Athlon Magazine Picks Bengals 3rd in AFC

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(06-15-2017, 12:04 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Too much is made of losing MLJ and Sanu. That is not why we went 6-9-1 last year.

I'd say it was 80% o-line, 10% lack of pass rush and 10% that the run game sucked. Throw in Eifert's injury somewhere as well.

It's easy (and lazy) to look at the outgoing players and correlate that to the drop off, but all the key players are still here.

So, 90% O=Line.  

Paul A really has talent evaluation issues. Seems like we're really inconsistent with our Oline's level of play over the years. 2005 was one of the last really good years we had before they started letting CP9 get his head taken off. So many years our RB's have to make 3 people miss before they can get to the line of scrimmage.  2005 was the last year we finished in the top 10 in YDS/A. That was Rudi Johnson. Since then, we finished in the top 15 once (2014 at #12). We finished at #20 one year. Every other year we've finished in the bottom 12 or bottom 5 teams (#30 once, and dead last once), never top 20. That's pretty pathetic in yards per rushing attempt. Why is Alexander so highly regarded? He teaches good pass blocking technique? Maybe we should hire an assistant Oline coach to get these guys to run block.