02-26-2018, 01:47 PM
(02-25-2018, 02:39 PM)Steve Wrote: drafting Ced & Fisher really hurt the Bengals....both of them HUGE BUST....
the main dif b/t the 2 teams is the stealers have a solid O-line....
the Bengals O-line is total garbage.....
b/c the Bengals don't care about the O-line....
we just want cheap, crappy guys....
compare
Bodine to Pouncy....
the Bengals like flashy WR's.....
but Dalton has little to no time to pass the ball.....
we draft three 2nd rd RB's but the O-line can't open a hole for them.....
it seems like the Bengals don't understand.....the game is won or lost in the trenches.....
LT LG C RG RT
Steelers Villanueva* Foster Pouncey* Decastro* Gilbert
Bengals Cedric Boling Bodine Hopkins Fisher
Andre Westerman Westerman Andre
* = at least one Pro Bowl appearance
Andre Smith is a Free Agent that may not return and he played a lot last year.
Steeler line has been working together for a while now allowing them to work as a unit and know how the guy next to them will respond in given situations.
Bengal O-line is unsettled, constantly shuffling guys around and lacks what I call the "thoroughbred quality". Pouncey and Decastro were no doubt thoroughbreds at their positions coming out of college. Having a physical superiority that is visible for all to see just like some players at other non-offensive line positions have for what they do. Guard Quenton Nelson coming out of Notre Dame has this thoroughbred quality. Thoroughbred players physically win, beat down and bloody nose most guys they come across and it takes another thoroughbred over them on the defensive side of the ball to maybe end up with an even match. Neutralize each other.
Boling is the closest thing we have to a thoroughbred player. Too many of our O-lineman are either getting out maneuvered athletically or are the end of the game guy with the bloody nose types (so to speak). Most of them will put up a fight, just like a guy getting whipped in the neighborhood does because everybody is watching, but everybody watches him lose because he isn't the thoroughbred in the fight. He is a pack horse.
Get some thoroughbreds on that line (like say Quenton Nelson) or more tissue for the nose bleeds.
Can't make chicken salad out of chicken crap.
