Team Needs for Next Season

[Millhouse]

(11-22-2016, 09:58 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: I disagree.  Duke Tobin, Katie, Troy, and Marv have been outstanding at assembling talent.  However, they keep drafting square pegs and putting them in round holes.  

They draft an enforcer at Safety in Williams, and make him play center field.  Derron Smith is much more adept at the scheme they run.

They draft stud (I think they could be studs) TEs in Eifert, Uzomah, Kroft, and Hewitt (FA, but they're paying him $5 million a year!) and then play almost exclusively 3- WR sets in a game where they can't run the ball of get any protection.  Hue loved the two TE set, and I think would be doing much more than that now if he were here.  

They at least draft their corners early because with this pathetic front four, they have to cover all day long.  

They draft (sign sign as FA) thumper LBs that can't cover a TE.  Nuff said.  Vigil at least appears to be a bit of light dawning on marble head. 

It is the schemes, guys.  They have talented players being wasted.  IMHO, Rex Burkhead should have 50 receptions a season.  He can stay in and block or slip out as an outlet receiver.  He had the fastest short-shuttle in the entire draft the year he came out.  He plays pretty much just special teams. 

Good and valid points, but yet for a team that relies on the draft, they have whiffed on last year's top 2 picks, and a 3rd rounder to boot. Year before they whiffed on Dennard in the first round. Dont know yet on WJ3, but if he ends up like a Dennard, then that is 3 straight years of muffing up the top picks in the draft. 

Yeah for quite a few teams that know how to play free agency these would have been good drafts, taking chances on players like Hunt and Ogbebooti who was already on IR. But for a team like the Bengals though, they have not done a good enough job. 

Outside of Eifert, name me one player in the last 5 drafts that is an actual difference maker? Im not talkin about an average starter or rotation guy, but someone that is a top tier sort of player. Burfict was undrafted but they signed him asap after draft was over. Only other one I might consider is Hill, but that is heavily debatable because he needs good blocking to excel. Also maybe Marvin Jones but he is off to greener pastures.  They simply havent  drafted enough top-tier difference makers that they need to.

That said, I do agree on coaching, and not using players like Rex or Gio for that matter in more optimal situations.