03-25-2024, 02:14 PM
(03-25-2024, 12:29 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Fair, but it's no secret the Bengals OL isn't athletic enough to run a wide zone, which is what they had tried to run multiple times in the past.
Being limited athletically can force a team to operate in a certain way. It can also mean having difficulties when going against some faster, more athletic players on the opposite side of the ball.
That's what I take away from this.
But to your point, being the most athletic doesn't necessarily make someone a great player. That was stated in the OP and also stated by Kent himself. It's just a tool to help in evaluations.
EDIT - And Relative Athletic Score can help indicate if they have the athletic chops to succeed in pass blocking and/or run blocking that the team is asking them to do. For example, if you are asking your OL to move a good amount, they probably need to be pretty athletic to do that.
Ok, fair enough. But as the saying goes (sometimes you have to many tools and not enough hands).
