10-10-2024, 09:21 PM
(10-10-2024, 12:47 PM)J24 Wrote: Yep; losing Reader is also a part of the decline!
It never made sense to get rid of Bates!
The Bengals defense was terrible last year and Reader was here.
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Only if you've completely forgotten and glossed over the fact that Bates was bad in 2 of his 4 seasons with Lou, okay in 1, and great in 1 and the great one was in 2020 or 3 years prior to when he needed paid. He was magic in the 2021 playoffs, but he was nondescript in the 2022 playoffs.
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The Bengals mistakes were not failing to re-sign those guys. It was having a bad DC, drafting poorly, and signing bad FAs to replace them.
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