The Slot is Dead

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(06-21-2024, 10:52 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Boyd ran a 4.58 at the Combine. Higgins ran a 4.59 at his Pro Day (which means ~4.66 at the Combine as you add .07 to Pro Day 40s). The idea that Boyd is too slow to play outside while Higgins isn't is a weird one. Boyd plays the slot because Tee doesn't. Boyd played more outside before then, and he had back-to-back 1k seasons.

Boyd had 5 drops last year, his career worst. 5 drops is Tee Higgins' career best.

Boyd dropped that pass in Week 10. We had 8 games before that and 8 games after it to have won more. If we are looking back to Week 10 to say "we could have been in the playoffs!" then that's one hell of a specific target that we're pointing at in a season full of other opportunities. Hell, even in that very same game Burrow threw up 2 4th quarter INTs. One that flew over Drew Sample's hands into a defender and one on 1st and goal from the 9 that would have needed to go through the bodies of 3 defenders to even reach the WR. Just an absolutely terrible throw and then an absolutely terrible decision. How many people are banging the "Burrow cost us the playoffs in Week 10" drums? Or the refusing to not limp himself out there and hurt the team for the first four weeks? Nope, all Boyd's fault.

5 years in and Zac seems to pretty much exclusively use motions only to determine if the opposing defense is in man or zone for his QB rather than give his WRs an advantage by letting them get momentum. That's never been Tyler Boyd magically holding Zac Taylor back.

I think I have yet to see a single WR drafted by the Bengals (and many undrafted by the Bengals) that SOMEONE on this board didn't think had the talent to be a #1 WR before they ever played a snap. Statistically, Burton isn't going to do much his rookie year.

It is slander when people are saying "good riddance". It's also straight up scapegoating that apparently Boyd held us back from the playoffs last year and Boyd has been holding back Zac's offensive scheme. I'm pretty sure Boyd also is the reason the train derailed in Ohio, and also Boyd is the cause of inflation. That's pure nonsense and some cold shit to a guy who did his job as a Bengal for years.

If Burton or Iosivas can have a Chris Henry rookie type year… that would be a win. 30 catches, 400 yards and a handful of TDS.