Why am I so damn optimistic?

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(09-16-2021, 01:40 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Yeah, I liked OJ Howard in college and wanted us to draft him but he has been disappointing in the NFL in my eyes. At this point
would I take a flyer on Howard? Of course, but he would have to earn his way and be a decent blocker. I think we will see more 
targets to the TE as you say when the weather changes, windy, rainy, snowy days. When the weather is good the WR's will get 
the targets and that is what you want as we saw last Sunday. That trio is no joke.

Speaking of being optimistic, I watched the game again and damn is our DT room deep. BJ Hill, Ogunjobi, Reader and Tupou all
had a great game and were just constantly eating up the middle of that Viking OL. Remember Synric predicting this before the 
game along with my prediction of Hendrickson having a great game as he did.

If Rashod Hill didn't hold or false start so much Trey could of had 4 or 5 sacks lol

The "Hear that Podcast Growling" podcast with Paul Dehner, Jr. and Jay Morrison was rolling off some AMAZING stats.  I couldn't jot them down as I was mowing on a tractor at the swim club, but there were a few that I remembered:

In 2020, the Bengals DTs had a TOTAL of 3 sacks and something like 36 pressures.

In week 1 of 2021, they had 3 sacks (and a 4th negated by penalty) and 15 pressures.  They also forced 6 holding penalties (one was declined).

That is absolutely insane.

It is both a reflection of how piss poor we were in the middle (which screws the LBs) and how much improved they are in 2021 (and we saw how the LBs similarly improved).