02-27-2017, 08:36 PM
(02-27-2017, 11:03 AM)bengals67 Wrote: our team philosophy is schizophrenic.
We don't want to sign free agents , want comp picks, and want to build through the draft
But our coaching staff does not want to play rookies.
A lot of the problem with our draft choices is that they do not get to play.
I think "building through the draft" is code for we want as many rookies as possible because under the new CBA we can substantially limit our payroll
I hope you're racking up the rep for this one. Not that it leads to wins, but Cincy's recent drafts have drawn praise from A LOT of the media, some of them credible. They went from technically sound, skilled, driven players like Geno and Whitworth to a specific template recently. It's like they're saying give me an athlete with large dimensions and we will trust our staff to coach them up. We take freakish DE's, interior players that lift record amounts and skill players that the staff talks up to fill voids. Okay, none of that happened. We blame the staff a lot, but since they've been counting on them recently we need to hold them more accountable. This isn't an absolute, but I think we've been drafting descent players and not developing them.
So just like the Whit and Geno examples before, there was a time when you locked both of them up because they panned out. Now you're not locking guys up fast enough AND you aren't coaching up the alternatives to take their spots when you're apathetic about them either way finding an offer to match or leaving. No matter who really makes the decisions, until they hold Marvin and his staff accountable then drafting players with holes this inept staff can't fix is senseless. The best thing about this draft is Marvin doesn't have a deal. Bitter or not, that's where we're at.
