Of course we chose Jonah

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(10-11-2024, 07:30 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: I'll never understand his philosophy of drafting and valuing positions from the outside in. Everyone knows that in order to build a fundamentally sound football team, you work from the inside and progress out. This team has always paid up the money for OT, DE, WR, CB and treated interior OL/DL (save a rare exception or two) along with LB, S, and TE and treated them as tertiary positions that could just be filled by warm bodies.

Karras is okayish, but I was always so frustrated while we had a 12-13 year stretch of Kyle Cook, Russel Bodine, Billy Price, and Trey Hopkins manning C. Meanwhile I was watching Drew Brees, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, late-Romo/early-Dak, or the Matt Ryan SB year. They always seemed to have a good Center so that their pocket wasn't collapsed from the inside and they could always step up into it. That interior pressure always seems to be the killer and preventing a QB from being able to set their feet and make quality throws instead of off their backfoot or whatnot.

Now you see the Chiefs trying to three-peat, the Lions become relevant, the Eagles prior to this year (then their C retired). 

Could never understand how the Bengals could spend so long undervaluing the only position that touches the ball more than the QB, and is the literal centerpiece of your offense. Seeing Alex Mack go to Atlanta and immediately upgrade their offense both running and passing, and then they went to the SB. It stung. Lol