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(11 hours ago)WeezyBengal Wrote: Blame the coaches, blame the defense, blame whoever.
The real issue? The talent on the roster. It's not good enough, especially on the defensive side of the ball.
The 2021 Super Bowl team was built on free agency - Reader, Chido, Hendrickson, Hilton, Reiff, Vonn Bell. The Bengals have added or replaced some of that talent bringing in Cappa, Karras, Orlando Brown Jr, Geno Stone, Rankins who are on their current roster.
My question is this - where are the draft picks? Other than the Burrow and Chase LAY UPS, who have we drafted since 2019 that you'd consider a good positional NFL player? Higgins, CTB, Logan Wilson. That's it.
The Bengals have WHIFFED in the draft over the past 5 years.
When is Duke Tobin going to be held accountable? Who's responsible for the drafting of guys, especially on the defensive side of the ball? Does Lou have a say? Because he sure seemed giddy every time he was at the podium after we drafted 3 straight defensive players in the first 3 rounds last year.
They need more out of the draft. We can't continue whiffing on first round picks like Dax Hill and second round picks like Jackson Carman. We can't have drafts like 2021 where literally no one is contributing other than Chase. Everyone LOVED this years class, but who is contributing on the defensive side of the ball? It's been pathetic.
What makes all of this worse is we way over value draft picks. We won't trade them for players and keep thinking we can replace players by cheap draft picks and we can't. I think this year is lost and honestly it may be our best hope that it is. We need to pray the right playoff team loses WRs and is willing to overpay for Higgins during the season. Then get those early draft picks in 1,2 and 3. But still doesn't solve the problem of drafting well.
