06-16-2021, 04:32 PM
(06-16-2021, 04:09 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: 1. He didn't win the SB
2. You're speaking from hindsight.
He is my favourite football player ever and I am arguably (probably?) his biggest fan on these boards, if there are no family present; at the time, on paper and with the teams' sitch at the time, you CANNOT shit on that move.
- You had 1 (2, actually) potential replacements that you needed to evaluate
- The guy was 36; OTs don't last as long.
Roaf: 35
Ogden: 33
Pace: 34
Willie: 33
Walter Jones: 34
McKinnie: 34
Webb: 35
Flozell Adams: 35
I can go on and on; even some of those HoFers above, didn't have great final seasons. Whitworth does seem to be the new crop of OTs that is playing well in advanced age (him, Peters, Duane Brown), but when the above precedent has been set, you can only say that's a bad move in hindsight.
Bengals took a gamble and they shit their pants; doesn't mean the gamble was bad from the outset (and that's a fact).
so those other OT that you listed all 33-35 yo. My question then is why in the hell would the Bengals even entertain signing a 34 yo RT for 10+M a year if Reiff has a good year this year?
Did i know that Whit was going to have an All Pro career after he left the Bengals? No, but it doesnt shock me because all i have to say is Bengals!
Everyone is already saying if Reiff has a good year we'll just sign him in the off season to a multi year contract. He's only going to be 34 yo and he's been healthy..blah blah blah.
I agree with you I'd never sign an OL at that age and multi year and for 10M a year.
