06-25-2015, 08:24 AM
(06-24-2015, 11:42 PM)fredtoast Wrote: In 2012 Green-Ellis was our starting RB, our #2 WR was 5'7" Andrew Hawkins who is a decent slot receiver but had no business playing on the outside. Our #3 WR was Armon Binns with 210 receiving yards. Our #2 TE was Orson Charles with 8 receptions, and after Cook went down with injury we had a huge hole at center.
Should we have been better than 22nd? Maybe, but not by much.
Anyone who tries to claim that 2012 offense had top 5 talent is delusional.
While I agree with you that we should have been a little better than 22nd but definitely not top 5, your post is flat out wrong about Hawkins. It's so frustrating trying to have discussions with fans that have no clue what they are talking about.
Andrew Hawkins wasn't our #2, he absolutely played in the slot for the entire season. The only reason he had more targets, yards, and receptions than our #2 is that the actual #2 spot on the outside was a revolving door that year. Sanu, Tate, Binns, and Jones all saw time there but Hawkins was in the slot for the whole season. 86.2% of his routes were out of the slot which almost topped the league in percentage that year. Most "slot receivers" are there about 70% of the time, give or take a bit. Hawkins would have had no business playing on the outside, but he DIDN'T play on the outside.
I'll even preemptively mock my post by you saying "it was a joke, see, that's what you do!!!!!" so we can get that out of the way now. Should we just assume that you have no idea what you're talking about since you got something wrong about a Bengals team years ago? That's what you do to others because you're a shitty human being.
