11-20-2024, 01:13 PM
(11-20-2024, 12:12 PM)Timanky12 Wrote: We need to come back to reality, this team is not a playoff team.
Offense alone, is not enough to win in the NFL. I don’t think any team with even an average defense has won a Super Bowl. We are no where close to an average defense. We need to stop pretending that this team can make the playoffs, and possibly win a Super Bowl.
Drafting has been a disaster lately, free agents a bust, and defense only one time in 6 years finished average, at 16th.
We caught lightning in a bottle in 2021 and 2022, but that run is over.
If you can’t run the ball, stop the run, rush the QB, cover in the secondary, your toast. It will take major changes in players and DC and new schemes, to turn this team around. And it’s not happening this year.
Yeah, so many needs right now. You could get an Abdul Carter (a Micah Parson's type player) in the first round and fix some of the serious defensive issues, but then the Bengals still have a very bad OL and Burrow getting abused. You could go for OL and then continue with one of the worse defenses in the league, with only Hendrickson as a star player. And at this point I don't trust the Bengals drafting after the 1st round.
They really need to spend money on the scouting department. So many head-scratching picks each draft. I generally come on this board to rate the drafts a "C" each time, but read the comments and how everyone thinks these were an "A" draft and I get my hopes up, only to be dashed by the actual performance of the players. I'm finding it hard to find hope for the future of this team unless there are major investments.
