Bengals Draft Update

[pizza delivery]

Absolutely nothing's changed since February, despite relentless coverage suggesting otherwise.

I can help with all other teams in the NFL as well - Nothing's changed and we still don't know who will be drafted. For useless info in regards to all this, please see NFL Network.

[XUOWNSUC]

I really hope the Bengals don't go QB with the #4 pick overall. The QBs in this draft are not deserving of a pick that high. I also don't like WR at #4. You can find quality WRs later. Instead use the pick on the O-Line or D-Line where NFL games are won - in the trenches. Although, I'd be ok if they picked Peterson.

Hopefully Dalton will be there for the Bengals in round #2. That's the QB I like most.

Anybody else watch Gruden's QB camp? That show frickin rocks.

[XULucho27]

I really hope the Bengals don't go QB with the #4 pick overall. The QBs in this draft are not deserving of a pick that high. I also don't like WR at #4. You can find quality WRs later. Instead use the pick on the O-Line or D-Line where NFL games are won - in the trenches. Although, I'd be ok if they picked Peterson.

That would address a need and actually be a good pick. This makes too much sense and therefore they will do the complete opposite. Ryan Mallet at #4.... I can see it now.

[pizza delivery]

Other outlets of useless NFL draft talk:

ESPN
ESPN2
ESPN Radio
Fox Sports Radio

[drudy23]

Who cares

[gladdenguy]

I have never been this disinterested in an NFL draft in my lifetime.
Factors......Bengals suck and will suck forever and there might be no football this year.
I'm actually to the point that I am rooting for no NFL this year.
College football Saturdays are so much better anyway.

[XUOWNSUC]

I love the draft despite the Bengals being the bungles. I usually watch the whole thing on tv. I also buy Mel Kiper Jr.'s draft guide. Yes, I am dork.

[X-band '01]

I thought this was a beer thread introducing Bengals Draft - I guess I'm in the wrong place.

[pickledpigsfeet]

I love the draft despite the Bengals being the bungles. I usually watch the whole thing on tv. I also buy Mel Kiper Jr.'s draft guide. Yes, I am dork.

Don't worry, you're not alone, I do the same thing.

[stophorseabuse]

I thought this was a beer thread introducing Bengals Draft .

Overpriced and usually comes out flat.

[blobfan]

I thought this was a beer thread introducing Bengals Draft - I guess I'm in the wrong place.

Would that be an over-priced mock-beer? All bubbles, no buzz.

[pizza delivery]

I love the draft despite the Bengals being the bungles. I usually watch the whole thing on tv. I also buy Mel Kiper Jr.'s draft guide. Yes, I am dork.

Did you begin watching the 3 month long predraft show on NFL network?

I am really befuddled by the relentless coverage. The slow, awful grind of meaningless interviews, unsubstantial information.

[SixFig]

Did you begin watching the 3 month long predraft show on NFL network?

I am really befuddled by the relentless coverage. The slow, awful grind of meaningless interviews, unsubstantial information.

Totally agree.

Mel Kiper is ALWAYS wrong. Rarely makes an accurate pick. Yet ESPN keeps him on and adds a clone, Todd McShay.

I like the NFL, but a half hour on ESPN dedicated to who the Patriots MIGHT pick is obscene, especially when baseball, hockey, and basketball are going.

[bleedXblue]

i find myself getting caught up in this every year and then i remember that this team is run by the biggest moron in sports....Mike Brown.

[drudy23]

I have never been this disinterested in an NFL draft in my lifetime.
Factors......Bengals suck and will suck forever.

Then wouldn't that make you pretty disinterested most years?

Question for the draft watchers - not knocking, just trying to understand - what is the fascination with the draft after the first few players are taken? I just don't get it. Can you really spend two days being entertained by a man announcing people's names that you likely have never heard of? There's no way I could sit through that, I'd be bored out of my mind.

Unless it's really a cover to get drunk and get strippers.

[danaandvictory]

Unless it's really a cover to get drunk and get strippers.

When I lived out West I had a draft party every year -- and people came over because it was a convenient excuse to get hammered at 9:00 a.m. on a Saturday. By noon everyone was at the pool.

[nuts4xu]

College football Saturdays are so much better anyway.

I figured your sun rises and sets on Elder Stadium. I am a little surprised to hear a Panthers fan acknowledge other levels of football.

[pizza delivery]

Don't get me wrong, I like the draft. I'll even read a few mocks next weekend then watch some to wait for Bengals picks, but there have been probably 7,000 mocks and 70,000 redone mocks. It's beyond. Just like the NFL.

[blobfan]

When I lived out West I had a draft party every year -- and people came over because it was a convenient excuse to get hammered at 9:00 a.m. on a Saturday. By noon everyone was at the pool.

Now THAT'S a reason to get excited about the draft.

[GuyFawkes38]

There will be a draft this year.

But Roger Goodell questions if there will be a draft beyond this year, if the ruling eliminating the lockout stands (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704132204576285090526726626.html?m od=rss_opinion_main):


Under this vision, players and fans would have none of the protections or benefits that only a union (through a collective-bargaining agreement) can deliver. What are the potential ramifications for players, teams, and fans? Here are some examples:

• No draft. "Why should there even be a draft?" said player agent Brian Ayrault. "Players should be able to choose who they work for. Markets should determine the value of all contracts. Competitive balance is a fallacy."

• No minimum team payroll. Some teams could have $200 million payrolls while others spend $50 million or less.

• No minimum player salary. Many players could earn substantially less than today's minimums.

• No standard guarantee to compensate players who suffer season- or career-ending injuries. Players would instead negotiate whatever compensation they could.

• No league-wide agreements on benefits. The generous benefit programs now available to players throughout the league would become a matter of individual club choice and individual player negotiation.

• No limits on free agency. Players and agents would team up to direct top players to a handful of elite teams. Other teams, perpetually out of the running for the playoffs, would serve essentially as farm teams for the elites.

• No league-wide rule limiting the length of training camp or required off-season workout obligations. Each club would have its own policies.

• No league-wide testing program for drugs of abuse or performance enhancing substances. Each club could have its own program—or not.

As a libertarian who believes that the NFL is too socialist, that sounds awesome to me.

I also agree with the various stances of the NBA players' union.

It feels a little odd, but when it comes to sports unions, I'm a big supporter.

[GoMuskies]

I'd enjoy seeing the Cowboys finally not suck again.

[DoubleD86]

Then wouldn't that make you pretty disinterested most years?

Question for the draft watchers - not knocking, just trying to understand - what is the fascination with the draft after the first few players are taken? I just don't get it. Can you really spend two days being entertained by a man announcing people's names that you likely have never heard of? There's no way I could sit through that, I'd be bored out of my mind.

Unless it's really a cover to get drunk and get strippers.



I can't speak for anyone else, but for me (a huge draft nerd) I look at it a couple ways:
A) I am always looking for more sports information. I follow the draft for the same reasons I follow recruiting and minor league baseball and the MLB draft. I love sports, I love following sports, I love reading about and watching sports. I can't get enough.

B) Fantasy sports. I play an in depth football and baseball league where we have minor league systems and own the rights to college football players. I watch and read to be better informed and (hopefully) a better owner.

C) My dream is to work under a GM in either NFL or MLB. I want to be a personnel guy for a professional team. Part of that is because of my love for drafting and personnel decisions. Part of my love/interest comes from my professional desires. They fuel each other.

I know it is tough to explain or understand, but I love it. I love drafts, I love recruiting, I love following it and imagining what I would do.