You drafted a Guard in the 1st Round...he developed...now Pay Zeitler!

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(01-20-2017, 04:35 PM)CanadianBengal Wrote: Dalton struggles with pressure up the middle. That is why Bodine has really hurt us. The elite QBs can move around in pocket and keep eyes downfield. Dalton can't. He gets flushed quickly. Therefore solid G play is really important. The poor running game falls more on lack of decisiveness of Hill. Gio and Rex hit whole quick and got decent yardage. Pay Zeits. Why roll over money for future extensions from this year and create holes.

I get it that you can't afford to keep everyone. The key is who you choose to spend money on. 4 mil on Mauluagepa and 7 mil on Adam Jones doesn't seem like a a good use of cap space. Zeits has been very good every year. So has Whit. Both have earned fair contracts. Some team is going to pay them. Why shouldn't it be the Bengals. They don't sign FAs from other teams. They need to keep their own and address other holes with early draft picks.

ALL quarterbacks struggle against pressure up the middle. That's why everyone wants to create it. Do you not remember 2013 when the Bengals beat Rodgers and Brady?

Brady put up a 52.2 QB Rating, and Rodgers put up a 64.5 QB Rating in those games.

Why? Because no quarterback, regardless of how elite they are can handle constant pressure up the middle and be successful, and the Bengals did just that.

Cracks me up when people try to make it a Dalton problem. It's a quarterback problem league-wide. It's why other teams try not to have garbage play at center, including ones who are not constantly snapping the ball at ankle height.

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That said, Zeitler has not been very good every year. If he was very good every year, he'd be a Pro Bowler/All-Pro and the Bengals would actually have a legit running game.

A draft pick (or Westerman) can replace him before spending $10m/yr on a Guard.

Heck, he struggled a pretty good amount in 2016. People have been saying "but look at the people he has around him!" to which I reply.. if you're going to pay a guard $10m/yr, shouldn't that not matter? If he needs good players next to him in order to be good, how can he be worth that much?