01-26-2017, 12:37 PM
(01-26-2017, 12:07 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Agreed. There is no salary cap on a scouting department.
If you're not going to sign many external free agents...then you better be really good at drafting.
Lets face it...not signing free agents places A LOT of pressure on drafting. You have to hit basically every year as there is no margin of error to just fill a roster spot with a top-end free agent. Missing on a guy like Bodine hurts bad for many years.
That's the thing that always got me in the past. The team puts out this half truth about "building through the draft", but they have the smallest scouting department in the league. It doesn't add up.
What adds up is that Mike Brown doesn't pay scouts because he's cheap. He doesn't spend on free agents because he's cheap. He doesn't build a practice facility because...you guessed it...he's cheap.
Mikey boy runs the Bengals strictly as a business. Sure, he'd prefer a winner, but he isn't going to sacrifice $ to win football games. He's probably more proud of profit numbers for his family than wins.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
