06-21-2024, 11:03 PM
(06-21-2024, 03:57 PM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: Well, it took Taylor 5 years to figure out that being utterly predictable in formation, personnel, and alignment is pretty darn stupid.
Always being in 11 with Boyd in the slot had to go. And good riddance.
I think Weezy (is that Jefferson's related?) is right. We want to be more unpredictable. I think we'll see some 12 this year (2 TEs). Some TEs in the slot (especially Gesicki but Hudson, McLachlan, and All coukd be too). Various WRs. And, gasp, maybe even a RB.
Taylor wasn't being predictable in any of these ways. I'm not sure why you or anyone would say this. In 2023, there were 1,123 plays with a player lined up in the slot.
Boyd accounted for 521 of those. Tanner Hudson played roughly the same amount of snaps in the slot as Chase did. Four different RBs logged snaps in the slot.
In 2022, Hayden Hurst logged roughly the same amount of snaps in the slot as....Chase. Four RBs logged snaps in the slot, Boyd accounted for less than half the snaps.
In 2021, CJ Uzomah logged the second most snaps in the slot. Four RBs.
The Bengals have never ran an offense where they just trotted Boyd out in the slot and were predictable in any meaningful way. This is the NFL, you can't get away with that.
