02-24-2017, 02:54 PM
(02-21-2017, 10:45 AM)Au165 Wrote: Once again, I don't throw around statements judging others intent haphazardly. Saying any owner "doesn't want to win" is presumptive and probably off base. If we didn't want to win we wouldn't resign anyone, which is why I caution people from saying hyperbolic things like that. Saying we want to win "our way" is probably more appropriate. Will it work? History doesn't favor it, but at the same time we have still found success in it so who knows.
You surely understand that when Bengals fans say "ownership doesn't want to win" they don't mean Mike Brown doesn't want to win. What it really means is that Mike Brown lacks the killer instinct to know how close we were to a championship caliber team and go sign someone who will put us over the top.
There is a difference in building through the draft and making key signing at the right time. Atlanta signed Sanu and Mack and went from mediocre to the SuperBowl. We have been way above the Mediocre line as a whole the last 5 years (before last year) and we have needed that one or two upgrades that Free Agency provides every year. Instead we stand pat and lose to the better teams in the league every year. It is frustrating as hell.
