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  1. Drafting Olinmen - Why it's hard, and how to find good ones.

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    2 hours ago, Jamie_B said:

    The reason I disagree it's coaching is that we have been missing on guys since before Pollack was even here.

     

    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?

     

     

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  2. Drafting Olinmen - Why it's hard, and how to find good ones.

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    1 hour ago, Jamie_B said:

    Thought this was a great article.

     

    https://www.sbnation.com/2017/4/25/15358566/nfl-draft-offensive-line-prospects-evaluation-geoff-schwartz

     

     

     

     

     

    In college, when you’re physically superior to your opponent

     

    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?

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  7. WEEK 4: @ TITANS (GameDey thread)

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    9 minutes ago, Duluoz said:

    But it's the same coaching staff that brought us to the Superbowl and AFC Championship game the last 2 years...they all suddenly got incompetent?

    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)

  9. Ja’Marr Chase: I’m open, Joe Burrow’s gonna get back to it in no time

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    30 minutes ago, texbengal said:


    I don't understand why they aren't running the ball more, even if they fall behind. They had time today IMO, and the just jettisoned the run early when Mixon was running well. Arguably, he's been their best offensive player so far this year. Why not feature him more? 

     

    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.

  20. Tee watch

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    15 hours ago, MichaelWeston said:

     

    Keep him this year. 

    Franchise and trade him next offseason. 

    Use the draft pick on a WR

    Use the money on Jonah and Reader

     

    The highest paid QB in NFL history shouldn't need 2 top 10 WRs. 

     

    This, especially if they go all the way this year and/or Yoshi pans out. You would easily get a first and probably more for him.

  23. Opportunity arrives for Bengals first-round pick Myles Murphy

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    I won't start panicking until the middle of the season if he still hasn't started to contribute. Here's a thought experiment; the next 5 (6 actually but here was no way the Bengals were taking a QB) selected after Murphy. Who would you have rather had? I know teams have different rankings but hey can't be THAT far off:

     

    Bryan Bresee         DT

    Nolan Smith          EDGE

    Felix Anudike-Uzomah    EDGE

    Joey Porter Jr         CB

    Sam LaPorta           TE

     

    I may have gone with Bresee*  or Laporta but I'm giving Duke the benefit of the doubt as of now.

     

    * I meant Porter, no idea why I typed Bresee. Leaving the post as is and correcting.

     

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