Bengaly are FA once bit, twice shy

[wolfkaosaun]

(01-24-2017, 08:48 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: The Bengals seem to get scared off from their own bad moves. For example, they sign an aging Lavernues Coles and an injury ravaged Antonio Bryant. They don't sign a WR of note again (LaFell) until they absolutely had to...6 years after their last decent FA WR. They need to stop being scared, stop bargain shopping 100% of the time, and just make some sound moves.

It might be moot point now though. Not only is this core of players aging, we're also still stuck with Marvin. I don't think a couple smart mid-tier signings is going to get this team over the hump.

Just for fun, here's some other big FA flops:

Ben Utecht (29)
Antwan Odom (28, turned 29 later in September)
Sam Adams (33)
Jason Allen (29)
AJ Hawk (31)
Travelle Wharton (31)
Karlos Dansby (34, turned 35 in November)

I'm sure there's many more. Lots of these guys were bargain finds. Some were just dumb signings. Odom was just a cheaper replacement for Justin Smith. Mike Brown just hates free agents. Draft picks are cheaper.

Granted, there have been losses, we've also had decent ones.

Deltha O'Neal had some pretty good years here. Especially 2004 and 2005. Then he started to age, but those 2 years he was really good.
Tory James was on the back end of his career, but also had some good years here.
Dexter Jackson wasn't a bad pickup either. Very solid during his time here.

Odom could have done very well. Sadly, he was tore his ACL. Through 18 games with us he had 11 sacks.

But, I also added the age of everyone that you mentioned. That's how old they were.

4 of the 7 you named were at least 31 years old. Including Harrison, who was 35, that gives us 5 out of 8.

I'll give them credit on trying with some of these guys such as Odom and utecht. But the rest were past their prime and added little to nothing.