The Season Is Over

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by That Guy

oh yeah, and the colts got a steal by turning a 2nd rounder into a top notch DT. that's what a good FO does. address their needs BEFORE they start creating problems costing them games. that's the same FO that drafted most of that colts team... hmm... drafting players... there's a thought.

Hate to say it, but the situation we have with the player-personnel decision making is similar to the Bengals before Marvin Lewis got there. As I understand it, there was one person who worked as a scout for Cincinnati, in addition to ancient workout rooms -- it turned out to be the tell-tale signs of a dysfunctional franchise. Now make no mistake, Snyder and Cooke before him spared no expense to have top-notch training facilities and to furnish the team and its headquarters with whatever they wanted. That's not what I'm talking about.

The archaic situation during the days of gloom in Cincinnati is a mirror image of this team and its current structure for evaluating talent and player acquisition. That is to say, it consists of Dan Snyder's wishes, and the limits of his bank account.

And this is something I thought would surely change once Joe Gibbs restored order to this franchise. Instead, he bought into this notion hook, line, and sinker -- that whatever problem this team faces can be solved by the movement of Dan Snyder's pen to his checkbook. Instead of well-reasoned, astute observations and studies by a football professionals who know what they're doing, we get recklessness, and the throwing of free agent heymakers, hoping one of them will hit.

Until that structure changes, this team will never succeed. And as That Guy said, there's going to be more 2000-like seasons to come.