04-24-2020, 02:44 PM
(04-24-2020, 02:39 PM)kevin Wrote: We still have Atkins and Dunlap. We don't need D Line or Edge Rusher as much as LB and O Line. LB and O Line have really stunk up the place on Bengals in 2017, 2018, 2019. If we don't get LB and O Line then changing QB will do us No Good at all. Baun is NOT an edge rusher although he can do that. He is a SAM LB that needs to play off the line more than on the line. Seattle wants him to be their new Seahawks LB that makes their D both a 4-3 and a 3-4 with such a SAM LB. The Rams and Packers looking at Baun same way. The heck with them, WE NEED LINEBACKER.
If you watch the Bengals every game last 3 years, you know we need LB and O Line tonight in Rounds 2 and 3, because Bengals are just awful on LB TACKLING and O Line BLOCKING. We don't improve on 2 wins without an upgrade.
Yep - and that's why I'm taking a guy like Willie Gay who has a phenomenal coverage grade in his career at MSU. We need LBs that can cover. Period. I'm sick of seeing RBs and TEs running around uncovered and moving the chains on 3rd downs. Baun is a typical 3-4 outside LB. We are in nickel roughly 80% of the time. Give me a guy that can cover the middle of the field - that's not Baun.
You keep saying we get pushed around That starts on the lines. Reader will help immensely on that front. Epenesa isn't really an edge guy, I think he can play anywhere along the line. He would definitely make this team tougher up front.
As for the O-line.... It wouldn't hurt my feelings if we drafted 2 OGs and a RT in the next 2 days.
