{The Ultimate Bengals Offseason Extravaganza Thread}

[TJHoushmandzadeh's Shiny Shoes]

(03-17-2025, 12:17 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: We also played really weak teams late in the year.

Murphy had 0 sacks. Correlating him playing to the defense being better doesn't pass the test.

Sure, they were some of the weaker Os but we also shipped 44 points to an awful Steelers O.

I don’t care about individual sack numbers if we can average under 17 points, which is what we did in 7 games with Murphy playing 40%+ of snaps

(03-17-2025, 12:21 PM)jj22 Wrote: It's not fair to the rookies to expect starters to help win a championship from rounds 3-6. With 6 picks you guys sound like you are expecting them to all hit. And as we currently stand we need all 6 hit and play. I'm not sure that expectation is the definition of a good draft or realistic.

We don’t need all six to hit. I’m after one star and one good starter. That could be like 2020 (minus Burrow as he was no.1 overall) when we drafted Tee and Logan; 2018 (Bates and Hubbard); maybe 2017 (Mixon and Lawson), 2013 (Eifert and Gio), 2012 (Zeitler and Marvin Jones) but definitely 2011 (AJ and Dalton) and 2010 (Geno and Carlos). We do need some of our recent D picks to step up - particularly at CB. We do need a FA guard. The rookies might not be week 1 starters but I hope they are contributors by the time the playoffs come around.