2021 Offseason - Overall Thoughts

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(05-07-2021, 02:35 PM)Murdock2420 Wrote: Not trying to come off as negative... but just being honest here.

Reiff's grade certainly is helped by the offense in Minnesota being run first. Teams couldn't just line up and tee off on rushing the QB, they had to respect the Vikings ground game.

The Bengals need to get it right with the sets and play-calling with their current roster. If they leave Burrow in empty sets in shotgun again on a majority of their snaps, teams are going to speed rush this line to death.

If they switch things up, and get Burrow under center or even in the pistol with a TE on the end of the line and Mixon next to him it will do more to keep defenses honest then anything else they've done this off-season. Throwing as much as they did last year is not sustainable, even if they had 5 clones of Munoz on the line.

We can play the what if game all day long. What would TB's OL individual grades be without a HOF QB who reads defenses as well as anyone who ever played QB and has a quick release also? What happens if Burrow and Mixon do not get hurt? What happens if 18 million dollar a year AJ Green plays like an elite receiver? What happens if our best pass catching TE does not get hurt early in the year?

My point arguments always be made to take a player up or down a notch. I like the addition of Reiff at RT and think he is a huge upgrade over Hart and also did not break the bank.