Bengals GM

[SunsetBengal]

(11-29-2018, 01:31 PM)Jakeypoo Wrote: We traded for Glenn this off season and we signed Brown in free agency.  So we did use other ways to build a team other than draft.  Not many teams  use free agency unless it's a team with a first year head coach that's cleaning house. Also how do you know that he doesn't  agree with that philosophy and if he wasn't the GM then why hasn't he left yet.  He has had plenty of opportunities to leave yet he hasn't.

And, just how have those "cheapest available" options panned out, so far?  Cordy Glenn is not looking like a franchise LT, but merely somewhere between average and slightly above.  Preston Brown?  We couldn't even get a solid half a season out of the guy, and he's IR'ed.  

You can try to cherry pick examples like that all day, but why were those moves so noteworthy to begin with?  Because they appeared to be moves out of the Bengals ordinary.  It likely took a group effort of convincing, to even get the big boss to even go along with either of those moves.  In hindsight, it's looking more and more like the Bills got a pair over on us.  At least the Bills were smart enough to let go of dead weight and admit that they were going to rebuild.  Instead of doing like the Bengals, picking up some bargain-basement, washed-up talent, and trying to sell it like they were putting a contender together.

All that I'm saying is that a real GM, with a vision and a plan, doesn't try to always grab at the cheapest available option, when putting a competitive team together.