Are We Signing Brandon Scherff?

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(04-02-2025, 07:18 PM)ERIC1 Wrote: only time will tell Frank..if you are suggesting that this football team cant rise above the loss of a DJ or Hubbard..most team  s lose the "DJs and Hibbards ..especially after a couple of championship seasons..that's life and the money in the NFL ..then we don't belong in the playoffs

That's exactly what is being said.

The team has not done a good job grooming/finding replacements when quality veterans left, thus pointing to the decline from a few years ago.

It's admirable they went 5-0 to finish the year last year, but they were 4-8 before that.
It was going to be extreme luck of all the other teams floundering to get them into the postseason.
Had the Bengals had a better gameplan and/or new faces so they could have hit the ground running in September, we might have been talking about the AFC North Champion, AFC Champion, or Super Bowl Champion Bengals.

Are people feeling good about the new faces they got this offseason?
I currently see this as a 9-11 win team.
If they *nail* the draft with 3+ guys who can be significant contributors as rookies, I could see 1-2 more wins.
But I'm not going into the draft thinking this is championship contender yet.