03-06-2019, 12:17 PM
(03-05-2019, 11:06 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: This was from BEFORE Marvin got hired. Rings true today still! Hey...maybe we need more time to see if we need more scouts. 27 years+ isn't enough!Not sure why you had to post this reply 2 times, but way to post an article from at least 19 years ago....You have no clue what our scouts do everyday or who they are looking at. I'm willing to bet they look at every college player available to draft. Every team uses a scouting service and gets the same information. The coaches and Duke decide who they want visit for pro day. Not really sure why you feel the need to whine about this in every thread on the board?
"The odds are against any coach winning there unless a bigger effort is made in the scouting department," said John Clayton, of ESPN.com and ESPN Magazine. "The Bengals concede five months - August, September, October, November and December - to the rest of the league."
The Bengals do not scout college players as heavily as most other NFL teams. They have just four full-time "scouts" in their personnel department - and two of them are Brown family members who spend much of their time in the office. The fifth person in the department is part-time consultant John Cooper, the former Ohio State coach.
"Other teams hit every school," Clayton said. "The Bengals get the (scouting) reports, but I get the reports, too. It's knowing the background information, the players' personalities, that make the difference in drafting."
The Bengals do visit schools during the season, but their scouts do not see as many games as scouts from other NFL teams.
"You need to make evaluations during games," Clayton said. "You're not scouting guys to workout."
