Three Things....

[BengalChris]

(03-13-2019, 02:30 PM)psychdoctor Wrote: Three things come to mind that has caused some fans pause if not full throttle panic in bengaldom.  

First, it started with the hire of Turner as OL coach.  I think his history turned off a lot of bengal fans because of the past perception that the franchise has been trying to shake like the team is full of thugs.  Plus his resume is simply not outstanding.  He brings average expectations at best.

Second, the no-hire of JDR.  I think when Taylor turned down JDR, that he lost a lot of PR capital and faith.  I am not sure how Sweet Lou will do but his past resume is average at best.  The late hire of Sweet Lou leaves some believe that he is the 7-8th choice.  The hiring of DC was a PR nightmare that should have been kept under wrap.    

The deal breaker or back breaker for most was signing Hart.  That signing has literally cause some fans PTSD.  It is like one of those familiar signings that stings like an STD.  Like a nightmare.  Why?  Fans go by what they watch every Sunday.  Some go by metric data provided by PFF data.  Neither support signing Hart as the future RT for a team that has supposedly changed.  It wreaks sameness and settling for mediocrity; characteristics that long-term Bengal fans have correlated with Mike Brown and the Front Office.  

So here we are.  Looking seemingly up toward other teams in the AFC North.  I think Taylor needs to hit homeruns this 2019 draft; I mean he needs to kill it.

All very true.

We all should remember that there were no (zero, nada, zippo) changes to the front office staff. So there really is no reason to expect anything other than sameness from a front office that still includes Mike Brown.

Only the coaching staff was fired.

Taylor will not have 100% say in the draft. Marvin didn't have 100% say in the draft either and Mike Brown has a bad habit of overruling coaches when he falls in love with some sob storied player.

This off season is not just a grade of the new coaches, but also a front office staff that brought us Ogbuehi, Fisher, Hunt, Ross, Still and discarded the services of the likes of Whitworth, Zeitler, Marivn Jones, Reggie Nelson, Palmer, Steinbach and others; and if we really look at the tenure of Mike Brown there is a pattern of sameness for 28 years which really only showed improvement as long as Marvin Lewis was here.

So really the thing we do not know, and most likely are little fearful of, is: will the front office completely revert back to the way it was before Marvin Lewis arrived?

Does Taylor have enough personality to influence this front office in player selection and moves? Or, will he just succumb to the insanity that is Mike Brown's thinking process like all the coaches before Marvin did? My God our player moves in the 90's were just horrible, year after year after year, and all of that sits at the feet of this front office and Mike Brown.


This team never improves itself in the first week of free agency so the fact that it hasn't this year is not a concern.