Is the AFCN going to be weak in 2016?

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(06-24-2016, 08:15 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: Yeah, Ben should play more than 12 games, but that doesn't change the fact that we played them all 3 times with Ben at the helm last season. 4 of the 6 losses they had were when Ben was starting too.

The Steelers didn't replace their #2 WR though. We replaced ours with a proven vet that has had just as much production as our previous #2

Green *could* be as good, but he never has. Miller averaged 676 yards and 3.5 TDs the last 4 years and Green averaged 343 yards and 2.3 TDs the last 3 years (I'll remove his rookie year, because he only had 4 receptions that year). Greens best year is about the same as Millers Worst year in the league.

It will be hard for the Bengals to be better offensively than last year due to them being one of the best in the league while Dalton was around, but I don't think that we lose that much because we replaced Marvin Jones with a receiver that's just as good. The Steelers are clearly going to suffer for it because they took downgrades to the positions that they lost, unlike us.

Well, I hope you're right.  I'm just not as sure that:

Hue --> Zampsese
Jones --> Lafell
Eifert for x games --> Kroft

are non-factors and/or upgrades but:


Bryant --> Wheaton
Miller --> Green

are notable drop-offs, that's all.  Oh, plus we are going from a 2nd place schedule to a 1st place one and the Steelers are going from a 1st place to a 2nd...might not be a factor, though. We shall see!

EDIT: I forgot to point out in my earlier post that we are hoping/predicting no drop-off from Hue to Zampese. Can we honestly say we wouldn't be predicting a huge loss if the Steelers went from Haley to Randy Ficthner as their OC? Just saying.