2024 Defensive Personnel Failures

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(12-04-2024, 04:37 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: That is mad money for how terrible he has been. Stone should be out of the league selling cars or something. 

Should of just trusted in the draft process and started Tycen like I said.

You're different from me.
I never cared for Anderson.
Dude had ST written all over him.
Definitely not a FS in my eyes. Maybe a SS though.

I wasn't really in the camp of moving away from Dax Hill yet, but had I been, I wanted someone like Kevin Byard, Justin Simmons, or maybe Darnell Savage.
I remember when I saw Stone was signed, I was like, "WHO?!?!"
Dude wasn't even planned to be the starting FS for BAL in 2023. It was supposed to be Hamilton and Williams primarily with Stone as a rotational flex between SS and FS.
Prior to going down to injury, Marcus Williams was playing 86% of the defensive snaps. Hamilton played 91%.
Stone ended up playing 82% last year in part because of Williams missing 6 games, but prior to that he had never played more than 41% of defensive snaps.
This year, he's at 97% with CIN.

With all playoff teams having 8+ wins, Bengals need a ton of help to get into the playoff and if they're not getting into the playoffs, there's no reason to care to win any more games, IMO. I know some don't agree, but draft position is really all that matters if not making the playoffs.
I'd actually consider benching Stone the rest of the way and giving his reps to Anthony/Anderson to see if they can amount to anything before deciding to get a fun, new FS this offseason.
Gimme Starks or Watts in the draft if going that route.