Thoughts on Dre K ?

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(03-11-2016, 03:04 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: Yes Dre needs to stay hes was very good most of the year last year.

#1 corner on what was the #1 Scoring defense for much of the season.

Hes under contract for this season as we picked up his option...   So extenstion will probly be explored during camp

One of the articles on the Bengals front page made mention of some of our cap space being allotted to getting extensions for Dre and Zeitler before the season begins.

(03-12-2016, 10:10 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: It normally doesn't take 5 years. By normally, I mean for everyone who isn't a bust.

Jones looked bad then because he was out of the league for a year prior to that. He didn't play in 2009 or 2007. Anyone who is out of football for 2 of the last 3 years will be rusty.

There's a pretty big difference between not wanting the 9th worst CB in the league at $7.5m and demanding a perennial Pro Bowler. The fact that you think it can only be one extreme or the other is the truly hysterical part.

With the amount of injury time, you can argue that Dre was out of football for that same length of time.  You have to admit, not being on the field (practice or other) limits growth during that time period.

(03-13-2016, 11:27 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: What I also know is that Dre was the 2nd highest targeted CB in the NFL at 112 targets. The only person targeted more was Marcus Peters, and that was because he was a starting rookie CB, but at least he turned all those targets into a good season by tying for the INT lead (Dre had 0) and becoming a Pro Bowler and 2nd Team All-Pro in his first year in the NFL. He was the 18th overall pick, awfully close to Dre's disappointing 17th overall spot.

No matter how you spin it, Kirkpatrick is a bust and just not very good.

How is that significant to his performance?

We were involved in quite a few shootouts, and we blew out the opponent on a number of occasions.

Both of those situations cause an opponent to heavily throw the ball, and the starting CBs are going to be targeted the most.

Were I the opposing QB, I think I would also chose to attack the side of the first year starter over the seasoned veterans on the opposite wide out and slot receiver.

Having said that, I don't see how targets is a significant metric of performance.