11-10-2017, 12:56 PM
(11-10-2017, 09:37 AM)Synric Wrote: The issue I have with people arguing about last year's free agency is timeline.
We are saying we needed to replace Cedric Ogbuehi before his second year playing when it's common knowledge that most linemen take a big step year two. Hopkins and Andre were here to compete for Zeilter's spot. Hopkins had a couple good preseason's under his belt and was concensus for someone that needed to get snaps in the regular season. Andre a former top 10 first round pick with a solid albeit slightly injury prone career was brought in for competition. ( I don't wanna hear the guard vs tackle experience because lineman shift back and forth between the two every week all and cross the league.) As for Fisher...they didn't know what they had until know.
My argument he Bengals never spent picks or brought in any talent to compete with back end of the roster guys like TJ Johnson and Eric Winston.
Right now isn't about letting this or that guy go. It's about bad picks and even worse depth.
Yeah...it's death by 1000 papercuts. They let 2 good players go. Didn't bring in viable options to replace them instead relying on what they had. The coaching was bad. The guys didn't perform.
At some extent...I know you can't draft a guy in the 1st Round then when he doesn't show talent for 2 years draft another replacement in the 1st Round...but you have to atleast have some Plan B in case he fails. There was no Plan B. I don't even know if there was a Plan A.
