12-28-2018, 12:05 PM
(12-23-2018, 10:11 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: ...the team in the offseason. Yeah draft 2-3 quality starters at these positions. Sign 2-3 quality free agents.
Yeah...it usually doesn't go down like that. We have a bunch of starters that rate in the 40's and 50's on PFF. It's hard to fix that without major changes. The Bengals don't ever seem to be willing to make that many.
For instance, this past offseason...to address Tackle - They signed Hart who was a bad player with the Giants and let him compete with Ced and Fisher - our 2 busts. Yeah...that worked out really well!!!
26+ years of no playoff wins!
To be fair, they did trade for Glenn. He's not the player he once was, but he's worlds better than the other tackles we have.
As far as needs and turning a team around, it can happen in the NFL. The Bengals handed the Eagles a beatdown back in 16, and we were not good that year. Next thing you know, they're SB champs. The Bears have turned things around very quickly as well. The Chiefs went from a perennial upper-mid tier team to a powerhouse with one player (albeit, an MVP type). The Rams were a laughingstock under Jeff Fisher, and became great with most of the same players that Fisher had at his disposal.
Seattle is probably the most encouraging. They kept the same coaches and turned over one of the most feared defensive units in the league in a fairly short time to become relevant very quickly. They suffered through some abysmal o-line play along the way, mixing and matching turds much as we are right now.
The unfortunate part is, almost every team mentioned had to accept some form of major change before they could make the quick turn around. New quarterback, new coach/system, letting go of players that were at one time franchise superstars, etc. None of these things are in the Bengals DNA without hitting rock-bottom in some way. I don't think we've hit what Mike sees as rock bottom.
