Face It Fans….

[THE PISTONS]

(11-27-2023, 09:01 AM)Bronxbengal Wrote: Despite the cosmetic changes with the stadium and ring of owner, the Brown family are still greedy.  They don’t care about winning.  My hope was the changes to the organization would manifest itself into a perennial winning team.  They had money left over in the cap to use for Bell or Perrine but too cheap to pay their worth.  They still have the smallest scouting staff and front office.  It is mind numbing how inept the Brown family is since they cannot get it right.  There is no excuse not able to win when your franchise QB goes down considering the claims of a cultural change.  Nothing has changed!  We still cheer for a team owned by a family who don’t want to do the things that other winning organizations do to win.  Don’t tell me they own a small market team and can’t.  I will tell all of you to look at Pissburgh and they always have a winning team.  This is miserable as a fan.  Nothing has changed, the past two years was an aberration


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I don't think it's cheapness. I think they're very risk averse and like to budget where teams like the Ravens go all in and figure out the cap later.

The Bengals FO sees overpaying for a guy like Bell and Perrine as hurting them down the road trying to sign some more important players.

That said, we're likely to have a mass exodus of talent this offseason in some of Reader, Boyd, Awuzie, Higgins, etc.

They also, go very cheap on backup QB. Routinely spending under $1 million.

It's the fallacy of their cautious build approach. They think they can be good for 10 years straight or something, but reality is if you lose some key free agents and your draft picks aren't great...you decline. The Bills are having similar issues, except they do go all in.

That said, even if Burrow was healthy...we were probably an 8-10 win team, and I don't see a SB run. The defense is pretty bad. It's gotten worse as the year went along. And that's largely in losing Bates and Bell. And NFL Teams figured out how to attack us.

But, make no mistake...Burrow and Chase and Higgins were the 'catalyst' for turning this thing around. Zac's record without Burrow is all over the board. We're 90's level bad if Burrow isn't here.

Interestingly, we have one of the highest paid o-lines in the league. And the performance just isn't great.