Huge mistake to tag Tee

[Nepa]

(01-22-2024, 09:35 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Actually, the Bengals currently have a "pretty good" OL, especially when you compare it to 2019-20-21.  On the rest I agree with you completely.  The team is good at drafting high end WRs (except for guys named John Ross), they should just save the money and invest the pick on a new top WR and have him for 5 years.  

The team definitely needs to take a look at who and how OL and DL scouting for the draft is happening, because it isn't working in it's current iteration.  They'll need to take the money saved on Higgins just to replace a top NT, because after Reader all they have are a couple of one tool guys that never developed further.

Admittedly, I don't know enough about the OL to know how much it is the quality of the players and how much it is the scheme employed. The Bengals invested heavily in bringing in some pretty good OL help. But I watched the Bills yesterday employ 6 OL for 21 of their snaps, and Detroit always double team, and sometimes triple team, Aaron Donald, frustrating him the entire game. I watched RBs effectively pick up blitzers. Whatever the Bengals are failing at -- players or scheme-- they need to get it fixed. Very few sacks the entire divisional round.

As far as Tee, I really wished the Bengals had invested in the TE-heavy draft last year. Look at the players who were so dominant in this playoffs: Kelce, Kincaid, Njoku, Kittle. If the Bengals had a top TE, the loss of Tee would be so much more palatable.