04-03-2016, 02:22 PM
(04-03-2016, 02:00 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: Gotta hear the reasoning on this one.
Dude has played balls out since day one in every role he has been asked to play.
Except he simply wasn't good last year. The team even realized that, that's why he both played less last year and was taken out a couple of times for Peko or Fisher later in the year.
2014: 43.9% of the offensive snaps
2015: 35.5% of the offensive snaps
If a guy is actually playing "balls out", you don't play him less. You do that with guys who aren't doing well.
Might be a great guy, hard worker, and good teammate, but he wasn't a good lead blocker last year. In 2014 Hill ranked 8th in the NFL with 2.3 yards per carry BEFORE contact, I don't know the exact number in 2015, but I am fairly certain it wasn't nearly as good, with the same OL.
If you can't have a proper FB (the Bengals seem to hate the idea now ever since they started the Dan Coats/Orson Charles experiments) I at least want the HB to be a big bruiser. The 306 lb Fisher could do that. Hewitt is too much finesse in his blocking at 6'4, 254, so if he can't get in perfect position, he can get outmuscled... Vonta Leach was 6'0, 260. Lorenzo Neal was 5'11, 255. That's a lead blocker.
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