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(03-03-2018, 01:41 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Good point. They were being reactive rather than proactive with those trades. 

I think the overall point is that the Bengals are never aggressively active trying to improve the team quickly. We all know what it looks like when a team does that. It's like when NE won the SB and still made major signings and trades. Even with our best trade (a scrub for Reggie Nelson) was more luck than aggression. Nelson was viewed as a guy that wasn't panning out. That's why we got him for peanuts. It worked out great, but it wasn't considered a bold move at the time.

It was classic Mike going for value with a former 1st round flop. It just panned out that time. 9 times out of 10, it hasn't panned out. It's a lazy move. Not aggressive championship stuff. Heck, all teams take a chance on former flops, but they also get aggressive when they smell that they're close...or when the team has a clear need. The Bengals NEVER get aggressive. I've even seen Fred admit as much.

Spot on !

And I'm quite sure the Bengals will Bengal away free agency this year and sit on their hands the first week being anything but aggressive. And the remaining good core of the team will watch their chances of doing anything here, disappear.