11-16-2015, 11:49 AM
(11-15-2015, 08:07 PM)jowczarski Wrote: This team has learned that you have to have the bulls up front in order for your $96 million QB hit his targets,
It may have gotten lost in the details, but this was the point I wanted to make. Mike Brown may have still been a little tight with his money back then, but he stepped up and paid our O-line very well to protect his previous $90 million QB.
And also gave big money to our All-Pro WR.
The single biggest factor in the decline of the '05 Bengals was the injuries to the O-line. Braham only played 2 games after the '05 season. In just one-and-a-half seasons (middle of '07) both Willie and Levi had suffered injuries from which they never fully recovered.
Maybe memories of what happened back then were a part of the reason they have used so many high draft picks on the O-line ever since.
