Comparing Front Office Sizes in the AFC North

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(04-25-2017, 12:32 AM)Beaker Wrote: If you're contending that front office size matters with this info, then you are also contradicting your own hypothesis with the evidence.

In the scheme of reasons that the Bengals have not won a playoff game since 1990, front office size is probably pretty far down the list of relevant reasons.

Hard to say.  Claiming the Browns having a FO shows that FO size doesn't matter is like saying your great aunt who smoked 2 packs a day but lived to be 95 is proof that smoking doesn't kill you.  The Browns are a total outlier of an organization that "proves" that free agency, the draft, 1st round QBs, late-round QBs, and pretty much anything else they've tried DOESN'T WORK.  Yes, they have a GM and we don't.  They have an indoor practice facility and we don't, they have lots of scouts and a big FO and we don't.

No halfways decent NFL franchise should ever compare any aspect of what they do to the Browns.  Nuts to the Browns.  Hey look, the Steelers and Ravens have a bigger FO than we do.  Well, that doesn't matter because we've convinced ourselves that we are way better than the Ravens and that we are either as good as the Steelers OR we are better and they just keep getting lucky, or will totally get old and suck any year now, or are cheaters or something.


How does our FO compare to the more relevant teams in the NFL?  That's the question.  Hell, who needs a crystal ball to see that Mike Brown is the problem and having a small FO stocked with his pals and family members is just another symptom.  Would we win with a FO of 19+ people?  Maybe, but we'll never find out so let's just laugh at the Browns.