No one would accuse any of the Cincinnati Bengals' primary non-player leadership of being cutting-edge, hyper forward-thinking, or particularly innovative in any way that's meaningful.
Sorry! Those are just the facts. When you keep self-owning yourself at every turn and overcomplicating things, you tend to end up burning multiple years of an elite quarterback's prime. And, you know, alienating some of your other superstars.
Case in point: Reigning Defensive Player of the Year runner-up Trey Hendrickson. The defending NFL sack king is questionable with a hip injury in Week 7, and until/unless somebody else on the Bengals' defensive front steps up, he'll keep being the subject of trade rumors.