Brandon Spikes is Officially OFF My Draft Wish List

INbengalfan · Joined: 21 Jan 2006 Posts: 1681 Location: Richmond, IN

There's no such thing as enough young LB's in the NFL. Especially with Lewis.
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CincyCracker9 · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:03 am Post subject:

half a game is pathetic.

but i'm surprised at how against drafting him you guys are...

not sure how i feel about him as a bengal, but part of me thinks the bengals really need a player like this...i mean, ray lewis murdered a man and is a first ballot HOFer. i kid, but only to an extent.
a LB with a mean streak would be great for this team. on the flip, a thug who gets himself into trouble would certainly not be.
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johndeere1707 · Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 2223

i dont care, maybe this will cause him to drop to us. I would take him in a heartbeat, dude is a baller. So he messed up, im confident in our coaching staff to help him mature as a player and person.
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maximus7913 · Joined: 21 Jan 2006 Posts: 1515

At this point, I dont want him. But there are other reasons in addition to this. I think we have bigger needs elsewhere.

However, the way Brandon Spikes handles himself the rest of this season, the way he handles himself in the offseason, and the postseason interviews at the combine and bowl games if he takes part, will be key for him as a prospect. He'll need to prove that this was a one time happening, and that he's matured from it (I think it certainly helps show a bit of his character by going to Urban and telling him that he was sitting the entire game, rather than just one half).

If he's of value at the time we pick and Haden's gone and Lindley isn't of value, I wouldn't be that upset if we took him, as long as he shows that this is a one time happening, and that he has more respect for the game.
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theJ · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:16 pm Post subject:

This has to be put in perspective. Albert Haynesworth stomped on a guys throat during a game, and 32 teams wanted him when he hit the free agent market.

The more i think about it, the more i think that if he's the best player there, we should take him. Unless of course, he proves his --baggeryness during the offseason. We'll see.
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craigmack · Joined: 07 Oct 2009 Posts: 32

Look, I doubt he will ever do that again. He got caught red handed. I'm sure sometime told him that he would be in prison right now if that dude he eye-fingered was blinded.

Weird thing is, the college football commentators told me that anyone that spends time around Tebow is a better man...so i can't imagine how it happened in the first place.
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theJ · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:55 am Post subject:

Beck Bristow · Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 4439

It will be forgotten by the time the draft gets here, and then we'll draft him and the all of the media will jump all over us for taking a player with such character concerns.

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