12-04-2024, 11:11 AM
(12-03-2024, 08:18 PM)kevin Wrote: Now we get back to Mike Brown having the smallest and the cheapest scouting staff in the NFL. The Bengals scouting staff is a joke compared to other NFL teams. Hell, for years Bengals drafted off that Cincinnati drug store guys list, not a scout, a dude in a drug store, and the picks were awful. Lack of scouting has killed the Bengals under the 4 decades of Mike Brown. You can't pick draft picks out of a magazine list, teams need scouts to actually evaluate players. Also The Combine is over rated because it is Track and Field, not Football. Bengals scouting of College games is next to Zero. OK, they do The Senior Bowl and The Combine, but that isn't enough. AND THIS CAUSES AWFUL DRAFT PICKS.
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Maybe with the college playoffs, the Bengals will have a better opportunity to scout top players on the nation's top teams. If the scouting staff is so small, and the senior bowl and Combine are over-rated, at least now that the playoffs will coincide with the Bengals being out of it for this season, they can at least focus on scouting some of the top players being showcased in the playoffs. Better than, as you say, depending on lists produced by others.
Yes, it won't help them find gems on non-playoff teams, but if they're picking from the top 12 teams in the nation, at least they can get first-hand impressions of many of the nation's top players. Send some of the Bengal's coaches to those Saturday games.
