Just Lazy: Andre Smith Returns

[Shake n Blake]

(07-27-2019, 10:15 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: The problem with having a mulligan year is a guy like Green will be 32 next year. Atkins and Dunlap are around the same age. Our best players are at the end of their primes.

Yeah we needed to show urgency for the sake of AJ Green, Dalton, Atkins and Dunlap. Those guys are all getting on in years. That's why this ho-hum free agency bothered me more than normal. Well that and I wanted to see Zac Taylor start off with a bang.

(07-28-2019, 12:49 AM)jason Wrote: Didn't they trot him out at LT toward the end of the 2017 season? I had better things to do with my Sundays by the last few weeks, but I was still around here, and followed them... I just remember them shuffling the line when the season was lost.

I wanted to say he did, but I can't find anything on him starting any games at left tackle. I did find this snippet from Rotoworld: 

Quote:Entering the league as Cincy's No. 6 overall pick in the '09 draft, this move reeks of a franchise content with mediocrity. Rather than stashing a high-upside unknown, the Bengals recycled a subpar player they initially let walk for his poor performance prior to last season.

They also pointed out that he had disastrous grades in pass pro both with the Cards in 2018 and the Bengals in 2017. Plus run blocker though. I guess that's all that matters.

(07-28-2019, 01:40 AM)t3r3e3 Wrote: Cue up the full blown rebuild in 2020 or 21.  The team has squandered  the core years of Geno/AJ/Dunlap with nothing to show for it.  The decline of each is coming.   Dalton will end up getting replaced either next year with Tua/Herbert/Fromm or in 2021 with Lawrence.

IF that's the case, we have an automatic 5 years of excuse making on the horizon.