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(04-25-2022, 12:55 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: You guys are right, he's not the Guard we would be wanting in the 2nd round.  Not sure if I had him confused with someone else, or what.

Anyway, not sure why everyone keeps bringing up Wide Zone like it's the gospel or something.  Wide Zone isn't an offensive scheme, it's literally a play.  Any successful team must be able to execute from a variety of styles.  One of the biggest issues with the Bengals OL last season, was an inability to get a yard, when they needed a yard.

On 3rd, 4th and short?  You're not running a wide zone play, you're most likely wanting to QB sneak behind the LG and C, or hand it to your RB in a straight line through the same hole.

I'm no modern NFL catch phrase/scheme guru to say the least. But I do know, as you say, our when you have to have a yard or two run blocking sucks.

If you just look at Mixon's stats last season you'd be like hmm they're decent at running the ball. But we weren't. Oh we had games here, drives there, qtr's here, so on. But more often then not when the rubber really met the road. Those have to have it yards, 3rd and 2, 2nd and goal from the 3, so on. We got stuffed like a Christmas turkey. As you say.

And that's one of the bigger reasons I want another top prospect in this years draft. I don't want to be an injury and a half away from "here we go again" "same old song again" "our Oline sucks" "ha ha ha we are through".