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If I'm Harbaugh I run the ball until Cincy proves they can stop it.

Decoy?

I often wonder if was only drafted because there were no olinemen they like in his slot

I vaguely remember a quote about Bill Walsh (?) about excellent (but aging) vets. He had a knack of getting rid of them a year before they hit the skids bad.

This, tho I'm not sure we'd get a first (depends on the WR class). Of course we seem to have better luck with 2nd round picks so..... Speaking of first rounders, what's the news on Murphy?

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Pratt (and Wilson) have both earned their extensions this year. Very happy for both.

You make very good points, but I think I do also. Throwing out the beginning of this season because of the Joe not being able to scramble, he's still been running for his life since he got here. Considering 60% of our starting o-line are free agent signings and the Bengals have spent exactly 1 premium pick on o-linemen (Carmen), that seems to me a tacit admission that either the front office sucks at scouting or the coaching staff sucks at...well...coaching. Maybe using free agents is a strategy but eventually you have to hit on draft picks so you can use your limited cap money in other places. And I the article said that drafting oline is a crapshoot at best, but Jesus you still have to TRY. I was team Sewell back in 2021 (ok ok ok...I was wrong) but that's how serious I think the problem is. Heck, Paul Brown's first draft pick was a center ffs so I'm at least wrong in good company. 😁

All in for this year I guess? You got to pay these guys eventually and if Purdy gets back to what he was they won't be able to pay him like a seventh round pick very much longer.

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It's not just the draft picks tho, our free agents seem to regress once they get here. And the draft picks that DO stick never seem to improve much beyond backup status. I should have added that in my original post, my bad. We make fun of Paul Alexander but he fielded some pretty good olines, has Pollack done that here?

Most import line in the whole article IMHO, it's easy to look good when you are better than 99.9% of the people you are playing against. I vaguely remember reading an article about Dwayne Haskins (not an olineman but it still applies) saying that he was playing against "guys who will be selling insurance within 6 months" and "he's completing passes to receivers who don't have anyone within 10 yards of them". I don't know how you can fix that tho. Still, even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally which is why its baffling the Bengals OL draft picks are so,,uhhh..mediocre. That's why I have come to believe its coaching, it's impossible to be THAT bad at picking guys. Isn't it?

Trade him straight up for a top tier oline coach

Fixed it for ya. 😶

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The oline hasn't been competent in years but Burrow had the ability to negate that somewhat with his skills. He's not doing that now, the D can pretty much play red zone defense and dare Burrow to try and beat it deep,. Not gonna happen. (Can't remember where I saw the red zone analogy or I'd give whoever credit for it. Seemed correct to me)

I'm starting to believe its coaching.

That seems like a no-brainer doesn't it? It protects Burrow AND the defense, which is getting wore out. Bengals were 15 seconds shy of a 10 minute time of possession deficit. I'm no pretty much fully in the sit Joe til after the bye camp.

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49 passes is pure BS even if Burrow is healthy. They need to start running the ball more. Still happy with the win though.

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This guy cracks me up

The Browns cheerleaders sure are looking forward to it.