Are we being realistic with Free Agency expectations?

[THE PISTONS]

(02-21-2022, 09:53 PM)Go Cards Wrote: Agree Zeitler was solid and yes we all know MB does not pay interior OL and is why he foolishly allowed Zeitler to walk and DeCastro would have commanded more money even. So pretty sure he would have walked too, I mean he even let Whit walk this same year. 

Yes these players are not solely responsible for teams record but are partly. We needed an OG and he helped immediately. 

steelers years leading up were  2010,  12-4 in Super Bowl, 2011, 12-4 playoffs, 2012, 8-8 no playoffs after drafting DeCastro
The Bengals in same years ......2010,  4-12 ,....................2011,  9-7 wildcard,  2012,  12-4 playoffs after Zeitler and Sanu

The steelers had 1,537 yds rushing this year and ....30 sacks in 449 attempts once every 14 passes with HOF QB
The Bengals had 1,745 yds rushing this season and 46 sacks in 528 attempts once every 11 passes with 2nd year QB

steelers RB's accounted for 7 TD's 
Bengals RB's accounted for 11 TD's

Before Tua's injury he was certainly ranked higher than Burrow, not that I would switch though. 
Would also add that if your using the prior drafts to say Zeitler did not help as much as record would suggest, then you would have to include all the additions Burrow received that helped Bengals record to leap forward this year would you not ?

Also Sanu only touched the ball 22 times his rookie season getting 16 receptions, 5 rushes, and 1 pass attempted.

Yet he did score TD on 25% of his catches with 4 TD's and on 100% of his passes for another TD. That is 5 TD's where the entire steelers RB's only accounted for 7 TD's total behind their greatest interior OL in franchise history. 

Also we can all agree that the ProBowl is somewhat a popularity contest with the steelers being way more popular than the Bengals. 

2021 PFF Ranking Zeitler 77.0 , DeCastro 0.0 

Maybe its just the advisor was right but Piano Man was worse at coaching him up than the steelers coaches were in the years to follow. 

Yet will concede that you win and are correct, yet just don't see it so cut and dry as you claim. Kind of like analytics. 

DeCastro didn't age well due to injuries and his play fell off a cliff at the end. He had multiple ankle surgeries that just didn't heal.

But, he was arguably better than Zeitler for most of his career. Although, if Zeitler played for the Steelers and was allowed to hold...I'm sure he'd have made multiple Pro Bowls, etc.