O line struggeling

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(08-08-2017, 10:10 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: It's what the Bengals always do. When they had a Top 5 roster in the NFL a few years ago...they'd save cap space to re-sign future free agents. The cap keeps rising. They could keep those guys anyways.

Why not sign a LB with that money to upgrade from Maualuga? A guy like Darryl Smith. He signed for $3-4 million a year and could actually cover TE's.

Why not sign a Center? It was obvious that Center was a weakness. They didn't address it and we couldn't run the ball in the playoffs.

You can always say...the Bengals need to save their cap space to keep future guys...but they had $18 million cap space and let Zeitler AND Whitworth leave.

It's classic Bengals.

And the we were more than Whitworth away from winning in the playoffs because we didn't win with him argument is classic. I'll tell you how you don't win in the playoffs? Fielding a poor offensive line.

Some fans will root for the Bengals and say that management has a sound strategy financially. It's been 25 years without a playoff win. Some 90% of NFL franchise's have won 5+ playoff game since we've last won a single game. We've won a total of what 5 playoff games in our 49 year history...

The Bengals philosophy DOES NOT work if your objective is playoff success. It works for profit margin.

Every team in the NFL loses players they would rather keep. 

At LB, they drafted Dawson, and he didn't pan out, then drafted Vigil, who the jury is still out on.  Maualuga sxcked, and I've said it for years.  I don't know what point you're trying to make, and how it pertains to this discussion.

Bodine is mediocre, at best, but he isn't the only reason we couldn't run the ball in the playoffs.  You're making him a scapegoat for the entire unit's struggles, as well as the RB's.  If you honestly think we could've run the ball just by swapping out Bodine, you're delusional.  Then again, if you spread the blame around, some of it goes to the guys you're bemoaning the team letting leave.

The Steelers won SB's with a crap OL.  I've posted on here before that statistically, there is no correlation between sacks allowed, ypc, or rushing offense and winning the SB.  The only cardinal rule that holds true is no team has won a SB with an offense ranked lower than 22, and no team that averaged under 300 yards/game has won one since the 70's.  Teams have won the SB ranking from the top to the bottom in those other categories.  It's a fallacy that you can't win in the playoffs without a top tier OL.

So basically, the franchise has sucked for forever, so we should a stupid contract at an aging LT who was one of the team captains in this latest run of futility?  If the franchise is so poorly run from a cap and personnel standpoint, tell me how they managed to assemble this Top 5 roster you were talking about in your first paragraph?  If you admit they built a top 5 roster, then you shouldn't be doing all this complaining about player personnel moves.  Of course, we both know you're just talking out of both sides of your mouth at this point, but whatever.