09-20-2017, 01:21 PM
(09-20-2017, 01:15 PM)BMK Wrote: Doubtful. If a coach is integral to the gameplan for the coming opponent, it's highly unlikely he'll be sent to bumf**k, Iowa that week to go watch some local phenom that they heard about through a friend of a friend's cousin.
The Bengals subscribe to one or more scouting services that do that for them....Blesto, National, whatever....just like most every other team in the NFL. For the most part, the Bengals have the same scouting information that most of the other teams do.
Now, how they use that information is a totally different story.
Which is my point - We don't have enough scouts to be able to send them to a bunch of games.
Other teams have more scouts AND subscribe to those services.
From John Clayton:
The Bengals do not scout college players as heavily as most other NFL teams. They have just four full-time "scouts" in their personnel department - and two of them are Brown family members who spend much of their time in the office. The fifth person in the department is part-time consultant John Cooper, the former Ohio State coach.
"Other teams hit every school," Clayton said. "The Bengals get the (scouting) reports, but I get the reports, too. It's knowing the background information, the players' personalities, that make the difference in drafting."
The Bengals do visit schools during the season, but their scouts do not see as many games as scouts from other NFL teams.
"You need to make evaluations during games," Clayton said. "You're not scouting guys to workout."
Once the NFL season ends, Bengals assistants do make visits to colleges for player workout days. They also attend the annual scouting combine in Indianapolis.
