12-29-2023, 10:17 PM
(12-29-2023, 08:04 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: - - - - - - -
The Bengals spent the 3rd most % cap space on defense in all of the NFL in 2022 if I remember correctly and were still 16th in overall defense and 6th in scoring defense. No matter how much money you pour into Lou's defense, it's not going to carry the team to the SB.
The defense IS what carried this team to the Super Bowl and AFC championship not the offense.
(12-29-2023, 08:04 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: You also can't just stick Joe Burrow with an even worse offense loaded with more unproven and untested rookies. At that point you're going to have Volson, a rookie RT, unproven WR #2-4, unproven and/or rookie RB, and we have ZERO TEs under contract for 2024. Why get and pay a Joe Burrow and then drain resources from the offense to double down on a bad defense?
The team is always going to run through Burrow, so make sure he's protected (and thus healthy) and has solid options around him.
If Burrow wanted a loaded offense around him, he should have thought of that before he demanded 55 million a year. When you get greedy and take so much of the cap there is only so much money left the team can spend for talent to surround you with. As it is, Burrow has talent around him. Burrow has Cappa and Karras who blocked from Brady. The Bengals went out and got Brown who blocked for Mahomes. They have drafted Ja'marr Chase to help Burrow, they drafted Iosivas they drafted Chase Brown at RB who is averaging more YPC 4.4 than Pacheco 4.3 this year. Burrow would only have a rookie at RT and one as the #3 WR next year if they let go the guys I suggested. If Burrow cant win with that amount of talent around him, he is not that good a QB. Any decent QB would be able to win with the insane amount of talent Burrow is currently surrounded with. You dont think Mahomes would love to have Chase, Higgins, Boyd, Iosivas? Its not realistic to keep the amount of talent Burrow currently has around him when he will be taking up such a large percentage of cap space in future year.
(12-29-2023, 08:04 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Why get and pay a Joe Burrow and then drain resources from the offense to double down on a bad defense?
Why pay Burrow 55 million a year and drain the defense of talent when the offense is bad? especially considering it was the defense that carried the team to the Super Bowl and AFCC? It wasnt the offense. The Bengals in free agency went out and got Burrow even more talent to surround him with when they signed Orlando Brown Jr. While the the Bengals were improving the offensive talent, they took away talent from the defense. Somehow the Bengals offense this year is worse than last year currently ranked #20 in scoring. The Bengals scoring defense is ranked #22 in the NFL so not much difference in where the offense and defense rank but for whatever reason some of you want to keep blaming the defense when the offense has been just as bad. At least the defense has an excuse to be worse this year when you let guys like Bates, Bell and Apple leave. What is the excuse for the offense being worse this year when they added a Pro Bowl LT for Burrow?
