IF You Ever Wonder About the Bengals Not Having Any Money

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(04-01-2017, 10:48 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: I call BS. Bengals play 16 games a year minimum. How many snow/rain practices has the team had the past 10 years where they dd not use the UC bubble or move practice to Mason indoor facility or move the practice time? You have been whining about no inside practice facility for a decade.

Here luvnit is just one of several statistics on the matter I quickly found. Fact is it matters ! This isn't 1975 anymore.


Because in today's NFL, the single most important long-term investment an owner can make in a franchise is a top training facility, specifically one with a large, indoor practice field in a permanent structure. (Not merely a bubble.) Such a facility enables the team to conduct crisp practices for all 16 games and the playoffs, providing "Home Facilities Advantage" for all games.

Consider these statistics:

• 13 of last 14 Super Bowl participants had their own indoor practice facility.
• Last 8 Super Bowl winners had their own indoor practice facility.
• Last 6 Super Bowl winners had a fixed structure indoor practice facility (not a bubble).
• All 12 teams to make playoffs last season used their own indoor practice facility.
• 2010 teams who practiced using their own indoor full-field training facility had a median win total of 10 (10-6 record).
• 2010 teams who practiced outdoors had a median win total of 6 (6-10 record).
• 2010 teams who practiced indoors at own training facility averaged 4 more wins in 2010, compared to those who did not.
• 2010 teams who practiced outdoors and were not located in Florida or California, had the following records: 6-10 (Redskins), 6-10 (Cowboys), 5-11 (Cardinals), 4-12 (Bengals), 4-12 (Broncos), 2-14 (Panthers).
  

Sure, the Redskins will apparently have a bubble finally for the 2011 season. But, a bubble is a cheap solution, costing as little as $100K. That's a few plays from Albert Haynesworth. These days, the going rate for a world-class NFL training facility is $75 million. That's what the Jets paid for theirs. Dan Snyder & Co are pocketing $780 million and tossing Mike Shanahan a bubble.
The last time a bubble produced a Super Bowl champion was the 2005 Patriots, whose success was more directly traced to Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. The Patriots have since been beaten in the playoffs by teams with superior training facilities:
2006-07: Colts
2007-08: Giants
2009-10: Ravens
2010-11: Jets
The Patriots are the high-water mark of bubble teams, and they've been outflanked by teams with better training facilities. Other teams with bubbles have done worse: Texans, Titans, Dolphins. All three of those teams have bubbles barely large enough for 100 yards.