Are We Signing Brandon Scherff?

[*ochocincos*]

(04-02-2025, 07:18 PM)ERIC1 Wrote: only time will tell Frank..if you are suggesting that this football team cant rise above the loss of a DJ or Hubbard..most team  s lose the "DJs and Hibbards ..especially after a couple of championship seasons..that's life and the money in the NFL ..then we don't belong in the playoffs

That's exactly what is being said.

The team has not done a good job grooming/finding replacements when quality veterans left, thus pointing to the decline from a few years ago.

It's admirable they went 5-0 to finish the year last year, but they were 4-8 before that.
It was going to be extreme luck of all the other teams floundering to get them into the postseason.
Had the Bengals had a better gameplan and/or new faces so they could have hit the ground running in September, we might have been talking about the AFC North Champion, AFC Champion, or Super Bowl Champion Bengals.

Are people feeling good about the new faces they got this offseason?
I currently see this as a 9-11 win team.
If they *nail* the draft with 3+ guys who can be significant contributors as rookies, I could see 1-2 more wins.
But I'm not going into the draft thinking this is championship contender yet.

[Sled21]

(04-03-2025, 07:09 PM)jj22 Wrote: And there lies the problem… If it was that easy we would have been fixed the Oline. We’ve missed out on great guards in the draft the last 15 years. 

So we can’t trust the draft
Can’t trust FA signings 
Can’t trust them to find a gem on the cheap. 

Yes, but missing in the draft and signing another team's castoff that gets hurt for the season two games in puts you in the same position, just the miss in the draft is cheaper.

[jj22]

(Yesterday, 09:12 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: They have 6 picks, so I figure they can also get a really good CB, S, DE, and S too... we'll have to wait until 2026 to just turn all of our draft picks into really good players.

You guys have to be realistic. We'll be lucky if 2 of our 6 picks become future contributors. 

This board is asking a lot out of 3-6 round picks. 

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(Yesterday, 11:00 AM)jj22 Wrote: You guys have to be realistic. We'll be lucky if 2 of our 6 picks become future contributors. 

This board is asking a lot out of 3-6 round picks. 

...I thought I laid that on thickly enough that I didn't need to ninja. Lol

[RunKijanaRun]

(04-02-2025, 10:15 AM)ERIC1 Wrote: the offense and defense was playing remarkably better the last third of the season....they kept the players they needed to keep and signed those they needed to sign..I would imagine they will address a couple of positions through the draft..They made the necessary coaching changes that needed to be made..I like the fine tuning approach

sound of barf

[*Nate (formerly eliminate08)*]

They better sign somebody to play the other Guard spot in case Volson still sucks and the Draft pick is not an instant Mims type.

Mims types are few and far between...