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Previous Five Picks 4) Oakland Raiders: DeSean Jackson, WR, California5) Kansas City Chiefs: Chris Long, DE, Virginia6) New York Jets: Darren McFadden, RB, Arkansas 7) New England Patriots: ...

2008 NFL Mock Draft: Cincinnati Bengals

by Sean Crowe (Senior Writer)

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February 15, 2008


Previous Five Picks

4) Oakland Raiders: DeSean Jackson, WR, California

5) Kansas City Chiefs: Chris Long, DE, Virginia

6) New York Jets: Darren McFadden, RB, Arkansas

7) New England Patriots: Vernon Gholston, DE/OLB, Ohio State

8) Baltimore Ravens: Ryan Clady, OT, Boise State 

Click here to see the entire Mock Draft. 

 

The Longest Mock Draft in NFL History Continues...

Something I failed to take into consideration when planning this 230,000-word mock draft was the fact that if I write about the same players 15 times I’m guaranteed to start repeating myself.

I may like listening to myself say the same thing over and over again, but I’m not sure anyone else does (my wife tells me nobody does).

This thing is a work-in-progress—I’m not sure a 31-part column has ever been attempted before.  If it has, I guarantee that I didn’t have the attention span to read it all the way through.

So I’ve decided to make a few changes to the format of the Mock Draft entries:

1) I’m only going to write a blurb about the actual pick, not the potential picks.  This should limit my ridiculous habit of repeating myself over and over again.

2) Instead of posting all of the previous picks at the top of the column, I’m just going to list the last five.

3) I’ll keep a running tally of the entire mock draft on my blog, here.

Hopefully these changes will keep things running smoothly the rest of the way...

 

Pick No. 9: The Cincinnati Bengals

The Bengals were a huge disappointment last year.

Before the start of the 2007 season, I had the Bengals as a team on the rise.  Their season was derailed by a tremendous amount of off-field issues and a serious lack of on-field performance. 

I don’t buy the blaming of Chad Johnson, and frankly I don’t understand it.  

Chad Johnson may be flamboyant and he may take his celebrations a little too far sometimes, but I would counter with the following:

1) It should be noted that you can’t have an excessive touchdown celebration unless you’re scoring touchdowns.

2) The “No Fun League” needs guys like Chad Johnson.

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  1. Anonymous about 1 year ago

    could you envision Sedrick going to the patriots and the bengals getting Gholston instead?

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  2. Anonymous about 1 year ago

    Sean:
    Sedrick will be gone well before 9. Get your facts straight

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    • Marcus Hagness about 1 year ago

      This is called a "Mock Draft" for a reason. He is putting HIS predictions of where he thinks the chips will fall on draft day. The fact that he's this far into it before the NFL combine is impressive to me. What facts does he have to get straight? This is his prediction, he doesn't need to prove that this is who he thinks will be picked.

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  3. Anonymous about 1 year ago

    STOMPED OUT!!!!!!!!!!
    The pats got destroyed, the score didn't show it. You guys are still in denial two weeks later come on. We slapped you guys around on both sides of the ball the whole game. I have people writing comments about luck and no-calls ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Do you guys have meetings with one another and plan the bullshit comments and excuses your all gonna use so you sound like you actually make a point. Recent Pats excuses i've heard 1) Brady was obviously hurt-his performance shows that- GUESS WHAT THAT"S A BULLSHIT EXCUSE 2) Giants Got Lucky- Another BULLSHIT EXCUSE only people who get their asses kicked use this lame weak pitiful excuse 3) The refs didn't make any calls for the pats VEGAS must have called-If you go to pg. 56 in sports illustrated you can see a clear picture of our defensive line being held by the giants offensive line and we didn't get that call either- ANOTHER BULLSHIT EXCUSE Your team is the NE Pats and your gonna talk about suspect calls and games that looked like they were fixed. You all sad sad people wake up! You got beat down physically very very badly. Not the by the score thats not my point. PHYSICALLY the pats took an ass kicking and it's time for the fans to shut up and stop making excuses for the loss and let it go.

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  4. Anonymous about 1 year ago

    Sean How does Eli Manning Taste? Maybe you can write an article about that

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    • Sean Crowe about 1 year ago

      I like that Giants fans are following me around and commenting on my columns even when I don't mention them. Warms my heart.

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  5. Brandon Heikoop about 1 year ago

    Lets be fair, the Bengals will probably go after someone in the secondary or another running back. I'm a Bengals fan and I have been anything but impressed with their drafting in the early rounds for as long as I can remember.

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  6. Brandon Heikoop about 1 year ago

    Lets be fair, the Bengals will probably go after someone in the secondary or another running back. I'm a Bengals fan and I have been anything but impressed with their drafting in the early rounds for as long as I can remember.

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  7. Richard Bowler about 1 year ago

    I like the pick of Ellis hear. He is a bit of a high riser going into the combine but he is the real deal in my opinion.

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  8. Anonymous about 1 year ago

    SEAN is a fat black dick sucking homo. The only 2 things SEAN likes more than his Patriots is, sucking on fat black dicks and eating Lucky Charms. Hey SEAN, I'll see you on your Raiders page, bitch!

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  9. aaron ruther about 1 year ago

    Just an FYI.... Marvin has 1 year left on his contract. Things aren't so bad that Mike Brown's cheap ass is willing to pay for a coach who isnt even coaching, as he would if he fired him this year.

    I personally have mixed opinions on Marvin, but Chad is overreacting to overreactions by Bengal fans....I like him. Rosenhaus could be to blame too.

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  10. aaron ruther about 1 year ago

    O and Brandon....
    I think the Bengals are finally happy with the young talent at secondary (Hall, Joseph, White, Ndukwe) so I don't see them drafting there. I think its a safe assumption they go front 7 and pretty likely its D-Line.

    Are you gonna tell me you wouldn't have taken Hall with that pick last year?

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