When does the honeymoon with Tobin end?

[BengalChris]

(10-23-2017, 03:28 PM)RoyleRedlegs Wrote: Our drafts have yielded incredibly poor results of late.
We've blamed coordinators.
We've blamed coaches.
We've blamed players.

But Tobin never seems to get blame.
He got a TON of credit after the 11/12 drafts.

But since we've been swinging and missing a lot. Especially with high value picks.

When is the honeymoon with Tobin over?


These drafts should be giving us the new core of the team. 
It's too early to say on 2017. But outlook from 2013-2016 is not great. 

I find it hard to blame Tobin completely. Personnel moves on this team involve its owner and he's a moron when it comes to personnel.

The quality of the team's draft picks seems to ebb and flow some.

There have been plenty of good draft picks and plenty of bad ones. Some of the bad ones weren't obvious at the time of the draft.

Some top quality picks have been:

Atkins, Dunlap, Dalton, Green, Whitworth, Zeitler and more.

Some bad ones have been:

Ogbuehi, Fisher and Bodine - all offensive linemen. On the DL we have Still, Hunt and Clarke who just didn't really make it at all.

But the 2017 draft seemed to be a home run when it comes to the DL and defense overall.

Dennard and Vigil are playing well and so is Jackson. Kirkpatrick might just be our 4th best corner. Adam Jones can cover AB better than Dre any day of the week and twice on Sunday.


But what is most irritating is that the team knew full well that Ogbuehi, Fisher and Bodine just didn't have it yet they did nothing at all during the off season. That's on Mike Brown and family, not on Tobin. Tobin doesn't decide who gets re-signed or picked up in free agency.