01-17-2018, 02:10 PM
(01-17-2018, 01:46 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: The point isn't weather or not those two will be good "somewhere down the road", they weren't any good when the Bengals needed them to be. The team suffered as a result.
that is completely on Paul Alexander's decision making.
This.
I think the element of timing often gets missed whenever we talk of a coach or player for that matter.
Hanging on to a player/coach too long because they did good a long time ago, or having to wait to year 4 for a draft pick to finally start to show something is what hurts the team.
Its not always as simple were they ever good yes/no....were they good when the team really need them to be, when we really needed to count on them?
Deciding when to let a previously good player go , or when to cut bait on a young draft pick is as much an art of successful roster building as the one-off, point in time evaluation at the time of draft/FA selection
