04-27-2020, 09:23 PM
(04-27-2020, 07:03 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Zac had brutal bad luck in losing Williams, Boling, and Green before trainingcamp even started. In 2018 Andre Smith was worse than Bobby Hart, yet opening day 2019 he was our starting LT. Our offense never had a chance due to lack of talent but poor coaching made it worse (see: run game first 8 games)Plus Glenn was out for what 10 or 11 games as well. That's a 3 out of the 5 starters on the Offensive line.
Our defense seemed to have more talent, but they just played really bad and underachieved. Guys that I have seen play well in the past looked like crap.
It is too early to really judge our draft from last year, but for some reason (I still don't know who to blame) our free agent signings last year were bad even by Bengal standards (and that is saying a lot).
This year looks A LOT better so far, but I am still concerned about the coaching.
Defense started the year with an unbelievable performance against Seattle and then completely shit the bed weeks 2-10. Then they finished the season playing solid to good defense. I have a lot of hope for the unit though but we'll see.
As for free agency last year yeah it was bad. I thought Duke was over confident in Hart and Brown. Those Two signings are still head scratchers to me.
Free Agency this season I thought it was ok but not as great as everyone makes it out to be. It was nice to see them be active for a change.
Kirkpatrick, Dennard, Williams vs Wayne's, Alexander, and Bell is a push.
Reader is an improvement over Billings but Billings wasn't a scrub either at the same time.
Bynes is the typical run stuffing LB that they sign every single off season.
Miller vs Fulia is also a push.
Other than Reader I didn't see an impact player from that list but I didn't see a scrub either.
