01-05-2017, 08:06 PM
The time to implement a big schematic change would be during a rebuild. As much as we're all ticked off and disappointed, the Bengals are not in a rebuild. I know from watching our 3-4 conversion in the late 90's that it's not a simple process. The Bengals used a pair of 1st round picks on athletic LBs (Spikes and Simmons) and Dan Wilkinson had a pretty smooth conversion...yet it was still a struggle.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
