2024 Bengals Free Agency/Roster Thread

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(10-28-2024, 11:30 AM)Wyche Wrote: From Bengals Wire:

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• Lou Anarumo is fielding a bottom unit for the second year in a row.
• Duke Tobin and the front office has failed the staff. The drafting largely stinks and when they develop an All-Pro like Jessie Bates, he slips through their fingers. Replacements for Bates, DJ Reader and others never materialize. There’s no pass-rush. Top draft assets spent on cover corners are erratic. A second rounder like Jackson Carman and a possible contributor like Jordan Battle can’t get on the field.
• The bill only gets higher: They missed on paying Ja’Marr Chase when they should have and won’t retain Tee Higgins. They will pay Chase and Burrow’s bigger cap hits will start to arrive, constricting roster construction.
  

They should have added in there that a lack of demand by the head coach, for solid execution in the basic football fundamental skills of blocking and tackling is a gaping specter over current state of the team.