06-24-2024, 02:30 PM
(06-21-2024, 04:41 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Question - If your team wins the Super Bowl, does every position group get a pass when it comes to needing improvement?
I ask because we've seen plenty of times certain positions perform poorly even if a team advances deep into the postseason or even wins the Super Bowl.
My biggest thing is sacks allowed.
Bengals were 25th in the league at 2.9 sacks allowed per game.
Burrow was 2nd-most in the league at pass attempts per game at 36.5, so it's clear the Bengals are a pass-heavy team.
Let's compare that to the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes.
Mahomes led the league in pass attempts per game at 37.3.
However, the Chiefs only allowed 1.6 sacks per game, which was 2nd-best in the league.
If you're going to be a pass-heavy team, you need to keep your QB clean.
Playcalling can help some with this by having a good RB and/or TE pass blocking, but the Bengals don't use TEs much to pass block. It's either run block or run routes for TEs.
Bengals heavily depend on their 5 OL keeping defenders off the QB, and they haven't been doing that for quite a few years now.
While other areas of the team might help get the Bengals deep into the playoffs still, pass blocking for the OL is still one of the worse points of this team.
If they can get even to middle of the pack in sacks allowed per game, that would be a big step for them compared to recent years.
You simply cannot compare JB and Mahomes. Mahomes scrambles like nobody else in the league not named Lamar Jackson and runs away and avoid multiple sacks and one of the least scrambling QB's is JB. Just a bad comparison.
