Why so mad???

[hollodero]

(03-15-2021, 11:06 PM)PDub80 Wrote: Last off-season, fans absolutely blasted the Bengals over the first few days of the initial FA period when they weren't just immediately throwing crazy cash around. The Bengals ended up having some awesome signings that surprised literally everyone outside of PBS. Injuries aside, they nabbed some great players.... after a few days into the FA period. Everyone was happy with what they did... after blasting them early on.

This off-season is only 10 hours old, yet here are the same insults being thrown at the team. There are still fine players available right now. There are still a ton of great guys that will be  released sooner rather than later. Why the panic?

Well, I panic because it appears that they learned how being active in free agency doesn't help. Thinking along the lines of - 'We untypically did some more in FA last time, we finally signed some bigger names, and what changed? Nothing, we're still just as unsuccessful. So we might as well just revert back to doing things the way we did all those years except last one.'

I specifically panic because we need OLine and them OLiners going everywhere but here is a disaster, imho. No matter who they still sign. This OLine is poised to stay just as atrocious and to set up Burrow for a lot of hits and another injury. Which was the issue with last year's FA too, that indeed some other players can't help much if the Line is just bad and messes everything up.

But there seems to be a tendency not to pay these big line guys much to begin with, which appears to be the general way of thinking about these positions. Which also causes me panic.