06-10-2015, 07:33 PM
(06-10-2015, 01:42 PM)djs7685 Wrote: Not really. Hawkins had 77 targets so he was pretty much the #2 receiver even though he was in the slot.
I'm not arguing saying that our receiving options were absolutely amazing in 2011 or 2012, but let's not make it sound like Armon Binns was a huge part of the Bengals' gameplan in those years. The Binns experiment lasted for around 6 weeks of the 2012 season and that's about it.
Binns only started 6 games in 2012, but don't forget that Brandon Tate got 3 starts as well. The rest of the starts went to very green versions of Sanu and MLJ. It wasn't a good situation. Before that, it was Jerome Simpson as the #2. The run game flat out sucked until last year really. I think the weapons around Andy were a bit overrated for the first 3 years (outside of AJ, of course).
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
