John Ross

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(03-02-2018, 11:09 AM)fredtoast Wrote: I see I am going to have to keep posting this over and over again.

Marvin plays rookies as much as the average NFL coach.  Most NFL coaches play vets over rookies.


According to profootballreference over the last ten years there have been 227 different rookies who started at least 14 games. Since there are 32 teams that is an average of 7.1 per team. Over the last ten years the Bengals have 7 different rookies who have started at least 14 games. 


When we expand it beyond just rookie seasons it does not change very much. Looking at the first three seasons of every player's career over the last 10 years there were 785 who had at least one season with at least 14 starts in his first three years. That is an average of 24.5 per team, and the Bengals have had 24. 

I guess I am going to have to keep posting this over and over again.

Your average number is just that...an average.  Your number factors in the starting of AJ Green, Andy Dalton, Votaze Burfict, Russell Bodine, where Marvin had NO CHOICE but had to play them.  That makes his numbers look average.  

Marvin lets players like Ross, Westerman, Redmond, Core, Malone, and WJIII sit while players supposedly in front of them are not remotely producing.  This breeds mediocrity and also creates an environment of resentment (Ross, and who knows how many others).  You seem fine with this and that is your right.  I am not fine with it and that is mine.  You keep trying to cherry-pick (that is kind of your schtick) things to make an argument against my opinion of Marvin and it just doesn't work.  Marv holds back talented players over ones that are paid more, and produce very little.  I have no idea why he is that way, but that is Marvin.