What If Bengals O Line is Great in 2024

[Lucius Cincinnatus]

(06-25-2024, 04:26 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: Sure. Here is the link. You have to be able to write a bit of code and need to have RStudio installed. It is a package for the programming language R but it is incredibly powerful. I do want to correct myself, though. You are correct that 2020 was 76%. I was taking an aggregate of 2020 and 2021 which averages out to 69% and had specifically checked 2021, but not 2020. They were a heavier shotgun team in 2020 but not in 2021, where they dipped to 64%. Here's a screenshot of 2021.

Thanks for sharing. So Burrow has played 4 years. In 3/4 years, he was in a shotgun heavy offense, 2 of those seasons being the most recent. With no public comments or reports about incorporating under center, folks are essentially using 1-2 games, games in which Burrow was still well above the average in shotgun snaps (83%), and games a backup played, to come to a conclusion that the O-line will be better because we will be in shotgun less. 

Technically, we probably will be in shotgun a bit less than last year given the injury, but nothing shows me that it will be different from our general approach under Taylor.