When Will Players Learn?

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(11-17-2024, 12:42 PM)pally Wrote: That playing through serious injuries is usually to their own and the team's detriment

Sam Hubbard reveals this summer he was told surgery would knock him out for the entire 2024 season.

Instead, the longest-tenured player on the Bengals roster opted to push forward.

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— Charlie Clifford (@char_cliff) November 17, 2024

With the injury also to Myles Murphy through the first half or so of games plus Sample out all year, it really would have put a detriment on the DEs without Hubbard.
It would have meant Ossai and 6th round rookie Cedric Johnson rotating in opposite of Hendrickson.


Unless people think they Bengals would have gone out and spent money on a veteran fill-in that could have contributed ~5-7 sacks, but I doubt it.
They had their chance to get Ngakoue and hadn't pursued him.
The rest of the guys available are pretty terrible.

There's not enough urgency with this organization to have given up good draft picks for a stopgap DE either.