Top 5 Bengals Of All Time

[Essex Johnson]

(05-21-2016, 07:25 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Not confused at all. You said that Chad is not statistically superior to Curtis because Chad played in a more pass friendly era.  The easy way to tell who was more dominant regardless of era or rules is to compare both Chad and Curtis to their peers.  Chad dominated his era.  Curtis did not.

Chad was a 6x pro bowler and 2x first team all-pro.
Curtis was a 4x pro bowler.

Chad placed top 10 in catches 3 times.
Curtis placed top 10 in catches 0 times.

Chad placed top 10 in yards 5 times.
Curtis placed top 10 in yards 2 times.

Chad placed top 10 in TDs 3 times.
Curtis placed top 10 in TDs 4 times.

Comparing them to their peers (which eliminates "era" from the discussion), Chad beats Curtis in every possible category other than TDs, where Curtis has only a slight edge. I'm not saying that Curtis is a "bum". I'm just showing how Chad was more dominant than Curtis. 

Well lets look what you left out

Curtis placed top 10 in YPC 5 times ( lead league once and came in second once(  
Chad placed top 10 in YPC 0 times.

What hurts Curtis is he stopped being a starter the last few years of his career but here is  something that I feel is amazing stat when you look at six years of Curtis prime years.   Curtis caught over 41 percent of all the TD's thrown during those  6 years for the Bengals compare that to Chad who caught 31 percent of all the TDs thrown during 6 of his prime years which is still a good number.


I thought I would try to compare those numbers to a couple peers comparable to Curtis and Chad during six prime seasons

Curtis 41 percent, Carmichael 38 percent, Branch 37 percent

Chad  31 percent,  Ward 38 percent, Harrison 38 percent and Holt 45 percent.


In the end I think there is a good argument for Curtis over Chad especially when you look at their prime years as starters and the impact they had for their team but really either one could be in top 5, so im going to go 5 Curtis and 5A Chad..lol