Bengals Add Scout - Hire Trey Brown

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(06-16-2021, 09:10 AM)TJ528 Wrote: Why add those 4-6 scouts when you have money coming in from the NFL TV contracts and you're gonna make your money whether you're competitive or not.  

Personally, I believe for the last 30 years Mike has run this franchise like it's his personal business.  He wants to make money more than he wanted to win championships.  He's been known as the bad guy in Cincy for quite awhile, do you really think he cares what the citizens of the greater Cincy area think of him?  

I think we're starting to see changes because honestly i don't think Katie wants to be known as the cheap ass of Cincinnati.  I feel like she wants to win and be competitive.  

In relation to what you said last as far as taking a load off the coaching staff,  I believe i read recently Zac come out and basically say that our coaching staff is required to do a lot more than your typical coaching staff.   

Hopefully, more and more changes continue to come and who knows maybe we'll see a winning season for the first time since 2015 this season.  I'm going with probably not and 6-11 but I continue to have hope.  

Agree about the money coming in from TV contracts, so there's no point to hire scouts to even attempt to be competitive, even though he'd make more money, but I also think it's more about Mike being arrogant and bullheaded and thinking that he's smarter than any scout could be.  Mixed in with the fact that he's a tight ass and that's why we've always had a small scouting department.

With Zac, I do believe that the coaches should be involved because they know the type of player that they want and what abilities they want them to have, but they should tell the scouts that, the scouts should do the brunt work, and then come back and tell the coaches what they found.

Shitty part about this is, with the internet now, everything can be found out about most prospects online, but it still does help to have more scouts to be able to search and also do any in-person scouting/interviews to get a better view.

I believe that Katie and Troy have said they'll hire a GM, so hopefully more scouts brings about a bunch of changes, like maybe even an indoor practice facility and better medical facilities/staff.