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(01-25-2022, 12:31 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Isn't it also fair to say that the season would have been perfectly fine if he wasn't playing like such hot trash prior to the bye? (AKA, the majority of the regular season.) They had 3 games before the bye they lost by 3 points each, which you can't help but wonder if a guy who wasn't playing like the worst CB in the league was there, would it have been a W instead?

I'm pretty sure Waynes is on the bench because he's not good. He got the start Week 15 when he came back and put up a 47.4 PFF grade. His making $15m/yr has about as much to do with his ability as it did when Fred would bring up the FA contract the Cowboys gave to Nate Livings.

I guess I am trying to say... if you hit .200 for half of the season, and .270 for the other half of the season, you're not a .270 hitter... you're a .235 hitter, which just means you're a bad hitter that had a good stretch of play.

He was our 4/5th CB when the season started. We had no one better. Just joined a new team and quickly found himself as a starter. I think it’s very reasonable for a guy in that situation to take some time to get comfortable in the defense, comfortable with the other starters, with the coaches, etc. players can improve. Would not be the first time a DB turned their career around in Cincy.

This isn’t Todd Frazier being amazing until the all star break every year and then turning into a scrub down the stretch. It’s a guy who’s been here one season, was viewed as a total bust coming in, then turning his career around as the year went on.

I’d also say your comparison doesn’t really work well in this case. Hitters in baseball are often very streaky. Defenders in football don’t show the same inconsistencies. They may have a bad game here or there, play injured, end up in the wrong system and struggle or get beat by a WR who’s just hands down better (Chase/Jefferson/Lamb/etc), but we really don’t see the wild swings over extended periods of time very often that would support your comparison in the NFL.