Bengals Director of Player Personnel Duke Tobin addressed the team focusing on the offensive side of the ball while neglecting the defensive side.
“I feel as strongly about the defense as I feel about the offense in terms of necessity, and it’s got to work together,” Tobin said, via PFT. “You’re always going to be a little heavier on one side of the ball or the other, depending on how you’re paying your team. There can be an imbalance based on that, but you still have to have a complementary team. We believe we can outscore anybody. That’s our mindset, that’s who we are, that’s what we’ve always been about. But you always have to take care of the other side of the ball.”
Browns owner, Jimmy Haslam, expressed his confidence in GM Andrew Berry and HC Kevin Stefanski.
“Well, we sat here last year and Kevin was a two-time out of four years coach of the year and Andrew was regarded as one of the top executives in pro football at the age of 37 years old,” Haslam said on Monday, via Chris Easterling of the Akron Beacon Journal. “So, I don’t think they forgot how to coach. I don’t think they forgot how to do personnel. There are things both of them can do better. There are things our entire organization could do better. It’s a little bit of everything that could go wrong that did go wrong, but I don’t want to make any excuses. They can both do better, but we have high confidence in both of them.”
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