You fans expect too much from these players

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(11-28-2023, 01:54 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I'm leaning more and more towards the belief that the Bengals just need to just purge their entire RB room and bring in a new RB Coach to rebuild it from scratch.

Whatever the Bengals have been doing from a scouting/drafting/developing standpoint just hasn't been working.

We haven't drafted a RB higher than the 5th in the Taylor era and the last Day 1/2 pick we spent there was Mixon in the '17 draft.  With no significant FA adds, it's not a surprise the room sucks.

What's alarming is that when you look at Day 2:picks(which is where you usually want to target RB's), 7 of 10 Day 2 picks in the Taylor era have gone to Defense, with Sample, Higgins, and Carman being the exceptions.  The majority of "big" FA contracts during Taylor's run have either gone to Defense or the OL, as well.  That has left the cupboards bare in the RB and TE rooms and soon to be bare in the WR room when Tee and Boyd leave and we have Chase and a bunch of Day 3 picks and UFA's.