08-08-2020, 10:04 PM
(08-05-2020, 12:44 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Then that means you're going to have an awfuly disappointing season from either Green, Higgins, or Boyd.
There's simply not enough balls to go around. For Ross to have a legitimate season it's probably going to mean at least 800 yards and 5 TD's. Those yards and TD's are going to have to come at the expense of others that are currently projected to be bigger contributors.
Think of it this way, if the follow players hit these numbers, what's left?
AJ Green - 1,000 yards
Tyler Boyd - 1,000 yards
Tee Higgins - 600 yards
Mixon/Bernard - 600 yards
Uzomah/Sample - 600 yards
Misc (Tate/Willis/Carter/Erickson) - 250 yards
Total - 4,050 yards
Those are all pretty conservative benchmarks. The numbers out of the running backs and TE spots are basically pulled from our averages over the last few seasons. The misc. number is probably low.
It's really easy to say "I think AJ is back, and has a good season", "I think Boyd keeps his numbers up", "I think Tee Higgins has a gonna uctive first year", etc. But when you start looking at the actual numbers it will take for all of that to happen, there's simply nothing left for Ross to do on a large scale.
So you have to take your pick, is it he has a good season and we all want him back, but one of these other guys really underperforms? Or is John Ross doesn't do a whole lot, and ends up with under 400 yards? You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Oh c'mon.. He'll throw for over 10000 yards every year and everyone who catches the ball will get 1000 every year from now on. I know this because us Bengal fans have suffered too much over the years for it to not happen and we're all gonna be celebrating more super bowl wins than all the teams combined in another 32 years and Joe might retire at 56-58 years old IF the rest of the league gets really lucky. They ain't gonna get that lucky. Get ready to start chipping in for the big Mike Brown statue on Fountain Square folks.
What? You think I'm exaggeratin or something again?
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