Are Rankins and Stone the worst FA haul of all time seeing the money we gave them?

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(Yesterday, 10:09 AM)CJD Wrote: Can you believe we passed on resigning Reader (2 years, 22 million with Detroit), someone we knew was good in our defense, to sign Rankins (2 years, 24.5 million with us), who was an average player when he wasn't playing the Bengals?

In 116 career games, Sheldon has 30.5 sacks. A little over 1/4 a sack per game.

Against the Bengals, in 4 games, he has 6 sacks. 1.5 sacks per game.

It almost defies belief that they would make such a bad "swap."

Rankins has not been a good ROI, but reader is having his worst year since 2020. Look at the Lions Rushing YPG last year (88.8, 2nd the NFL) and then this year (100.8, 6th in the NFL). The bengals last year (126.2) vs this year (127.3).

I’m not sure that it would have had that much of an impact, objectively.

In fact, the bengals have been (arguably) ok at stopping running backs, only 3 over 100 yards on the season (Stevenson, Barkley, and Hubbard). The bengals have faced the top 3 rush yards leaders a total of 4x (Barkley, Hubbard and Henry). Those 3 have accumulated 2,929 yards across 29 games, good for 101ypg. In those 4 games, those guys are getting 93 YPG against the bengals.

It’s been a lot of mental breakdowns, especially against mobile QBs. QBs have rushed for over 325 yards against the bengals (25% of the team total).

Notable rushing QBs. Jayden Daniels, Daniel Jones, Dorian Thompson, Lamar Jackson (2x) and Jalen hurts. Lamar, Daniels and Hurts are rushing QBs1-3 on the season AND Jones isn’t far back at 6th.

Looking ahead, they don’t face as many dual threat Runningback, the biggest threat is Bo Nix.

It’s time for this defense to play fundamental football without the threat of rushing QBs.