The Slot is Dead

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(06-21-2024, 06:02 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: The Boyd slander in this thread is absurd.

Good riddance he's gone? The best blessing in disguise we've had in years? That's some cold and disrespectful shit for a guy who was an absolute professional and very productive for us for years.

I'm not saying Boyd's best days are ahead of him, they're likely not, but there's going to be a time when Higgins gets dinged up (he always does) and you're going to have Chase, a 3rd round rookie, and a 6th round pick with 116 career receiving yards out there at WR... or Chase, Irwin, Sample, and a TE who had 244 yards last year and 362 yards the year before.... and you should remember this thread then.

Also people acting like Boyd force's Zac's hand in offensive concepts as if the first 2 years of Zac without Chase he didn't do the exact same shit. Or the first year without Chase OR Higgins we didn't still run a primarily 3 WR offense with a combination of Boyd, Ross, A Tate, and Erickson despite that being a trashpile of a WR group. But sure, it's Boyd's fault and now we're free from his tyranny of dictating how Zac's offense will be.

This day came. Very few on here saw the red flags in the summer. Most here said Boyd is washed, some claimed it was our “deepest and best” position group. In reality, it was top heavy with one of the guys very big injury concerns, and then unproven across the board. This was a huge and inexpensive hole that the bengals didn’t address. What a colossal failure.

Having a TJ Housh, or Boyd type player that can get the 7/70 stat line, most likely results in different play calls on 3rd/4th and 2.

We have guys who can’t separate, outside of Chase, so burrow needs to wait longer and gets blown up. What burrow did last night was magical, but there is no quick outlet for burrow.