04-30-2021, 07:25 AM
(04-30-2021, 01:54 AM)Murdock2420 Wrote: To answer all of this in one simply post.
Go look at the shit show that happened on this board for the past few weeks. See all the posts about how our WRs couldn't get separation and how the people who wanted Chase were saying the WR group was worse off then the OL group.
I'm not going to dive through 40 plus threads and hundreds of posts to quote each one, but **** I started a thread about how good Higgins could be, because I actually thought he could be a number 1 and Chase wasn't needed. And in that thread, he was labeled by some as decent or good or a possession guy.
Again... now we draft one guy and suddenly all that was just talk... which really was all my point was. The Pro-Chase movement was talking out their ass about how bad the WR group was because they wanted to push for their dude. All I heard was that the top corner was shadowing Green still and he was getting doubled still and in that scenario DIRECT QUOTES FROM THE DEBATE "Our WRS can't get any separation." "Burrow had to throw the most contested passes." So... Green is out, Chase is in... so he gets doubled, and that means the other two will have the exact same scenario as last season.
So...
Either it is total bullshit that the Bengals have a top WR group...
or
It was total bullshit how bad the WR group was prior to getting Chase.
Pick one, but it must be one because no one drafted player magically fixes anything. Even Sewell wouldn't have fixed the line on his own, needed more then one guy there.
Most importantly. At this point, I just don't even care. I legit feel like Bill Burr when he was talking about losing his religion and how he just let it go at one point when he wasn't getting anything out of it anymore. I'm really at that exact same point right now, I look at how long I've wasted money and time on Mike Brown's product and realize at this point he doesn't care about winning. Which makes me really ask, why should I care and invest in this team? The Chase pick does two things, makes Burrow happy so he re-ups when they want him too and most importantly, creates a mob of people storming to the Pro Shop with money going "I needz da Chase jersey." This pick wasn't about long term winning, this pick was about short term getting fans in the seats and selling jerseys.
Look at Twitter, look at this board, the frenzy of excitement for a 4 win team has Mike Brown seeing dollar signs and a 6 or 7 win season that he can sell as "progress".
Dude, relax. I bet if you did a poll, no one would NOT want Higgins and Boyd on this team. They are great. Higgins still has a chance to be even better. However, they both IN FACT struggle to get consistent separation. That was clear last year when our WR had the least separation of any team in the league. I’m not sure how that’s “shitting” when it’s just facts. AJ was a big problem with that, and Tate was as well. If we trot out Higgins Boyd and Tate for 16 games, they ARE slow.
Also, 10 years ago we took AJ Green when we had obvious glaring needs. No one was more responsible for our turn around than AJ Green. I get it, you’re heart broken we didn’t take Sewell. But acting if there is only 1 way to build a team is ridiculous.
Do it with me... breathe in your nose, out your mouth... slowly.. it’s all going to be okay. I promise. Your world is not ending.
