Did Bengals get schedule break over Pitt?

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(04-15-2016, 04:59 PM)Au165 Wrote: Disagree with this. Jackson and Traveathon are big losses on the level of losing Jones. Mathis and Harris are on par with losing Sanu. Then add on they lost both QBs and gained Mark Sanchez.....I'll take our off season over theirs.

Malik Jackson is crazy overrated. The guy played next to Von Miller, DeMarcus Ware, and Derek Wolfe. NFL.com has Jackson as being 5th in sacks for the Broncos in 2015. You say he's like losing Jones, I say he's like losing Gilberry (who was also the Bengals' 5th place sack total in 2015). You plug someone else who's halfway decent and they'll get some results with all that attention taken off of them.

I agree Travathen was a loss probably equivalent of Jones, in that the Bengals still have Green at WR and the Broncos still have Marshall at LB.

Mathis was a loss probably equivalent of losing Nelson. (Which in my mind is actually a step up from Sanu)

Harris isn't a loss like Sanu, more like when they lost Collins. He was their backup LT who was forced into being a starter. The Bengals didn't mind because they still had Whitworth. The Broncos didn't mind because they still have Okung. Heck, the Broncos still had two talented LT after Harris left, so they traded one of them away.

Losing Peyton Manning's mind/leadership hurts, but his arm was just shot. He'll be a loss like Leon Hall. Leadership, but clearly lost some things they can do on the field. Osweiler was on pace to have like a 20 TD/12 INT season. I'm pretty sure refusing to pay him $18m/yr was a huge plus, not a minus. The Broncos had the 31st Team QB Rating in the NFL last year and threw a 19 TD/23 INT ratio... and won the SB. Mark Sanchez can probably handle those lofty standards. Lol

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I really don't think the Broncos lost any more than the Bengals did. Maybe I was a bit off saying the Bengals lost more, but I would solidly call it a wash, and seeing as how they won the SB and the Bengals lost in the first round (again), kind of silly to think that a similar amount of loss this offseason would be in the Bengals favor.