Yesterday, 05:47 PM
(01-09-2025, 11:52 PM)bfine32 Wrote: There you go. Now let Duke focus on getting the off-season off to a good start. He'll get interviewed by many folks later. He's a regular on Sirius XM
Not sure if you’re a fan of Tobin and the responses you provided are what you believe or just how you think Duke would respond ? If you believe what you posted then here’s my rebuttal if you were just hypothesizing about Tobin’s response then please disregard.
1. Far as the not developing O-line before Pollack we blamed Turner and Alexander but Tobin is the one variable that remains the same. How do you explain that ?
2. Dax played FS all of 2023 and sucked. He played outside CB in 2022 in that Cleveland Halloween game because Apple was hurt then Awuzie tore his ACL. He didn’t play good he got killed by Amari Cooper which I didn’t blame on him. After that Apple was back and Cam Britt-Taylor started for Awuzie all year with Hilton in the slot. So I don’t think playing corner that game stunted his growth at safety.
3. Far as the young guys Turner was bad all year he had 2 nice pass breakups in the Chargers game and fans went wild. Bengals spin he got hurt during his breakout game ? I think Dax looked solid at corner still a failure big picture for a 1st rd.pick. Also Dax played the Patriots and the Panthers in two of the games he played who have awful WR’s. He gave up the game winning Td vs. the Commanders so it was a small sample size of just 4 games. I actually think Newton can be a decent backup CB which I’ll take for a 5th rounder. Overall the bad picks outweighs the good by a landslide recently and is the main reason for where this team is at.
4. Part of being a safety is tackling which Geno Stone cannot do. He takes awful angles and gets ran over when in position which has nothing to do with getting used of Lou’s system it’s basic football. The Steelers 1st game was after the bye in week 13 and Stone was atrocious. We play in a run heavy division you need to tackle. He had a few nice picks off Cooper Rush and Will Levis. He went from horrific to bad he was still getting beat in pass coverage at the end of the year. Stone and Battle getting split in the Denver game for an easy TD in week 17. Rankins is a bad run defender and you signed him in a run heavy division? Signed him as a rusher when 3 of his 6 sacks came against the Bengals because are interior line blows.
5. We kept getting told we couldn’t resign Bates because we can’t pay everyone. Outside of Burrow what young good players have been resigned ?We have no other good young guys to resign because we’ve had awful drafts. We need to change the way we structure contracts. We have a dumb policy that we can’t negotiate contracts during the season which is idiotic. You could have still got Chase done during the season but chose not too because of a dumb policy.
