This is me eating crow.

[*ochocincos*]

(01-11-2018, 09:36 PM)McC Wrote: I like my crow well done over an open fire.  Feel free to join me---

I was wrong as hell about Randy Bullock.  He turned in a good season.  Other than possibly the Titans game, he was never a reason we lost.

I thought John Ross would be a weapon as soon as he hit the field.

I thought losing Peko would be no big deal.

I only somewhat agree with all of these.

Bullock - Yes, he was very solid. He made 90% of his FGs, which was better than Elliott's 83.9% in Philly. However, Elliott hit five 50+ yard FGs out of six with a long of 61 whereas Bullock made his only 50+ yarder that was attempted and it was a 51 yarder. I still think Elliott would have been better from a points contribution standpoint because the Bengals probably would have been able to attempt more 50+ yarders and therefore put up more points overall. But Bullock was solid nonetheless. I would have still kept Elliott though.

Ross - IMO no reason to think he still won't be a weapon as soon as he hits the field. Problem is he didn't really get much of a chance to hit the field at all.

Peko - I still don't disagree with moving on from Peko. Sure, he would have been solid against the run but still a liability when it comes to pass rush. He only had one sack with Denver who has arguably better pass rushers than the Bengals. I think the issue more was that we expected Billings to be better than he was given he had a full year to recover from his 2016 preseason injury. And we thought Sims would have also been serviceable too at least in the run game, which he was not.

I think the only thing I might eat crow on is the criticism I had on Dalton after the first 2-3 games. But with the switch to Lazor he at least stopped turning over the ball by a lot. Dalton still wasn't spectacular from an overall production standpoint though. He still might be in the 11-15 range again if the OL can be improved to the point he trusts his blocking again.

I didn't think Vigil, Rey, and Minter would have been as bad as they were either, but I never claimed they'd be great so I don't consider that as a "need to eat crow".