A Hidden Positive with Higgins Out

[Nicomo Cosca]

(11-10-2024, 01:51 AM)J24 Wrote: The last Baltimore game was an outlier. The prior data shows that the offense is substantially better with Tee in it.

Outside of @Baltimore game Chase is averaging 48 yards and only has 1 Td in the 4 games without Tee. With Tee he is averaging 104 yards per game and has 5 Tds.

Also the Bengals are 1-3 in those games and averaging 23.25 points vs 28.6 points with Tee.

We’ve been over this before but Chase has had enough games now where he produced without Tee that you can’t really call it an outlier.

2024 vs BAL - 264 yards 3 TD’s
2023 vs ARZ - 192 yards 3 TD’s
2023 vs HOU - 124 yards 1 TD
2023 vs Pitt - 81 yards
2022 vs Pitt - 129 yards 1 TD (Tee left this game and only played 26% of the snaps)
2022 vs CLV - 119 yards 1 TD
2021 vs Pitt - 65 yards 2 TD’s
2021 vs JAX - 77 yards

At the end of the day does having Tee out there make things easier on both Joe and Ja’Marr? Ofc it does. But do they completely fall off a cliff every time they don’t have him? No. The 12 personnel stuff they were working into the offense this season was probably a preview of what the post-Tee era will look like.