05-03-2021, 08:34 PM
(05-03-2021, 07:58 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: None of this is an issue if the Bengals don't just sit there with their thumbs up their asses in FA with $26m in cap space. You grab one of Corey Linsley, Joe Thuney, or even a Kevin Zeitler/Matt Feiler to go with your one year rental of Reiff and all of a sudden it feels less dire. Not like they didn't have the money for it.
If they had kicked ass on FA OL, I would have been all-in on Team Chase when the draft rolled around. Probably still wouldn't have loved the choice they made for 2nd round OL, but I would have been cheering the Chase pick.
100% correct. I was praying that they spent good money on an interior guy so that we wouldn't have to rely on a rookie or last year's guys.
Contrast that with what the Chargers did to protect Burrow and it's a completely different philosophy.
I do worry about Jonah. If his shoulder was truly an issue from Bama it would have been operated on immediately. Instead he re-injured it in camp and was gone for the year. He also missed time last year with a neck/shoulder issue. I think it's safe to say that he will miss some time this year.
As for Reiff, he's been durable, but he's in his 30s and the body isn't kind to guys that carry around that amount of mass.
I feel like we will have a very deep line in 2022, but we will need some luck to avoid having to turn to some of these guys too early.
