Four consecutive years

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(10-17-2017, 03:53 PM)Synric Wrote: AJ Green got his extention before the season.(9/15) Then signed Brandon Lafell and drafted Tyler Boyd in the second.

Injuries to Dalton's top 3 targets AJ, Eifert, and Gio are what hurt the receiving last season. Zampese to an extent also.

Your original statement of "The year Sanu and Marvin Jones left the Bengals signed two pretty good wide receivers" implies they signed two receivers to replace them. Green was never meant to replace either of them since he was already there and was the WR1. LaFell was meant to replace Jones and Boyd was meant to replace Sanu. So my previous statement of "LaFell and Boyd" still stands as being true.

The problem was they replaced a true WR2 with potential as a deep threat and a possession receiver with two possession receivers. They got less explosive at WR because they lost Marvin Jones. Eifert hurt didn't help, but he wasn't exactly a deep threat either. Neither was Bernard. The only deep threat the Bengals had last year besides AJ was Core, but he was too raw. This year, the Bengals did add more explosiveness with John Ross and Josh Malone to go along with Core and AJ, but Ross hasn't been able to see the field due to injuries and Malone has been a healthy inactive every game because he's too raw. Therefore, the Bengals have been in the same situation explosiveness wise as they were last year.