2023 OL Draft Prospects Group Assessments

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(01-28-2023, 03:35 AM)Whatever Wrote: 20 sacks is highly inflated by Burrow's style of play over the past couple of years.  A lot of the recent success in pass pro is Joe getting the ball out quicker.  And the Bills D always crumbles in the playoffs.  Case in point, 13 seconds or a 3rd string QB hanging 30+ on them.  I'm glad Carman has played well the last couple of weeks, but he has also given up sacks, too.  I'm not ready to hand him the starting job without serious competition.  And point blank, I have zero faith on our FO hitting on a T in this class.  I'm not going to get behind a plan that has this FO with it's track record of drafting OL voluntarily putting themselves in a position where they have to spend an early pick on a T in this class, especially when you're pulling the 5th year option on a T that would start for a lot of teams in the league, including ours 

If you're looking to dump someone for cap space, it should be Boyd before anyone else.  He has a 4th year PS guy eating into his reps and targets and we can actually draft WR's well.  Cap space can be created with structure on extensions for guys like Reader and Trey.  

Highly inflated for the LT alone? Because no other position on the line comes close to that 20 number. It's hard for anyone they draft to be worse than that, he literally led the league in sacks allowed while the run game also looked terrible. Now you want to give him a $7m raise. Let some other team start him, because then Hendrickson or Hubbard will be given a free 3 sack game when we play him.

Even if they don't get rid of him, the FO has to draft an OT in 2024. You're just pushing the need a year in the future while giving yourself worse play in the present. The FO is going to have to draft OL. That's the reality of football. Honestly they might still need to draft an OL in 2023, because La'el Collins isn't the answer either with iffy play and an even more iffy back.

That's literally not true. Boyd played 5% less snaps this year than last, and all of that is from the Week 14 game where he played 2 snaps before his finger got a compound dislocation. He plays his normal amount in that game and he's directly on the exact same snap % as last year. The RBs are the ones cutting into targets, as both Mixon and Perine set career high in targets this year, each by 20 more targets than their previous career high.... Probably because Jonah led the league in sacks, so Burrow has to dump it off to the RBs more.

Yes, cap space can be created with structure or extensions, but that tactic comes with one drawback that is a huge drawback for the Bengals. It's reliant on guaranteed money and signing bonuses. All of which means liquid cash needs to be either paid or put into escrow up front. On top of the $150-200m that's going to have to be paid/put into escrow for Burrow, the $70-100m that will need to be paid/put into escrow in 2024 for Chase, and then anyone else's contracts on top of that. Paying and moving hundreds of millions in liquid funds is the FO's biggest weakness when it comes to being able to being able to truly play around with the cap fully like some other teams are doing successfully.