Why are Playoff Wins Important? Bengals Edition

[BengalChris]

(04-04-2019, 10:21 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Sadly the magical run thing is an extreme outlier.

The way the Bengals build their roster, almost exclusively through the draft will rely on us to hit on A LOT of draft picks over a 5 year span and get big contributions from players on rookie contracts to win...and it isn't sustainable unless we keep hitting on draft picks.

After 2015, we lost A LOT of our core players to free agency and didn't replace them.

It is honestly a tough model to make work. Now, if we had a Tom Brady at QB, then we could shuffle different players in and out and he'd make them better. But we don't. Same with having a great coach like Belicheck.

And, of course, you need a great owner who lets football people be football people and who realizes that just because he inherited the team or bought the team doesn't immediately make him a football person.