To Those Who Blame Injuries

[THE PISTONS]

(11-01-2019, 09:36 AM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: This is a great post.

The Cincinnati Bengals treat backup players like fodder and that’s an issue.  Other teams consider backups “starters waiting to happen” so when an actual starter goes down, the fall off in quality of play is minimal if not nonexistent.

How many times have we watched the BLEEPing Steelers when one of their offensive lineman gets dinged up and has to sit out a series or two.  Their backup comes in and still pass blocks and run blocks with energy and great technique.  That’s depth.

The Bengals used to be deep on the defensive line.   A prime feature of the Mike Zimmer defense was rotating fresh defensive lineman in and out of the entire game. You need to have depth to do that.  When Andy Dalton went down in late 2015, I thought AJ McCarron did a fantastic job backing him up.  Heck, AJ McCarron almost won a playoff game!

A depth chart is for more than just deciding in which “string” a player belongs.

The Steelers lost Leveon Bell, Antonio Brown, and Ben Roethlisberger over the past 2 years...and still destroyed us on MNF with a backup QB.

IF the Bengals lost Dalton, Mixon, and Green...fans would be like 'No one can win without those guys!'