Offensive Line Through 2 Games

[Murdock2420]

(09-21-2021, 05:48 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I assume you meant "M.J." and he was replaced by Spain.

No I meant A.J. as in A.J. Green. 

There was two major holes on offense, a need for a 3rd WR and the need to fix the OL. 

If the point all along was draft Chase, then you can't cheap out on the OL in FA, and signing one new guy in Reiff to replace the holes of XSF and Bobby Hart, plus the coming off injury Hopkins and the unknown and oft injured Jonah Williams isn't enough work in FA. Can't count Spain in this since he was re-signed not actually added.

(09-21-2021, 05:51 PM)fredtoast Wrote: And we used a top 50 pick in the draft to replace him.  Looks like it is time to see if that works out.

You can't afford to build an entire team through free agency.  You have to address some problems in the draft.

When you dumped all the money into the D two years in a row... there certainly was enough cash to go out and get any number of upgrades that went to Sand Diego or Kansas City or even Zeitler would be an improvement over XSF right now. There was a chance, there was plenty of options and opportunity. The team whiffed and now, this is the result Burrow is on pace to be sacked more then David Carr. TE and RBs be damned, the pass blocking from the OL outside of Spain against Chicago was trash, and a little more effort in FA, or in trading or in gettting a WR in FA and drafting Sewell, Slater or Vera-Tucker goes a long way to fixing the issues.

Teams like KC who were in cap hell found a way to get Thuney with voidable years and thinking outside the box, that is building a championship roster. That is commitment to your fans and your brand and to winning. The Bengals version of that??? A long over-due ring of honor, new jerseys, a WR to sell those jerseys, a new social media directior that is from the family and a throne to sit on pre-game. I'd trade all that crap for a damn winning season and a real commitment from the front office that is never there. Not once, since 1991.