11-20-2016, 12:00 PM
(11-18-2016, 11:47 PM)J24 Wrote: Anyone that knows the Bengals knows this isnt exactly true. For example we started Nate livings over kevin Mathis for a couple of years and we started Robert Geathers over Carlos Dunlap for years. Also Tank Johnson over Geno Atkins during Genos rookie season. There isn't a team in professional sports that plays politics more than the Bengals.
Mathis was splitting time as starter with Livings until he got injured in '09. In '10 Mathis did not deserve to start.
Geathers started simply because he was solid against the run and we rotated D-linemen. Dunlap generally played more than half of the snaps.
Geno Atkins did not arrive here as the most dominate DT in the league. Instead he was a 4th round pick who had not even dominated on the college level.