The double standard....

[BengalsRocker]

(01-13-2017, 02:53 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: First round picks need to start by day 1 of year 2 at the latest. Ideally should be day 1 starters.

Ogbuehi just sucks. When it was clear he was not an NFL-caliber starter (what, after like 4-6 games, tops?) he needed to be benched. Unless he makes a historic comeback of epic proportions, I don't see how he can transform what we saw this year into anything other than a huge bust.

Kirkpatrick was still a bad 1st round pick. He finally turned into a decent starter, but it took 5 years and now he's a FA.

I agree.  Some picks are just busts.  It happens.  Look around the league.  This isn't some witch hunt.  Maybe he just sucks.

(01-13-2017, 07:58 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: I don't buy the sit guys for a year bs. If you draft a weak minded individual and start them right away and they struggle yes you may permanently damage their psyche and career. But if a guy is that weak minded even if he sits a year he will still be damaged if he sucks.

With the newer restrictions on practice there is no experience like real game experience. If you want a guy to get better you have to play him.

A lot of early round OL picks have struggled lately. Ogbuehi isn't alone. He could still get better. But they guys he couldn't beat out in college to be a starting tackle suck in the NFL and after two years he looks like he could be in the same boat.

The problem is our coaches. Did Burkhead magically get better in the last month of his 4th year in the league. Or was that our ******* coaches failing to play somebody? I'm going to go with ******* coaches.

For some reason Marvin lets Paul Alexander start whoever he wants. Everybody else has to "earn the opportunity" but if you are a Paul Alexander heart throb you can be plugged right in. Bodine was just handed the job. We let Andre walk and plugged Ogbuehi in at RT when Ogbuehi says it isn't even his position. Our OL sucked all year. Yet we deactivated Westerman for every game but 1 I think. While we continued to play Boling with a bad shoulder. Winston who blows, and Bodine. Westerman did not get better sitting and watching the same way Ogbuehi didn't get better after we wasted his rookie year.

Fej made play after play after play when he got like 10 snaps earlier in the year. One would think that could "earn the opportunity" to see some more playing time, but no, not on a Marvin Lewis team.

I agree with all of this ! ^

I'm just waiting for some ass clown to come riding in here to try and debate it.