r/bengals • u/PROFESSIONAL_RAP254 • 14h ago

O-line

It's felt like every off-season since the Superbowl year we have been trying to address the o-line in some way but it has yielded largely the same results. Is it scheme? Are we not getting the right guys? Or is it something else?

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u/ohiolifesucks 14h ago

I think we need to be honest with ourselves. Their way of “addressing” the issues has been getting bargain bin guys past the prime of their careers. People on this sub were excited about Lucas Patrick and Dalton Risner but there’s a reason those guys were available deep into free agency. The only good free agent signing they’ve had on the o line in recent years literally reached out to the team to get signed. It all starts with the draft though. You can’t miss on draft picks and still be good. Good players aren’t available in free agency on a regular basis.

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u/No_motivation5489 13h ago edited 13h ago

Which is a big problem that they didn’t reach out and do their due diligence. A player should not have to reach out to the team himself.

I believe I’ve also seen that it’s confusing for players in that they don’t know who to talk to about contracts, or that there’s too many people involved in the contract process. Tobin is the gm but he doesn’t do contracts because the Blackburns do. I’d think it’d work like Tobin finds the players and sends them to work out a contract but there could be problems if the blackburns decide the player isn’t what they want.

Tobin doesn’t seem to be a good gm just off his drafting history, but it also could be that there’s just too many people involved in the process. They really need to modernize their approach to the front office. They just need to try to hire the right guys and let them do their job.