08-07-2017, 01:39 PM
(08-06-2017, 06:00 PM)Aquapod770 Wrote: Our Oline was the worst it's been in a while last year and we lose our 2 best starters from it and replace them with two, at best, huge question marks.
This nails it.
I think we all agree that Whitworth and Zeitler got overpaid...but it seems like people are just writing off their losses as not hurting the overall product because we wouldn't have paid them what they got. You generally get worse when you lose 2 of your best players.
The Bengals WANTED to keep Whitworth. He just surprised them by taking the Rams offer...so they've been forced to scramble. They knew that Whit and Smith were going to leave so they tried to draft their replacements...they just whiffed...atleast so far.
It's going to take Andre Smith coming in and being atleast a good Guard to have an average line I'd say. I'd say the best we can hope for with Ced is him being an average tackle. Bodine will need to improve to be considered average. Boling is above average. Hopefully Fisher can improve to be considered above average too.
The playcalling is going to have to be spot on to gameplan around the deficiencies we have on the line.
We've been spoiled by how good our offensive line has been the past 10-15 years. Some teams get their QB sacked 50+ times a year.
