How things got this bad?

[BengalChris]

(11-10-2019, 07:51 PM)TKUHL Wrote: Give us your most logical idea on just how things got as bad as they are now. Every position group is just pathetic, absolutely pathetic this year. Worse than last year. I’m sure most of the problems were building the past 4 years missing on draft picks while letting good players walk. But there has to be even more to it than that. Personally I think we have some good players, take the D for instance. The D line has everyone healthy yet they can’t do anything. So what gives. Is coaching, schemes, play calling a result?

Bad ownership that is consistently mis-evaluating the team's situation and circumstances.

The ownership failed to recognize what Marvin Lewis meant to them. It's nothing new for these owners. They couldn't see what Whit or Zeitler brought to the team or Sanu.

If I were this ownership and Marvin said he didn't want player X, I sure as hell would not draft that player.

But it doesn't end with undervaluing those who are valuable to this team. This ownership also overvalues sub-par production. They re-sign Hart and Brown and Redmond and it extended Gio to a contract far above his production level.