Andre Smith reunion

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(03-12-2017, 08:57 PM)fredtoast Wrote: No.  We used a lot of two TE sets.  eifert started 15 games his rookie season.

What is really socking is that you can not see the fact that Marvin plays rookies/high draft picks/young players just as much as the average NFL team.

You can squeal all you want about 4 picks in the last 6 years, but you don't mention what every other team in the leagyue has done or What Marvin has done in the rest of his career other than 4 of the last 6 years.

Go look at the numbers.  They are in the thread in the link.

Then again the question has to be asked


Should a team that values the draft as much as we do and builds through the draft RELIGIOUSLY and participates in free agency as conservatively as we do, be at LEAGUE AVERAGE of playing rookies/young players?

With how hard we go in the draft we should be getting more young guys snaps. I think that's where he WANTS to go with his argument but you kinda irritated him so he isn't letting it come out that way.



Bengals play youth at NFL average and that's a fact. But with how hard we claim to value the draft it is very ODD that we aren't one of the teams that play more youth more often. Numerous times this has hurt us. I mean it takes some guys 3 plus years to finally start here even though their counterpart's play is declining.