Can we just take a step back and look at the roster?

[*ochocincos*]

(03-18-2019, 01:46 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Every team in the NFL wants to win a Super Bowl. The resources they commit to achieve that goal are vastly different.

Take the 2015 team, we saved money on signing a Center. That cap space rolls over and we get the teams we had the last 3 years. So by not gambling the future away, we still had 3 bad years.

Or they thought they already had the pieces in 2015 to compete for a Super Bowl. And through the regular season, it looked like it could be a reality. The Bengals only missed a first-round bye due to a tiebreaker situation. They also ended up with probably the most impactful injury a contending team can face - QB.

Could they have done more? Absolutely. But they didn't.

The real problem seems to lie with their ability to objectively evaluate existing talent. They think their guys are (far) better than what (most) fans see. It causes them to overpay for their own and also some timidness to go for new people.