01-27-2024, 10:29 PM
It is pretty obvious that there are somethings that the Bengals need to correct if they wish to take home the important hardware. To start with and maybe most importantly is the offensive line. When you look across the board at the top offensive line, Philly, overall blocking grade to ours it is pretty glaring:
Mailata - 84.1 Brown Jr. - 66.1
Dickerson - 70.0 Volson - 58.3
Kelce - 80.7 Karra - 67.4
Jurgens - 63.0 Cappa - 64.9
Johnson - 80.9 Williams - 58.5
This is about winning in the trenches and it is apparent that the Bengals are not doing that regularly on offense. If they want to win now it must start to be corrected. On the other side of the ball the story could be much the same.
Bengals were ranked 31st in run defense as well as 28th in passing defense. Again, I believe this speaks to winning in the trenches. On defense I believe that is more about the middle of the defense rather than the edges where we know Hubbard and Hendrickson both can get after the passer and are both pretty stout against the run.
In this simulation the two tackles I had targeted for the Bengals #16 Latham and #19 Mims were both off of the board when the Bengals selected. At first this was rather disappointing to me until I started considering how this could be worked to the advantage of the team. At this point I turned to the contingency plan and that was to use the 18th selection as a means of positioning the team to fill glaring needs with good value selections. Following is how that turned out.
Mailata - 84.1 Brown Jr. - 66.1
Dickerson - 70.0 Volson - 58.3
Kelce - 80.7 Karra - 67.4
Jurgens - 63.0 Cappa - 64.9
Johnson - 80.9 Williams - 58.5
This is about winning in the trenches and it is apparent that the Bengals are not doing that regularly on offense. If they want to win now it must start to be corrected. On the other side of the ball the story could be much the same.
Bengals were ranked 31st in run defense as well as 28th in passing defense. Again, I believe this speaks to winning in the trenches. On defense I believe that is more about the middle of the defense rather than the edges where we know Hubbard and Hendrickson both can get after the passer and are both pretty stout against the run.
In this simulation the two tackles I had targeted for the Bengals #16 Latham and #19 Mims were both off of the board when the Bengals selected. At first this was rather disappointing to me until I started considering how this could be worked to the advantage of the team. At this point I turned to the contingency plan and that was to use the 18th selection as a means of positioning the team to fill glaring needs with good value selections. Following is how that turned out.
