01-16-2017, 01:47 PM
(01-16-2017, 12:46 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Of course they weren't #1 and we had more weapons than AJ Green. We had 1,000 rusher in Cedric Benson, one of the best TEs in the league in Jermaine Gresham, good change of pace back in Brian Leonard, and complimentary receiver in Jerome Simpson.
It just makes Andy sound more awesome if you suggest he went against the #1 D in the NFL with no weapons.
1. The Bengals ranked 27th in yards per carry in 2011. The run game sucked. Plus in the game we are discussing, Benson had a whopping 12 yards on 8 touches. What an amazing weapon, eh? Dalton actually outgained Benson by 3 yards on the ground.
2. The only people who think Gresh was ever a top of the line TE is you and afew of his bigger fans. He ranked 18th among TEs in receiving yards in the year we're discussing.
3. Jerome Simpson? Psst. If you're going to pretend to be objective, you shouldn't promote Simpson as a weapon.
4. I suppose Leonard was a solid change of pace guy. I would never have called him a huge asset, but at least he played better than Benson in the playoff game, although that didn't require much.
5. And yeah the Texans weren't #1 in defense. They were #2. Y'all should eat that and move the goal posts to something else.
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And none of this is even touching on Marvin Lewis, his 0-7 playoff record, or how all 4 QBs have played terribly and led horrific offensive performances. I choose not to think it's a coincidence. You choose to blame the QBs. Except McCarron I guess. We certainly don't want to compare his first playoff game to Dak's, right?
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