Duke Tobin and the Bengals are WHIFFING in the draft

[THE PISTONS]

(09-24-2024, 11:31 AM)Whatever Wrote: This team has philosophically moved it's team building philosophy away from what made them a SB contender in the first place.  

When we were true contenders, we drafted skill position players high and effectively built the defense out of FA.  Now, we're trying to build the defense in the draft and piece together the offense out of FA's and Day 3 draft picks around the trio of good players we drafted and still have left(and one's playing for someone else next year).  It's not working.

Bottom line is this, this team cannot draft and develop "trenches" to save it's life. You can either keep throwing away premium draft capital for little return or accept it and address them in another way.  

Well, we look at our roster and we're like in 2 years this player will cost too much and leave. So we draft the replacement. Happened since Whitworth.

But, most of the time the drafted guys are about half as good as the guy they replace, so the strategy fails. Over and over.

Look...we don't draft well outside of Burrow, Chase, and Higgins.