03-10-2016, 07:21 PM
(03-10-2016, 07:10 PM)BengalChris Wrote: Why do people keep saying that Marvin Jones was the #3 or #4 receiving option? He had the 2nd most catches and receiving yards on the team.
I agree. I just bring up Eifert to show that we did have a decent #2 option.
In 2009 our entire passing game collapsed when Chris Henry went down with injury. Even though he had not caught a lot of passes he kept the defenses honest. When neither Caldwell or Coles prove to be any threat to get open deep against single coverage defenses bracket Ocho and shut down our passing game.
So in '09 the #2 WR position was crucial to our offense, but that was only because in '09 we had zero receiving threat from the TEs (Foschi, Coats) or the RB (Benson). With Eifert and Bernard we have some other threats that will soften the blow of losing Jones. If we just plug in a piece of garbage our offense will suffer, but it won't be as drastic as it was in '09.
