Duke Tobin: Held onto some players too long

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(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.

Huh?

1. Murphy hasn't developed like we want, but it's not like he's on year 5 languishing: jury's still out.
2. Cam is fine. He had a Jekyl-Hyde year this year, but he's fine going forward and look forward to see him with a new staff.
3. Turner had a good first half of rookie year, bad 2nd half and was more than good this year until he got hurt.
4. Battle's been great since day 1.

The rest you mentioned haven't been good, but you're being highly unfair to guys in their rookie and 2nd years. All of the guys mentioned (that were on the team, on D) improved immensely after the Stooler game, thus we know they have the capability to be better, coaching just let them down early in the year (even Stone improved quite a bit, reading plays and coverages and not looking flatfooted).

It's ok to say guys weren't performing, but the names you've chosen really aren't correct.