Time to face the facts, this team is mediocre

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(10-27-2024, 10:46 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Sucks. Poor coaching. Poor drafting. Poor free agent choices. Guys underperforming.

I feel like this is more outside of the games themselves and more around player development.

I think this ultimately boils down to how well the Bengals added FAs and high draft picks back in 2020-2021 but now they are having to figure things out with a tighter purse due to some big contracts and haven't done a good job of that.

Bates and Reader departing in FA were probably the two biggest hits to this defense.
They have no game-changing DBs now.
Their DL can't seem to get any pressure or sacks outside of Hendrickson.
Out of Hendrickson, the DL has only 4 sacks.
For offense, there hasn't been anyone really to step up for Mixon and Boyd departing.
Bengals are heavily dependent on Higgins being healthy to have any type of passing offense.