Tough Sledding for Al Golden

[SunsetBengal]

(02-18-2025, 09:15 PM)CJD Wrote: The expectation is that highly drafted players play well, yes. You can say it's all the front office's fault for drafting bad players, but very few of those 8 picks were considered "reaches" by consensus media boards. So either the entire NFL scouting world was wrong 8 times in a row for the Bengals' picks or Lou did not develop them.

I wanted us to keep Bates and Reader too. But the defense should not have bottomed out the way it did with the amount of draft capital invested into it.

I think that most of us long time board members are going with the latter of the two explanations.