nd round pick. Right?

According to who? Show me the NFL team that has released data on how they value trades. It doesn’t exist. Last we heard, NFL teams have all but scrapped that old chart in favor of proprietary charts they make in house and you don’t have access to. No one said it wasn’t a 2nd. You seem to be fighting a battle that isn’t in contention. Though the old chart is useless now since teams have changed it and we don’t know the new values, it probably is *somewhere* around a high to mid 2nd round pick. But all I said was the Chiefs got hosed and I stand by that. The funny part is that if you go to ChiefsPlanet, they say the same thing. Top 5 money and a plethora of picks for a mediocre LT that was the weak link in their line. .

Trey Smith was taken with the pick you got from Carolina. You can try to rationalize it because KC selected Bolton, but the fact is that they could have taken Bolton with the #31 pick too. In all, KC gave up a 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th in exchange for a medicare LT that gave up 11 pressures in the playoffs a 2nd and a 6th. And they only got that mediocre player for 2 years and one of those years they had to pay him top 5 money. Your own fans at ChiefsPlanet know the trade sucked. There’s a whole thread about it. There was no “pro bowl quality LT” about it. He’s painfully mediocre and i’m very happy Cinci overpaid him.

I’m not discounting a draft pick because it was next years instead of this years. It was a 5th round pick.

I agree the players lost the game, but an honorable mention must go toward whichever coach made the decision to play 10 yards off the Cinci WR’s. Watching Reid and his coaching staff play press man the following week against those same WR’s was an indictment. Still would have lost, but it’s not a good look.

I think you mean the Rams. Who beat the Bengals in the SB last year and then we’re awful last season. But it’s the same argument fans keep trying to make so they stay in a state of peaceful denial. Regular season accomplishment's are for the birds. Think about what you just wrote and how sad it is. You’re clinging onto the hope offered by a Week 1 game where we beat up a team that ended up being quite bad.

Then you purposefully omitted it. Which is even worse than forgetting. It’s being dishonest. No. The 5th round pick went to Baltimore. KC gave up a 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th round pick.

You forgot the 3rd, 4th and 5th picks they gave up too. As far as “cost controlled” goes… he had the 2nd highest base salary of all LT’s in the NFL last season. And the 5th highest cap hit of all LT’s. For an average linemen. KC got hosed.

Not because of Orlando Brown. Considering he gave up 11 pressures in the playoffs lol. To put that into perspective, Trent Williams gave up 15 pressures ALL SEASON. Brown gave up, in 3 playoff games, nearly what other linemen give up in an entire season. But yeah, he’s the reason Reid won the SB. lol. This is great for us. So foolish of the Bengals. .

Orlando Brown isn’t a bad LT. He’s mediocre and he’s not worth what Andy Reid foolishly gave up for him. He got taken to the cleaners.

You might like the smiths, in case you haven’t listened to them.

If you look at the ignorance that fills this world, we should be thankful when people disagree with us. Fools in disagreement are still fools.

If you fought Mike Tyson in his prime, you would look uninspired too. It doesn't mean you weren't focused. Or that you were drained before the fight. It would be because he's that much better. We all like to ignore it, but the Bengals were well on their way to blowing us out BEFORE the damar injury. They were up 7-3 and driving with ease again.

You're such a gentlemen. We need more posters like you.

Excuses. We lost because the Bengals are the better team right now. From coaches to players.

The Bills will be his 4th team in 6 seasons. This is not a situation of poaching an unheralded good WR off of a stud-filled team. This is a situation of being another stop in a journeymen's journey. Those adjustments should have been made during the season. When it actually counts. Davis is barely an average #3. Let alone a "very good" #2.

Patriots had a lower winning % against the AFC than they did against the rest of the NFL.

I like this signing.

Fins coaches didn't seem to...

This. He has done a wonderful job from the perspective of the owners.

Trent has now been on 4 teams in his 6 year career. He was with the 49ers for 1 year and they chose to let him leave rather than re-sign him for peanuts. While you were watching him with your friend, you saw him catch 9 passes. NINE. The entire season. And that’s why you think it’s a good signing? Sometimes I can’t tell if some of you are being serious or just trolling. Oh wow. So his “I watch every 49er game was impressed with him” was just complete nonsense. He started 1 game and had 9 receptions all season and that’s why New Era came away impressed with. By those standards, he must have thought Kelvin Benjamin was an absolute stud.

I know they were leading AND driving again, when the game ended.

The amount of denial in some posters comments is genuinely sad. Yes, they walked right down the field. They went nearly 70 yards in 2 minutes and 26 seconds. You're trying to make it sound better than it was The Bengals had 2 plays on that drive and went 21 yards in those 2 plays. Woopee! They were averaging over 10 yards per play on that drive youre trying to downplay. They were, again, walking right down the field when Damar got injured. Yeah and they were about to be down 14-3 in the first quarter of that first game. The Bengals were physically overwhelming the Bills in that first game. Their TE rubbed Taron's face so hard into the turf that he literally left the game.