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

[*PhilHos*]

(01-17-2018, 12:35 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Why stop there?  As long as we're getting rid of mediocre players from the payroll, let's clean the house!

To your list, add:

Shawn Williams (not that great, injury prone)
Dre K  (wasted money)
Kevin Minter (we can do better)
Nick Vigil (face it, he's not developing into a star)
Hardy Nickerson (can't live off of Dad's name alone)
Cedric Ogbuehi (no explanation needed)
Fisher  (see above)
Alex Ericson (he blows as return man)
Pat Sims (we can do better)
Trey Hopkins (he sucked, even before he was injured)

*This is already assuming that we are allowing A. Smith, J. Hill, R. Bodine to all walk in FA

*ALSO*  Shit or get off the pot, when it comes to McCarron.  Trade the man, get something of value!

Here's the thing (and anothe rissue with the Bengals' approach to free agency): these players know our "system". Ergo, they - according to the Bengals' way of thinking - are better than any player that is not clearly heads-and-shoulders better just because they are already familiar with our playbook and the way we do things.

It doesn't matter if a player who is comparable could actually do better in our system, it only matters that he doesn't KNOW our system and he's not a clearly better player. Of course, this just brings us back to the scouting/coaching thing again and we know where that will get us.