“The biggest thing that’s important to us is organizing the info and the schedule,” Tobin said. “As long as you’re organized, we get multiple looks on guys. But we rely on our looks, we rely on quality over quantity. And the longer you work with guys, the more you know how they grade and get a feel for what they see. And our guys are all very consistent in how they view players. And so we feel really good about the looks that our guy gives, and then you don’t get it muddied by eight opinions.
“The easiest way to describe our department is everybody works some in every area,” Tobin continued. “The reason I do that is because I want them to be fresh in, A) knowing what’s playing in the NFL, and then B) having a context for grading college guys. All our guys have to have an awareness of A) what’s in the NFL and B) what’s coming from the colleges. And I think that gives them a great context when they’re looking at a college player, knowing what’s in the NFL.
Also, all of them live in Cincinnati, which may make the travel more arduous at times, but is something that Tobin, even in today’s Zoom–centric world, views as key to all of it. And as to Burrow specifically, Tobin conceded, “It’s a little different. You want him to understand the why’s about it, especially on offensive players that we bring in. And you want him to see the reasons and you want him to have some voice in it:. The great thing about our players is when we ask them, they’re not expecting to be decision-makers, they’re information sources for us. If we can use that information source, then that’s great.
Doing that in Cincinnati first required an honest assessment for the team on where it was on that side of the ball, and that meant taking a cold look at the Bengals’ own free agents versus the others out there. That led to the decisions that Trey Hendrickson would be better for them than homegrown Carl Lawson and that letting William Jackson go could create room to bring in multiple corners.
“The thing that we’ve hit on is players that love to play football,” Tobin said. ‘They love what football brings them, but that’s not their motivation. And if you can avoid the players that are just motivated by what football brings them and buy into players who love the actual football, love the preparation, love the grind, love the locker room, love being around teammates, love being coached, that’s the biggest thing.
“The belief on our team was that we had what we needed and so really, the camaraderie was still there,” Tobin said. “We weren’t winning, but the belief was there. And the camaraderie was still there.”
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