Mike says Dalton should "re-establish himself" but FO needs to establish themselves

[Shake n Blake]

(05-12-2019, 03:57 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I see you are not used to how certain members here spin everything to shit on the Bengals.

Like you said, lots of teams would have made the exact same move.  The stategy was not the problem.  The problem was the execution.  The replacement they drafted was a bust.

But it is not good enough for people to just say Mike Bropwn is not smart at football.  Instead they have to make him evil and greedy.

But he is greedy. 

Seriously, we have the smallest FO/scouting department in the league, we borrow a practice facility from a local college, bused over to a soccer complex for years (which is pathetic and sad), we've had legendary tales of renting out TV's and not buying towels in the past. The guy is a miser. Maybe not with his own players, but I often wonder if the reason we promote "build exclusively through the draft" is because he's able to indoctrinate these young guys into taking these contracts that are skimpy on guaranteed money. 

Good free agents will mostly balk at the idea of taking less guaranteed, but with our own free agents, they have to consider uprooting their families, learning new coaches, playbooks, teammates, etc. Not saying I'm 100% sure on this, but it's a theory of mine that would tie together our love of the draft, compensatory picks and signing our own, as well as our loathing of (quality) free agents.