My Q&A with Duke Tobin

[SunsetBengal]

(01-28-2017, 11:26 AM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: I'm willing to give Cedric Ogbuehi a second chance this off season and through training camp for one reason:  I don't think Cedric played healthy in 2016 because to my eye he never seemed totally recovered from his college injury.  Last spring this pick made sense; Cedric graded high in all categories and his film from his games at Texas A&M showed an outstanding NFL prospect.  To me there are three potential reasons he underachieved last season:

(1) Being coached by the Piano Man
(2) Not being 100% healthy
(3) He's not NFL quality

Of these three reasons, I think (1) and/or (2) are more likely and (3) is a remote possibility.  If (3) turns out to be the case he needs to go because playoff teams don't have the luxury of experimenting with personnel.

Ogbuehi's failure to launch has put the team in quite a bit of a situation.  He, and Fisher, were supposed to be stepping up into the roles of Whitworth and Andre Smith, that hasn't happened.  Now, rather than focusing money on re-signing a guy like Kevin Zeitler, the team must desperately attempt to sign Whit for another year or two.  Hopefully the draft is kind to the Bengals this year, and they hit strong on all of their picks, so that a guy like Ogbuehi becomes expendable in the near future.

Bonus would be if Paul Alexander woke up one morning, admitted the error of his ways, and humbly submitted his resignation to the team.