Bengals approaching breaking point

[LostInDaJungle]

http://bengalswire.usatoday.com/2017/10/25/cincinnati-bengals-approaching-breaking-point/

Good article... Sums up the desire to move on from Marvin and the accompanying fear of flying.

 

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This is the team with a quarterback still misfiring on slants. Team with a front office that doesn’t value guards, then gets steamrolled by one of the league’s best, David DeCastro. Team that is pointing fingers and being combative while excusing ignoring Green and Mixon because they only got to run 51 plays. Team with failures in scouting and coaching in the offensive trenches, trading up for an ineffective center on draft day, drafting two tackles and watching as great linemen slipped away before hitting the panic button and asking a career right tackle and retread to rotate on both edges. Team with the desperation to fire an offensive coordinator midseason for the first time in its 50-year existence, only to turn around and repeat the same mistakes a few weeks later — after a bye.

 

Keep in mind this is a team only looking strong to start games because it relies on a scripting system — once the script ends, the wheels fall off.

 

 

[fredtoast]

Bengals have a lot of problems, but some of these complaints sound like message board myths that are popular around here.

 

For example the Bengals used a first round pick on an OG and gave good contracts to Bobbie Williams and Clint Boling.  The fact that we did not want to make Zeitler the highest paid OG in the league does not mean we "don't value guards".

 

Also feel that Mixon fumbling early in the second half along with his lame pass blocking justify his lack of carries.

 

I have no problem with criticizing the Bengals for what they have done wrong, but that does not mean I have to agree with every criticism out there.