04-26-2022, 11:35 AM
(04-26-2022, 11:22 AM)fredtoast Wrote: People just keep getting enamored with top end TEs, but don't realize how much their value would be diminished playing with Higgins, Chase, and Boyd.
Waller is a great player but it would be a waste for resources for the Bengals because he simply would not have great value here. No TE is going to get enough targets to make a big difference in our offense. Giving more targets to a TE over Higgins, Boyd, or Chase would actually diminish our offense.
Couple things, We have 63 targets to replace with CJ gone. Assuming our pass blocking is better some of those sacks, throw aways, incompletions from last year are going to be catches so there are some more catches across the board. We are also assuming no receiver gets hurt, which the reality is we were lucky last year and there will probably be some snaps lost to injury at some point. Our Red Zone scoring was awful so even if all an elite TE did was improve that he would be worth the price.
