Why Not?

[casear2727]

(03-10-2022, 11:45 AM)KillerGoose Wrote: There is a lot to unpack here, so I am trying to avoid a giant wall of text. You are greatly overstating how important a run game is. Running the ball provides balance and ambiguity to an offense, but that is about it. It's a very poor predictor of points scored and overall team success, so getting rid of a WR and using the justification of "well our run game will improve" is essentially worthless. Being able to convert short yardage situations is very important and a running game is very valuable there, but it is all passing otherwise. The justification would be to keep Burrow upright and improve short yardage performance. I think there are likely genuine arguments for trading Boyd, but using "run game improvements" as a justification is silly. 

And no, they weren't exclusively three-step at the end of the season. From week 13 on through the Super Bowl, Cincinnati was right in the middle of the league of deep passing %. They weren't as aggressive, but they weren't conservative, either. 

Deep passing stats doesnt necessarily correlate with drops, please provide us any deep routes that were not simple go routes....  we have so much more we could do downfield..  Our stats simply show Joe can be accurate and we have 2 guys that get the ball, very promising.  But no deep posts or down the field double moves...

We cant say that the running game is not important and then pay our running back 11-13M.  I would bet a lot that Zac and Brian would say they would love for the running game to be a threat and not just provide provides balance and ambiguity to an offense, especially while we have Mixon.

I do agree that will be the case once Mixon is gone and we dont pay a RB that kind of money ever again with Burrow.

I am not getting rid of a WR, I am replacing the WR with a younger, faster and 9M cheaper version, with an added draft pick, and millions to add to improving the oline.  

As this debate tends to stray from position to player I repeat that I love Boyd, he may be too talented for the priority we give him in this offense, but if we are to be critical and not fanboys, we can see that 4 receptions per game, 28 yds in the playoffs, a crucial blunder in the redzone that could have sealed the SB, his only dropped pass late in the 4th Qtr of the SB do not warrant him making more than 4 oline starters combined.

I think Boyd will be here the next 2 years and this is just us guys talking, but if we were serious like the Patriots we would trim the fat everywhere and put the money into the places that are most crucial to contending every year.  WR3 and RB are at the bottom of the priority list on offense in my opinion, but of course the highest paid on my beloved Bengals.

Again I appreciate your cordiality and explaining your points.