12-17-2023, 03:10 PM
(12-17-2023, 01:44 PM)pally Wrote: A month ago, before Pittsburgh, I started a thread asking who was going to step up in Joe's absence and put the team on their shoulders. After that game the collective answer was nobody. I think in the ensuing 3 weeks we have some better answers.
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The easiest and obvious answer is Jake Browning.
Who else deserves some kudos for their play or leadership?
A month ago, if you would have said that the Bengals were going to let all of their TEs walk at the end of the season, I would have been fine with that.
Their ''emergence" is mainly due to Browning looking for them more than the WRs and, in fact, he birddogs the TEs too much . . . Browning's INT? There were three defenders near Irv Smith and Tee was wide open and uncovered over the middle.
While I don't think that Joe is going to target them as much as Browning has, I definitely think that he's noticing it and filing it away.
Only users lose drugs.
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