Duke Tobin: Held onto some players too long

[SunsetBengal]

(01-29-2025, 03:51 PM)lone bengal Wrote: The major issue was  Tobin’s  young draft picks didn’t step up Murphy , Zac Carter , Cam Britt-Taylor , DJ Turner, Battle, Volson.  Stone and Rankins were new high priced additions and both disasters. He lets a stud in his prime like Bates walk and replaces Reader with Rankins and he says he held on to some guys too long ? Maybe losing the guys you let walk is the bigger issue and your crappy drafts.

Let's be honest here, CTB, Battle and DJ Turner are just fine. CTB was never going to be CB1 from the get go. Battle and Turner are doing just fine aside from Turner's season ending injury. 

If you think that Stone and Rankins were "high priced" additions, you better check the salary scale. Both of them were cheap signings, well maybe they did pay Rankins too much out of desperation, but that's their own fault for not offering DJ Reader fair market to come back.