Marvin Lewis playing rookies

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(03-08-2017, 03:00 AM)Benton Wrote: not trying to poke holes, but there are pretty different approaches and successes to playing rookies vs vets vets free agents. Not sure if taking a big chunk of numbers and spreading them around tells the story.

It doesn't.  As someone mentioned earlier, we HAD to start Andy Dalton, AJ Green, Kevin Zeitler, possibly lump Bodine in there, Tyler Boyd, and others I'm probably forgetting due to the fact there really wasn't anyone else to play at their positions.


I guess the fair way to say this is it seems he never starts many rookies on defense.  We still trot out Hockaloogie, Peko, Geathers, etc, when maybe better and younger options are on the bench. This was kinda supported when Guenther announced he was fed up with piss poor play by the vets, and would going to youth if they didn't pull it together, only to have Mediocre Marv step on his junk. People tend to generalize things on forums.....most don't feel the need to pick nits.