Tahj Brooks supposedly having a good minicamp

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(Yesterday, 06:46 PM)ochocincos Wrote: 4.1 YPC isn't so incredibly low that the Bengals need to worry about replacing/RBBC'ing CB.
It was good enough to have the Bengals go 5-3 after Erick All went down and CB played well.

We need to be honest with ourselves...Bengals are not going to go into true RBBC mode. They are a primary/bellcow RB team.
They will primarily give the rock to CB and give more opportunities to Brooks, Perine, or Moss if Brown has an injury or is incredibly unproductive (sub-3.0 YPC, for example).

What are you proposing the solution to be?
Have Brooks+Perine+Moss cut into Chase Brown's touches?
Two of those guys fresh are not gonna do (much) better than CB getting a bulk of the touches. Perine is a 3rd down specialist role player, Moss is pedestrian.
The only real hope is Brooks, but he's probably better suited in a Gio Bernard type of role.

As long as the OL run blocking is what it is, nearly every RB they put back there is going to have the same problems.

It is slightly below league average. 


I think people misunderstand my point. Erick All was an average Move TE. What he did is allow the Bengals to open up their rush offense along with their screen game. 

With their current personnel they are locked into mostly A and B gap runs which doesn't make use of what makes Chase Brown elite his straight line explosive speed. It will also highlight his weakness lateral agility and vision. It could potentially open Brown up to more body shots increasing his chance of injury (which is something Mixon didn't get enough credit for as an in-between the tackles runner).