04-08-2021, 01:30 AM
(04-07-2021, 11:15 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I really don't care what other teams have done because other teams have different needs.
We already have two very good WRs under contract for 3 more years and we only need 3 starters.
On the O-line we have Jonah who could possibly be good (but can't stay healthy) under contract for 3 more years and Reiff under contract for one more year. And we need 5 starters.
The Bengals are running 4 & 5 wide sets a ton now w Joe Burrow. The WRs last year got horrible separation. Been that way for 3-4 years.
I cannot imagine the Bengals running 5 wide w Boyd, Higgins, Thomas, Tate, & Stanley Morgan.
^ That would actually be a WORSE 5 man unit than the starting O line.
I get the point that 5 of them are on the field at once all the time. I just see a way deeper oline class this year where guys in the 2nd or 3rd would have previously been 1st & 2nd rounders. The WR group is deep this year, but weird. The better guys after Chase that are expected to be there in the 2nd are all under 6' tall and don't really fit the Bengals.
Chase reminds me of a bigger, faster, stronger Steve Smith. Sewell is turning out to be more mythical than real. Measured just under 6'5" with 33 1/4" arms. That is wayyyyy on the smaller side for a a top tier OT. The Bengals cannot take a G at 5.
