02-01-2016, 01:41 AM
(01-31-2016, 06:33 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: TO was a beast in stripes. Most of the people who knocked him were Carson apologists who had to come up with a reason for his 20 int's and 5 pick-sixes that year. Heck, TO almost single handedly beat the Steelers for us.
I feel like the "blame for 2010" got shuffled around until it became clear a number of people wouldn't return in 2011 and then they sort of became "the problems" by default. It was originally Benson, Chad, TO, Marvin Lewis, Mike Brown (of course), and Carson...but Carson was sort of gaining favor by putting up some bizarrely good games with Simpson and Caldwell when Chad and TO were out.
Then when Marvin and Benson were sticking around more of the blame went to the guys who weren't coming back. Anyways, I don't think there is any reason TO should hang his head for 2010, but that's just me.