What If Bengals O Line is Great in 2024

[Joelist]

(06-20-2024, 12:42 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Last year yea, but how much of it was playing in the Bengals scheme and with new team in general?

I'd like to see how he performs this year before labeling him as average when he had been above average for multiple years before coming to Bengals.

A LOT of it is schematic. Any look at the OL that does not look at the scheme is iffy at best. We have had one of the more OL unfriendly schemes in the NFL ever since Zac came aboard. Our tendencies in run/pass, shotgun/under center and how many receivers we send out combine to let defenses tee off on the line because they know what the play is and we put our linemen out on islands a LOT. 

Just look at what happened when they changed the scheme up a bit (when Burrow's calf healed) and went under center more and had a more balanced run/pass ratio - all of a sudden the line looked pretty good. It even looked okay with Browning except when he was holding the ball way too long.