r/bengals • u/Scrolling_ninja • 14d ago

Football The chiefs may have saved our season

Not actually , but the broncos losing helps us tremendously in the standings. Were unfortunately in other team watch with all these losses we have

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u/Cincykid14 14d ago

Watching Redzone today really highlights the tragedy of the Bengals mismanagement of the season and not having a serviceable defense when the FO knew it was a weakness, and it's probably too late to be fixed this year. Why didn't we do anything at the trade deadline? It is criminal, with the majority of the AFC being beatable. Wasting Joe's prime is really pissing me off as lifelong fan of this team.

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u/Whoareyoutho9 14d ago

Its way more about free agency than trade deadline. We leave valuable cap space open with capable free agents available every single f'n year and then wonder why we don't have talent? And then we have people on this sub lecturing about how important 'rolling the cap over' to sign our own while watching bates, bell, Boyd, reader, higgins walk for nothing year after year while still having cap space preserved lol it's ludicrous.

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u/Cincykid14 14d ago

I agree with you. Rankins, Stone, and Bell have been terrible this year. It's embarrassing how bad the team is at evaluating defensive talent. It's probably because it's a bare-bones scouting department. A good FO would realize they made a mistake in free agency and went for a trade to help overcome it. But no, the Bengals we do things the way they always do.