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(08-17-2025, 10:08 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Theyre certainly not going to make big, splash moves to solve an issue. They'll sign a fringe starter or career backup and throw a 3rd or 4th Round pick at it.

The elite teams definitely go more all in yearly.

Still the same team building mentality from the FO from 20 years ago - build from the outside.
The couple times they invested a 1st round pick into IOL, the player either sucked (Price) or performed too well and outplayed the target cost the Bengals wanted to pay in FA (Zeitler), letting them once after their rookie contract expired.
They're more than happy to invest 1st rounders into OTs and sign OTs to $10+ mill APY deals, but they don't want to pay $10+ mill APY for IOL.
They look for more bargain shopping for IOL, and it's bitten them ever since Zeitler and Boling departed.
Karras has been solid, but he's not been elite.
All other IOL on the team have been worse than Karras.

I always think how the Bengals might be and might have been if they spent less money on their offensive weapons and more on their OL.
I realize though the OL usually don't sell jerseys like high profile offensive weapons do, so maybe that is part of it.