Geno.....

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(05-15-2018, 08:07 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: A fair comparison might be John Randle.  After 8 seasons Randle had 85.5 sacks and 176 combined tackles, Geno is currently sitting at 61 sacks and 290 combined tackles.

Geno may have taken a step back, after the knee injury.  However, if he remains healthy and plays as long as Randle did, his name would deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence.

If the Bengals were shrewd they would’ve snatched a good DT to pair with Geno in the past few drafts. The guys at DT opposite Atkins have been underwhelming at best. Randle, for several years, was paired with Henry Thomas. The Bengals have never had a DT of Thomas’ caliber lining up next to Geno. The Bengals team building strategy under Mike and Marvin always seems to be to seek decent units at all positions, but never turning merely decent into dominating. After 15 years, the closest the Bengals have had to a dominating position unit was the O lines of Big Willie, Steinbach, Braham, Bobbie Williams, and Levi Jones, or possibly the WR trio of Chad, T.J., and Henry when eligible. That’s pretty much it. Never a dominant D line, never a dominant LB crew, never a dominant secondary, dominant running backs, etc.