Time to jettison Duke Tobin.

[BengalChris]

(12-05-2018, 02:47 PM)impactplaya Wrote: this 3 yr playoff drought you can put at the feet of the 2014 to 2017 drafts.
no ELITE players at all.
swung and missed on 1st RD picks...not that hard to name.
letting Whitworth walk compounded with the failures of the OTs drafted has really set this franchise back.
not finding game changing defensive stalwarts...check.
should I include passing on Mahomes?

You forget one thing, and I'm not disagreeing with you time to jettison Tobin, is that Mike Brown has to approve every contract offer, every contract language, every draft pick and every player who is or isn't re-signed.

Tobin doesn't decide what Whit is offered, draft picks are a group effort of the coaches and the scouts, with Mike Brown making the decision if there's no consensus on who the team should pick. For example, Marv wanted Rueben Foster while Tobin wanted Ross, leaving Mike Brown to decide. Willie Jackson was a good pick, just a down year this year like the entire defense. Ogbuehi and Fisher were awful and Marv had his hand in that, as did Mike Brown by insisting the team keep Paul Alexander on forever. Mike Brown has to approve every draft pick and that affects who the team even considers drafting.

Even if the team KNEW FOR SURE that Mohomes would be a great QB you very well could expect Marv and Mike to not want to draft him because Andy is their guy and he's on a team friendly deal.

To understand the Bengals' personnel moves you gotta understand how Mikey boy thinks, or maybe better stated, how Mikey boy reactively makes compulsive decisions trying not to make a bad decision. That's how the guy thinks.