02-26-2020, 09:57 PM
(02-25-2020, 11:38 AM)Catmandude123 Wrote: Are the Bengals fans too nostalgic? Do we try to live in the not so glorious past? Posts about bringing back past their prime players when they know they will never be what they once were only magnifies the dilemma the team faces when trying to reinvent themselves. While veteran presence is a positive thing you can't sacrifice replacing players who are the future. Whit, Burfict, Dalton and even AJ are not the future of the franchise. Do you re-sign any of them when you could get a better younger FA player? The remake of the team is stunted when we ignore the obvious.
I don't just think it is the fans being nostalgic as much as its the way we all know the way the FO is ran.
The FO likes to bring back former Bengals.
With Whit for me it is more of bringing him back in a leadership role and I think he would be worth it on this alone.
With Burfict he has a great Defensive mind even if I don't think he can cut it on the field anymore and our LB's are so bad besides
Pratt and Vigil to the contrary of some that act like Vigil is the worst LB in the NFL, he is not when healthy BTW.
Dalton will move on and it should benefit everyone so moot point.
AJ should be back cause Burrow wants him here but it needs to be on an incentive laden contract that takes into account his injury
history. This is not nostalgia, it is the fact that WHEN healthy AJ is one of the best WR's in the NFL. It might be a risk but playing it
safe never helped a gambler and only gamblers win the big one.
