Are the bengals really that cheap?

[BengalChris]

(03-04-2016, 02:53 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Except he has.

You may not agree with his choices, but he spent significant money to sign Antwan Odom, Laveranues Coles, and Antonio Bryant.

Bobbie Williams and John Thornton were decent starters signed away from other teams.

I agree it does not seem like enough, but to say "never" is incorrect.

The Bengals do occasionally make a good free agent signing. Adam Jones was one, Bobbie Williams was one, etc. But generally speaking the team hasn't be very good in scouting other team's players. The fact that we spent significant money on Antwan Odom, Coles and Bryant is not a knock on free agency, but rather it's a knock on our scouting of those players.

It's just like not scouting draft picks before you pick them, which use to be a Mike Brown operating basis before Marvin Lewis arrived. Bryant was injured before they signed him and he never played a down for the team.

If the Bengals scouted the draft as they do free agency, then we'd be posting how bad the draft is because the players selected almost always suck and cost too much, etc, etc.