'It’s time for the Bengals to alter their offseason mindset.'

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(01-16-2018, 05:54 PM)bengals67 Wrote: keep Malaluga several years after he was exposed by Texans in two playoff games.

Keep Dre, A jones and Bodine last year and let Z and Whit go without franchising either.

Mike takes the path of least resistance, won't cut guys who are clearly under performing if they have a contract, and wont pay out for a prime free agent who is not already a Bengal - and then he will let even those quality  guys walk if they are a guard ( drafted in first round - but "we don't pay guards") or Whit because of the Og fantasy.

Our Bengals suck in personnel decisions. The Steelers are way  better in drafting and making free agent calls on players they have developed.  How can anyone dispute this.

If you are going to "build through the draft" then why don't you have a top tier scouting department with full time scouts.  Hiring 3 full time scouts would be way cheaper than signing even a mid level free agent.  For God's sake give it a try for a few years and see if it is any different than the cheap system we have had for 25 years with not a single playoff win.

Something is bad wrong in Bengal land but nothing ever changes.

In any competitive business you always need to change. Bengals never change.

Cheap or no vision or dumb or all three.

Why the team won’t devote more to the scouting department is absolutely baffling. Especially given the absolute reliance on the draft to build the team. Scouts are cheap. They could hire 8-10 of them for 1 million or so/ year. Hiring scouts would allow the team to gather more intel on players within leagues they already scout, and gather intel in smaller conferences they can’t cover well. Knowledge is power. Being well informed leads to better choices, especially in the mid-late rounds where drafts are won and lost. And then there’s the benefit of allowing the coaches to coach and not play scout during the season...