9 hours ago
(10 hours ago)ERIC1 Wrote: Oh just stop man..even with a patched up offensive line missing two starting tackles last year burrow and the offense kicked butt..
No they didn't. The put up a lot of yards, but had a chance to win/put away good teams and they failed almost every time.
We were very productive down 2 scores or early on. Much less so 1 score either way or even or late on.
NE, KC, both Baltimore games, and Chargers were games the O had a chance to win & failed. Multiple chances. Lost shootout to WASH. Couldn't keep up with Philly. Yeah, Mac missed a FG vs Chargers, but it isn't like we marched down and scored a TD and ended them.
We were 6th in scoring. Eagles were better on points per drive and almostcscored as many points. No way we were better than 7th offensively. 7th/32 is good, but not great or dominant.
And we outright sucked @$$ in short yardage.
The line and the running game are also bad. And we don't have a healthy 2 way TE on the roster.
A kick ass offense wins you games. A kick ass offense gets crucial first fowns late and ends up in victory formation late. We RARELY get there.
The Denver game was the high point. The O did perform well vs terrible teams (Carolina, Raiders, Tenn).
We got a FG late to go up 10 vs Carolina. We legit blew the Raiders away and hammered Tennessee. And Burrow legit bailed us out after we slmost blew the Denver game. But even there we went punt, missed FG, TD in OT.
Yeah, Mac missed a FG, but we got the ball first & punted, too.
Yes, the D was a much bigger problem. Yes, the FG unit cost us 2 games. But the O eon us exactly 1 game vs a non-garbage team. Not great.
I have seen many Bengal teans with better or as good offenses than whatcwe had last year. Anderson teams. Esiason teams. Palmer teams. Dalton teams. In terms of straight scoring, we were better than 6th in: 1981 (3rd), 1982 (4th), 1985 & '86 (3rd), 1988 (1st), 1989 (4th), 1996 (5th), 2005 (4th).
6th in 1969, 1977, 2013.
Burrow is great. Chase is great. The offense isn't. Last 4 years: 7th, 7th, 16th (Buerow injured), 6th.
