02-24-2019, 03:37 PM
(02-23-2019, 09:15 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: One of the Cons with coaches selecting and scouting players is they may stick with an underperforming player to try to prove they were right on him whereas replacing him signals they were wrong.
You see that more in other sports where the coach is also the GM, but sometimes in the NFL too.
That sounds exactly like Piano Man and Marv honestly.
We don't know if this still exists now cause of the clean sweep that has went on.
(02-23-2019, 09:34 PM)Synric Wrote: Coaches are heavily involved in scouting and selecting players on all 32 teams.
In the past more scouts was a thing but how technology has evolved it's less important to have a large scouting department and more important to have the good scouts and coaches evaluating players.
So true.
(02-23-2019, 09:54 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Coaches are great scouts, as they know exactly what they are looking for in a player. However, it's also nice to have dedicated scouts that are in tune with what the coaches are looking for, so that the coaches can keep their attention where it belongs, on the team..
Thats what i like about what is happening now with Zac, communication is his greatest strength and he is getting all his coaches in line that he communicates great with so they are all on the same page. Awesome thing going on.
(02-23-2019, 10:16 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Yeah - You can go to their websites and see that teams like the Patriots, Steelers, Ravens, and Browns all have 2-3 times as many people in the Player Personnel Dept as us.
Belichick has stated that you can have too many minds as well.
It is not like the Pats have an ungodly amount of scouts.
(02-23-2019, 10:38 PM)Synric Wrote: And with that smaller personnel department the Bengals had nearly twice as many players they drafted playing in the NFL than the league average in 2018.
There are currently 57 players on NFL rosters drafted by the #Bengals.
— Lance McAlister (@LanceMcAlister) October 4, 2018
That is the most produced by any team in the NFL.
Baltimore/NewEngland/
San Francisco/Seattle are tied for 2nd with 44 players.
Good stuff Synric. Not a bad thing to be #1 at either.
(02-23-2019, 11:37 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: I will say that for a 3-4 year span we had some really good drafts with Dalton/Green/Boling and Atkins/Dunlap...but our past 4 or so drafts have been really poor.
Had we consistently drafted like we did over those 3-4 years, we would have been able to lose free agents and still win.
Are you saying Mixon, Lawson, Boyd, WJ3, Bates and Hubbard were bad drafts?
Hell, Price might even become that stud Center for us we have always needed which i am still predicting.
Our one draft where we drafted Og makes all of our drafts look worse than they really were.
