Will We Improve The Line This Offseason?

[Shake n Blake]

(10-07-2023, 09:46 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: This has actually been a consistent issue the last 20 or so years. Since 2003, Cincinnati has a had top 16 rushing offense by YPC five times, never ranking higher than 9th. The run game has been inefficient for years now. You have to go back to the 90's to find the first instance of Cincinnati stringing together two consecutive seasons within the top 16.

Believe me, I know. That long streak is one of the biggest pieces of evidence I used to use against Paul Alexander. I'm sure Wyche's Warrior will remember.

It's possible that the problem has just been the 2 line coaches we had for the vast majority of that.

I have also considered that our insistence on having a "bell cow" could be a factor. Maybe some of these 1000 yard rushers just weren't that good. We just used them a lot.

I'd definitely lean more towards Piano Man and Mr. Pollack being the problem, though.