Paul Dawson who?

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(06-03-2016, 05:27 PM)Joelist Wrote: Remember Dawson's scouting report? He's one of those players who looks bad in practices but turns it on in actual play. Alas Marvin is one of those coaches who thinks players need to practice well to get playtime. See how these two conditions interlock?

Agree with this.  If the vet in front of Burfict hadn't got hurt he may have taken a while to play with the ones - and they liked him. 

Hobson says Dawson played well when he was in the few game snaps he played, but he never seemed to play more than 2-3 consecutive downs and he was gone.   I don't know if that was because the Bengals had vets they'd rather play (Vinny) or whether the coaches - despite what Hobson says - thought he was not playing well.   A guy like that needs game snaps to establish himself.

So who knows.  I have to think that Guenther is smart enough to know what a player's true capabilities are and will stand on the table for him.   After all he did that in order to get him drafted.