09-20-2017, 02:50 PM
(09-20-2017, 02:03 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Meh. So our tiny scouting and personnel departments don't matter. No practice facility doesn't matter. The Bengals are correct in avoiding free agency and building through the draft. They are supposedly excellent at drafting.
So why haven't we won a playoff game since 1990?
Yes - People cite they we made the playoffs 5 out of 6 years. Soon to be 5 out of 7 years as success. Well most of our core is gone and the rest are gaining. With Atkins and Green pushing 30 it's going to be on the scouting to draft impact players and they're whiffing on picks.
As far as the playoff years...scouting did contribute to the losses. Through those runs we've NEVER had a good Center or a LB that could cover TE's. In the playoffs teams exploit weaknesses ruthlessly.
We've lived off of 2 GREAT drafts with Dalton/Green and Atkins/Dunlap...but that window is closing.
