01-19-2022, 12:17 PM
(01-19-2022, 10:57 AM)Soonerpeace Wrote: I don’t know the history of the Bengals and can only guess a few things. Why the FA change in approach? Attendance? Revenue?
Pandemic hurt everybody but when your team is lousy they don’t renew. The pandemic has effected attendance in all sports events. People got acclimated to staying at home and saving the money. Mike Brown? I suspect his kids and grand kids who are all invested in the team want to get him a Super Bowl. He’s what 84? Joe Burrow? Maybe they feel there’s their biggest opportunity with him on board? Maybe the young Browns running the show have convinced Mike to become more aggressive.
This off season will tell a lot about their intentions. It also will be crucial to elevating the Bengals to the level of GB,KC, Tampa. They still have some holes. Offensive line we know but really the roster too to bottom needs strengthening too as injuries can effect you a lot in what is now a 17 game season.
The history of this team is they always liked to draft their own players, and then give them extensions. Oftentimes, this went too far in the player's respective careers and they dropped off. When Taylor came in, he got rid of most of the holdover players and replaced them with guys he wanted. To do this solely through the draft would have taken years. Hence the big spending for outside Free Agents.
