(09-11-2023, 01:44 PM)Jpoore Wrote: I got lit up all draft season… dawand jones too big he’s not gonna be able to block nfl de…. We’ll what does he do. 1 pressure allowed all pre season. 0 presssures allowed week 1.

(09-11-2023, 01:54 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: When and by who? Dawand Jones was a forum favorite.

(09-12-2023, 08:06 AM)Synric Wrote: Dawand Jones didn't have some amazing game. Yes he had a solid game as a pass protector but alot of that had to do with the Play Action from the heavy run offense in the weather. As a run blocker he was down right terrible.

(09-12-2023, 05:41 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: https://twitter.com/Bengals/status/1694050703491080227

Am I surprised at the run block grade when you play against the best run defender in the league. And you are a rookie playing in their first real nfl game?

No

(09-13-2023, 02:49 PM)ochocincos Wrote: While the ship has sailed on Dawand Jones, I'm really looking at someone like JC Latham in late Rd 1 for next year's RT.
He's been pretty good both against the run and pass in his Alabama career, and he plays RT.
6'6", 335 lb

I'd like to get someone like Ifedi as a cheap veteran stopgap and insurance while drafting JC Latham.
Let them compete for starting RT in 2024, Latham take over as starter in 2025 if he doesn't already earn it in 2024.

Backup LT spot could be a competition between Carman and Smith, who both will be in final year under contract.

(09-13-2023, 04:15 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Agreed on Latham. He's been more than solid for a while now and he's a 'bama OL, so unless your name is Alex Leatherwood, you will live up to your draft status.

As for Dawand, he held Hubbard by the collar a few times (it's in one of the videos everyone is showing of him) and it went uncalled, not to mention a failed snatch trap that was clearly a hold.

Hubbard is not the quick-twitch, athletic DE that Dawand will face, so it's no wonder he had a decent game. Let's see him against Watt, Parsons, people like that and if he holds up, great! But I don't think he will.

(09-13-2023, 05:41 PM)ochocincos Wrote: What I don't think I want the Bengals to do is abandon draft plans for a guy they thought was never going to make it to them.
It's resulted in a guy getting taken typically at a position that won't get that guy much playing time early on, and then the positions of bigger need don't get addressed until (way) later, or sometimes not at all (e.g. TE, OT in this past draft). It seems to throw their draft plans in a tizzy when they do that.

(09-19-2023, 01:13 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: I got to see about 5 minutes worth tonight and saw a false start.

(09-19-2023, 09:39 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Then you also likely saw him absolutely dazzled, as Watt blazed by him on a few occasions?

(09-19-2023, 02:20 PM)J24 Wrote: He had a lot of help against Watt(which should happen) yesterday but he did play relatively well against him for a rookie. 

(09-19-2023, 02:37 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Any time that you have to add qualifiers and stress the circumstances to justify a player's performance it tells most people that the said player absolutely did not play well..

(09-19-2023, 03:02 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Jones has now been tagged with 5 total pressures (0 sacks) across two games.
If people mostly care about pressures, Jonah Williams has the same amount.

If Jones follows this trajectory, he'd allow over 40 total pressures.
Essentially the same that Jonah Williams allowed last year, which many deemed were far too many.

So yes, I'd agree that Dawand Jones has not had a great start yet, aside from not allowing a sack.

He's also been graded very poorly in the run game.