John Ross is an absolute bust

[BengalChris]

(01-01-2019, 04:58 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: To touch on your first point, some WRs have a full route tree, while some excel more in the short game etc. That’s where the utilization can go wrong. If you continuously send someone deep who isn’t good with deep routes, they won’t play well. That’s the thought here, is that perhaps Ross is being utilized more like a DeSean Jackson when he isn’t a DeSean Jackson.

For what it is worth, I’m coming off of this opinion. Early in the season, I didn’t see him getting many shallow routes and was frustrated because of this. As the season wore on, he received more looks in the short game. Overall, I did see him get open at times but nothing consistent. He needs to improve his release and fine tune his route running.

When Ross was drafted I objected loudly. I kept being told that Ross could run the full route tree, repeatedly. I've yet to see it out of him.

(01-01-2019, 06:31 PM)bengalhoel Wrote: Have you seen how the Chiefs use Tyreke Hill?  He is one inch shorter and 5 pounds lighter.  Is there no way that we can figure out something like that? Something like the Steelers do when they line 3 up on one side of the field and run him across the middle. 

It seems like they have to do this in the Redzone when they run out of space. They cant just send Ross deep and hope our O line gives more than 2 seconds to throw it.

Tyreke Hill would do Tyreke Hill things if he were in Cinci. Doesn't mean that Ross can do those things. If he could do those things he'd do those things. I really cannot imagine that Marvin Lewis would have intentionally kept Ross down.