04-20-2022, 04:32 PM
Part of this is the myth that the Bengals were uninjured last season. What happened was that the injuries took a while to kick in but they were there and concentrated on DL and OL.
On OL remember we lost Reiff and then in quick succession we had injuries to Spain, Adeniji and Carman. Add in the earlier injury to D'Ante Smith and one sees why we had to go into postseason with BOTH Guards playing hurt.
On DL there was Ossai and lest we forget we did not have Og for postseason. So we were lacking on depth.
The DL mostly held up anyway (and BJ Hill played out of his mind good). The rash of guard injuries plus no Reiff finally caught up to us.
On OL remember we lost Reiff and then in quick succession we had injuries to Spain, Adeniji and Carman. Add in the earlier injury to D'Ante Smith and one sees why we had to go into postseason with BOTH Guards playing hurt.
On DL there was Ossai and lest we forget we did not have Og for postseason. So we were lacking on depth.
The DL mostly held up anyway (and BJ Hill played out of his mind good). The rash of guard injuries plus no Reiff finally caught up to us.
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