09-21-2021, 01:27 PM
(09-21-2021, 08:44 AM)BengalsRocker Wrote: The fact that both O-line and the need for a receiver to replace Green were issues often gets overlooked around here.
High price tags of FAs(that's if they even wanted to play here)and questioning the talent level of later round WRs coming out of the draft weighed into the thoughts.
This finger pointing "Team Sewell" & "Team Chase" is all a bunch of bullshit in my opinion.
The team. Not the fans. Needed to do the work to fix these areas.
Be creative and sign some decent FAs. Draft players to hopefully upgrade as well.
Did we all forget that this same Front Office was whiffing the crap out of O-linemen in the past few drafts(we weren't even positive about Williams)?
It was going to take a lot more than Sewell(I preferred Slater BTW)to fix things overnight.
The easy route to replace someone like what Green was supposed to be(and clearly wasn't anymore)is to take a WR high.
If Higgins goes down we only had Boyd and he's not enough. Tate? Too damn slow.
I'm not sure if Carman was the answer but they had other opportunities. Hell they could have even moved up if they wanted to.
I just shake my head and keep reading these posts. Chase has contributed and looks to be legit going forward but who really knows.
He's making the plays that Green couldn't manage with Burrow last season.
I'm more worried about Trey Hopkins not working out at this point and who is replacing him.
I just want to know WHO are all of these people that supposedly think our O-line is great?
A couple of random posters on a message board?
"I hope you're happy team new shiny toy""We'll get to see how good our WRs are with Allen throwing to them"
Give me a F'n break.
Yall can get salty all you like, but we've allowed 9 sacks and what...19 hits in 2 games?
Pretty clear we should've addressed the line more. If you want to argue that it should've been done in free agency, fine. But a lot of folks in these parts were saying Carman + Reiff + Pollack was enough.
I caught a ton of flack for suggesting otherwise, and now that it's coming true, yall just want us to shut up about it?
Fwiw, I agree with you that we should be focused more on the Brown family than "winning" some stupid debate. Which tbh, I couldn't care less about (I'm just ticked the line still sucks and that I - a fan - can see it coming so easily, yet this front office continues to give half effort to fixing it for 6 years now.
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