Draft Bowers

[SunsetBengal]

(11-28-2023, 04:04 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: If we had a tight end like Bowers, I'm sure Zac would make him the #2 target.

We had Hurst here, who was a first round pick (20s) and he had the second most catches of his career here (only four less than the most) and he played in three less games.

Bowers is a hell of a lot better than Hurst and, if we have Bowers, Burrow's not going to just sit back and let Zac not use him.x

Furthermore, Zac would have a say in the draft and isn't going to let Duke draft someone if he has no intentions of utilizing him.

Burrow knows that the line still likely won't be great, especially if we don't get rid of Pollack, so he'll want a tight end like Bowers as an outlet.

There it is, again.  The TE is just an afterthought in the Zac Taylor offense.  He's not going to keep his existing playbook and just dictate to Burrow, "Ok Joe, TE is now always your second look".  His offense is designed specifically to have the majority of the balls going to WRs.  In order to prioritize the TE as a primary receiving target he'll have to utilize different formations, show a lot more run looks, basically completely different that what he brought with him from LA.

FWIW, I'd love to see the Bengals revamp the offense into a greater TE centric attack. I just have little faith in Taylor buying into and making wholesale philosophical changes to make it work.