Who gave Troy Blackburn the keys to the car?

[cincygrad]

Bengals seem a little defensive about Bobby Hart criticism

Whoa.... When did we decide that Katie's husband should be the voice for the team? He sounds like an absolute idiot.

 

[CrashDavisSports]

For an executive in charge of a major piece of the organization, he doesn't sound that well spoken. He kinda sounds like me when I go off on a rant on a sports forum. Just random thoughts chunked together. I expected more.

 

[DanBengalfan]

Only so much star quality to go around.

 

[BKBroiler9000]

Who put this retard in front of a mic? Everytime a member of the Brown family speaks its an embarrassment to Cincinnati and the league as a whole.

Also his rationale was essentially this: we acknowledge we have a problem, but it’s too expensive to fix.

Gotta love the Bengals FO. Torpedoing seasons before they begin since Paul Brown went in the ground.

 

[CrashDavisSports]

Hart was not great, but talent is getting more expensive. I am willing to live with Hart's contract to get started into this 3 year deal until we can either:

1) Find a suitable replacement to take over.
2) Our new coaching staff turns around a young mans career trajectory.

Hart may not be worth 7 million a year, but it was 3 years and not much guaranteed, so it is easy enough to cut bait with if needed.

Troy could have said something like this:

We are taking a chance on Bobby, and hope that his level of pay will motivate him to improve on his previous year. We have faith in our new coaching staff, and believe that a young man like Bobby has a lot of football in front of him, if he can get things moving in the right direction. We believe he can based on the remarks of our coaching staff regarding the skills they felt Bobby had to work with. Time will tell, but for the meantime, we have confidence in our coaching staff and Bobby to anchor the right side of that line.



Redmond played beside Hart, so how much did Hart give up next to Redmond when he was trying to make up for his mistakes on blocking? I have no idea. Just a random thought from my end.

 

[cincygrad]

Why not just say what every other seasoned NFL exec/coach says..... "We are working to create competition across the roster. We value Bobby's talent and expect him to get better. We paid him according to his value and we expect him to compete." Done and done.

Is it really that hard?

 

[DanBengalfan]

just say, "offensive line talent is in high demand. We see him as someone with experience who can mentor our younger offensive lineman going into the future. Sure, everyone would love it if all pro players would come here and work for less money, but the reality is you need someone like him on your team."

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not that I agree with that. if your going to have shitty players, shitty players shouldn't cost that much.

 

[DanBengalfan]

 

[CrashDavisSports]

He has a lot of heart. No brainer to sign.

 

[Cincyfan78]

Is it really that hard?