NFL Insider Field Yates Praises Duke Tobin: 'I Believe In Results'

Dan Hoard brought Tobin's notoriety up on the Bengals Booth Podcast.

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Russ Heltman
Publish date:
Nov 19, 2022 12:04 PM EST

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CINCINNATI — The Bengals have nailed plenty of draft and free agency decisions in Duke Tobin's tenure with the team. The mixture of both really stands out to ESPN analyst and former NFL scout Field Yates.

"Ultimately, I believe in results, and I think that Cincinnati's results largely speak for themselves," Yates said on the Bengals Booth Podcast. "This is a franchise that's had to reshape itself over the past handful of years.

"A lot of the offensive pieces that are so great, were high picks, none more so than Joe [Burrow] and Ja'Marr [Chase]. Defensively that makeover over the past couple of years has been this really unique blend of not just some really good homegrown talent, but find a free agent pickup [on the team] that if you were to redo it, you would say no, I'm not even considering it."

Yates worked with the New England Patriots scouting department before entering into media. He sees Tobins anonymity as one of the reasons people don't recognize his results more frequently.

"My guess is that part of what influences our perception of people in sports coaches, players executives, is just how much we see of them publicly," Yates said. "And as far as anonymity is concerned, Duke probably is in that top class of general managers or personnel executives, and that's not a bad thing. ... That's just how he and the Bengals go about their business."

Cincinnati has had to plan long term while shifting eras over the past five years, and so far, Tobin is putting the franchise in a great spot to succeed throughout the 2020s.

A few more deep playoff runs will get even more people talking about the 2021 Sporting News NFL Executive of the Year. Check out Dan Hoard's entire conversation with Yates here.

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