Just realized what might be holding this franchise back..im

[BengalChris]

(05-17-2018, 06:36 PM)impactplaya Wrote: Im looking around the league at players like Joey Bosa
Todd Gurley Marshawn Lattimore JuJu Smith Schuster
Kareem Hunt Stefan Diggs....
whats the common thread all under the age of 25 and are impact players...difference makers...franchise cornerstones....
simply put the Bengals past drafts of recent memory has this team stuck in the proverbial mud.
back to back 7 and 9 seasons. hooray.
yeah Duke Tobin has hit on a couple BUT NOT ENOUGH. HIS MISSES ARE HURTING THE FRANCHISE
Jackson and Lawson look like future game changers
but turn the page
Vigil fail
Ogebughi super fail
Fisher fail
Malone incomplete
Core fail
Kroft better than average
i not gonna name off every draft pick over 4 years time but you get my point
for a franchise who mantra is draft and develop
its sputtering like Briggs and Stratton lawn mower from 1979.
its time for these young guys to produce or sit the bench
look at Pittsbugh...getting production and impact from Watt Schuster Davis heck even Jesse James
etc etc
the future is now.
the.Tobin honeymoon is done its a wrap.homies

It's not just the drafts, the team also has resigned the wrong players and lets the better ones go.

Now, granted some of those players you mentioned were drafted before the Bengals even picked in the 1st round and were out of reach. But some were definitely in reach and the team whiffed.

We took Ross over Lattimore. Taking Lattimore and letting Kirkpatrick walk would have given us Jackson, Dennard in the slot and Lattimore. That would probably be the best set of corners in the league. Instead we have Dre "Penalty Machine" Kirkpatrick locked up for years. I hope Austin cleans up Dre's game.

Considering that we had signed Kirkpatrick before the draft last year and that more or less took Lattimore off the board for us, I had wanted us to take Derek Barnett, who would have already taken over the RDE spot and made the DL very solid with Dunlap, Atkins, Barnett and Glasgow/Billings.

We resigned Williams and let Nelson go after Nelson led the league in interceptions for all positions, not just safety. What is even more irritating about that move is that the team paid Williams more than Nelson got.

The biggest failures were Ogbuehi and Fisher and both were OL and it is very possible that Paul Alexander's influence f--ed those picks up. At least we can hope that was the reason for those two.