Dalton's weapons

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(09-27-2017, 07:40 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: This is the Bengals we're talking about. They aren't going on some free agency splurge regardless of who they cut. They had the money to keep a line in front of the current QB (who has proven good enough to win with) and they simply chose not to. The same thing happened with Palmer.

So what makes you think they'll suddenly decide to protect the next QB?

It's fun to talk about what you or I would do to fix the team, but we know damn well that the Bengals don't operate like other franchises...and that's why we keep having to dump good QBs and pretend they were the problem all along.

You're right in that past tendencies with this organization would say there is no hope for the Bengals to go outside FA to get a proven OL. The only position they've really ever done that in which I can remember during the ML era is Bobbie Williams.

What this organization has been blessed with are good 1st or high 2nd round picks that have manned the OT positions (nearly) this whole era.
Willie Anderson, Levi Jones, Andrew Whitworth, Andre Smith. They haven't gone with horrendous OT play in a LONG time.
For C, they picked up Rich Braham when he was waived as a rookie and he solidified that position for nearly 12 years. After Braham, they rolled with Ghiachuc, 4th round pick. Then they followed in Braham's footsteps and picked up a waived rookie right before the season in Kyle Cook. The Bengals did have Jeff Faine at C for a year due to an injury to Cook IIRC. Then Bodine came along in 2014. Barring an injury, they've always gone with either a C they drafted or rookie scooped up off waivers.

So with Ogbuehi, Fisher, and Bodine all peforming poorly (yet again), this is all new territory for the Bengals. They've never had poor performances at all three of these positions. Perhaps they realize this and can't just sit back and wait for players to develop like they have in the past. But yes, what should be done vs what the Bengals will actually do are often two different things.