Mike Brown Lack Of Scouts Hurting Bengals Drafts

[HarleyDog]

(09-23-2017, 08:46 PM)kevin Wrote: The Bengals have the smallest scouting department in the NFL and no GM.  Almost no scouting department, it is so small.  Our coaches after the season go to the Senior Bowl and Combine, that's about it. The other teams have a huge advantage.  Now lets look at our # 1 Draft Picks....OK, AJ Green was a home run.   Kirkpatrick who we drafted injured didn't do much for years but is starting to look good.  ......Now lets look at the others.  Jonathan Joseph was good but we didn't pay him and he has started for Houston for a while.  I guess you can add Carson Palmer gone since 2010 season playing for other teams.  How about Gresham who we let go playing for Arizona.  How about Leon Hall who went to Giants and is now a free agent.  There is Eifert who is always injured anymore. There is Dennard who has yet to live up to the high pick.  There is Ogbuehi who we drafted injured and has yet to live up to his high pick. There is WJ3 who we drafted injured and hasn't lived up to his pick yet.  There is Ross who we drafted injured and hasn't lived up to his high pick yet. Then there is Zietler who Mike Brown said he will never pay a guard, as he said when he let Montoya and Steinbach go.

Now these are all 1st round picks.  The Bengals seem to be striking out at the plate and the few times they make a hit, Mike is too cheap to resign them.  I don't think a team can keep wiffing at the plate on their first round picks over and over and expect not to slip backwards.  I might add that Hall is a free agent, and Bengals may want to consider him back on the cheap for depth we could use. Mostly though I will say again that Mike Brown is CHEAP to a FAULT.  I myself think it would be cheaper to higher a scouting department the size of other NFL teams, so that some of these high prices bonus baby 1st round picks actually help your team.  Of course when they prove worthy of the top pick, you need to PAY THEM, some else Mikey hates to do.

So AJ Green was a home run. Kirkpatrick seems to be becoming pretty good.  Other than that our 1st round picks are not helping, either by now on other teams, or here not living up to the hype.  I lay the entire blame on Mike Brown to CHEAP to hire scouts.  A penny cheap and a dollar stupid as he is losing money on poor 1st round picks.

You have OCD don't you? why always 3-4 paragraphs? Very hard to read after a few (hundred) beers.

Every team has hindsight 20/20.

Each year we (fans) are pretty satisfied with the draft. Marvin knows how to draft well, doesn't know how to utilize those pics well. I have said it before and I will say it again. Bad coaching destroys good talent. Many players, if utilized correctly, could have been stellar. Yet? Marvin Lewis and the cronies under his thumb kept many careers from exploding. When you come to the Bengals and do well, you are let go (MB) and your talent is used elsewhere.