01-26-2017, 04:02 PM
(01-26-2017, 12:37 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: 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.
This is the thing that worries me about the future. Many people say "just wait for Katie to take over and we'll see changes". She is an attorney like her father, and learned the business at his side. I'm not so sure that it won't be same old, same old.
