Hoping Bengals RUN OFTEN Preseason Game 1

[kevin]

(08-04-2021, 01:34 PM)ochocincos Wrote: I agree that run blocking will be important for this team, and there is an expectation that Pollack being back improves this area of the offense.
However, I'm just not sold that they have the right players to have a really good run game.
The best run blocker out of all the projected starters (Williams, Spain, Hopkins, XSF, and Reiff) had a 62.4 run blocking grade on PFF, which was Spain.

Spain - 62.4 (283 run block snaps)
Hopkins - 62.1 (338 run block snaps)
Reiff - 60.8 (436 run block snaps)
Williams - 53.4 (205 run block snaps)
XSF - 52.1 (138 run block snaps)

Maybe Pollack can turn water into wine, but I'm not expecting more than a middle-of-the-pack running game this season.

You list 5 starters before preseason game one.  Get all the Blockers off the bench and in there to run block against Tampa, and keep bringing in fresh legs using all the running backs.  If there is some Blockers on the bench better than the sad sacks they have been using, find out in preseason game one.  If the Bengals can not learn how to Run Block, then Defenses will go after and kill Burrow.  The KEY to getting the most out of Burrow, Boyd, Higgins, Chase is to keep Defenses Off Balance with a Good Running Attack.  Since Preseason Game One does not count in Regular Season Standings, Get these lard butts off their rear ends and give every one of them a chance to RUN BLOCK.  I want to see every Blocker in camp in this game Run Blocking.  Who Knows, we may just have a Blocking Monster we haven't given a chance to yet.