What Pollack wants in OL

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(03-03-2022, 04:54 PM)Housh Wrote: I’m loving the IQ from the coaches

Yes we want a top 3 passing attack, but we also need Mixon to get off to help Burrow and because Mixon is a 3 down back making 12 million. We have to justify that contract.

Teams that had a Top 5 passing attack in 2021:
Buccaneers
Chargers
Cowboys
Chiefs
Rams

Top 5 teams in RB spending in 2021:
Titans
Giants
Broncos
Bengals
Browns

The league average for team spending on RBs for 2022 is $8.4mill in cap.
Bengals currently slated to spend about double that - $16.5mill.

Bengals need to pick an identity and build around that.
Stop trying to be everything.

I'm just thinking that if the Bengals really did think when they drafted Burrow that they wanted to be pass-heavy, why give Mixon a 4-year, $48 mill contract? You could have put that money toward OL instead.
Given Mixon was still under contract for 2020, Bengals could have just planned to draft a new RB1 in 2021 with either the Carman or one of the 4th round picks. I would have been ok with Khalil Herbert, Elijah Mitchell, Chuba Hubbard, or Michael Carter as the new RB1. All of them were taken on Day 3.