Preston Brown re-signed

[*ochocincos*]

(03-14-2019, 09:40 AM)Wyche Wrote: You might wanna watch some tape on the guy prior to last season.  He played hurt basically after the second series of the season.

You don't lead the league with 144 tackles being a bum.  He hasn't given up a TD since his rookie season in coverage.

Brown was/is good at keeping the action in front of him. I wasn't nearly as irritated with this signing as Bobby Hart.
However, I was really hoping that a whole new coaching staff would have been able to come in with fresh eyes and treat outside FAs the same as internal and therefore gone for who they wanted. 
While it may ultimately have ended up the same performance-wise, I would have preferred Hicks and Daryl Williams over Hart and Brown.
This just feels like the old "We know our guys" mentality even though the new coaches don't actually know these guys.
They basically have the same team as last year minus Eifert, Kroft, and Dennard (so far) but with new coaches, which shouldn't really rain down optimism.

At this point, I get the sense the Bengals are going to approach this like every other year...keep their mediocre/bad starters for the sake of having a person there and then draft potential replacements (to groom). If that's their approach, I really HOPE they try to trade up to get more picks into Day 1/2 because this team needs it.