John Ross

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(03-02-2018, 07:41 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Marvin plays the best players.  The worst thing a coach could do would be to put in players who do not deserve to play.

Core, Malone, and Ross were not good enought to play in front of LaFell.  What evidence do you have that any of them are better than LaFell?  LaFell has started for two different NFL teams and has over 5000 career receining yards.

WJIII played more snaps that Adam Jones in 6 of the 9 games Jones played this year.  You just make stuff up an claim it is true.  

Marvin thinks one of his best players at Guard was Hopkins.  He was awful all year, was never benched until injured, and then the Bengals bring in Westerman and Redmond and have their two best rushing performances against teams that needed to win to make the playoffs.  I guess Marvin doesn't know who the best players are, instead of not just playing younger guys.  

The only evidence I have of Core was a very promising end to 2016-17 season where I saw the Ratbird DBs drop off Core because they feared his speed.  No one has done that to Lafell, at least not when in stripes.  Malone flashed a bit this year, but, again, your argument becomes self-fulfilling when you want NFL examples and they don't get opportunities.  Malone did look good in the preseason last year. 

Your point about "snaps played" with WJIII is your typical cherry picking....your hands must be so stained from how many times you do this.  

At the beginning of the season, since Adam was suspended week 1, I will start with week 2, and show you the following:

Week 2- Texans   Jones- 92% of defensive snaps.  WJIII- 0%, he did play on special teams.  He was not injured.
Week 3- Packers   Jones- 81% of defensive snaps.  WJIII- 20%, though he did get a pick 6 on one of those
Week 4 and 5, Jones was nicked up, but still played a few snaps, WJIII played more
Week 6- Jones was out due to injury that he tried to fight through
Week 7, Jones back, and played 59% of defensive snaps, WJIII played 55%.  This was the only game the Bengals won where WJIII played fewer snaps than Jones.  
Week 8- Jacksonville   Jones played 61% of defensive snaps, WJIII played 47%.  
Week 9- Titans   They played essentially the same % of defensive snaps.

At this point, the Bengals were 3-6, and all but eliminated.  Marvin played WJIII more the rest of the way as Jones was eventually injured in week 13, and put on IR.  They went 3-3 down the stretch. 

The bottom line:  Marvin went with Jones over WJIII early in the year and even when it was obvious to everyone that Jones had lost it, he kept playing.  The season was going down the tubes, and he stayed the course and it finished in the direction it was heading.  There was a slight uptick in performance after WJIII began played the vast majority of the snaps.  Had he gone with WJIII early, they might not have started as poorly as they did.