02-11-2019, 12:27 PM
(02-11-2019, 11:36 AM)THE P ISTONS Wrote: My narrative is that the Bengals coaching staff did not develop players outside of a few rare instances. Players either came in playing at a high level or they rarely developed. I'm not even talking into elite players. I'm talking developed into better players.
At some point you have to give the Bengals credit for something.
We never signed any top free agents yet we made it to the playoffs 5 straight years. I know some people claim making the playoffs 5 straight years is a meaningless nothing, but it is a lot better than a lot of other teams.
In the past few years we found multiple starters in the 4th round or later (Geno Atkins, Clint Boling, Marvin Jones, George Iloka, Russell Bodine, C.J. Uzomah, Andrew Billings, Ryan Glasglow, Carl Lawson)
Our coaches also got good production from players that had flopped under other NFL coaches (Reggie Nelson, Wallace Gilberry, Cedric Benson, Kyle Cook, Dhani Jones)
