05-01-2017, 10:55 AM
(05-01-2017, 10:47 AM)bengals67 Wrote: Alexander has always had his defenders. My expertise at football is not great. But watching the Bengals for a long time, we never seem to have as good an offensive line as the Steelers or the Pats.
It seems our pass blocking is better than run blocking which may be related to Andy's quick release. It is also a bad circumstance since Marvin has always wanted us to be a run first team.
We have been very poor on short yardage running for as long as I can remember.
Bodine went from being one of the worst center in the league to maybe 25th or so but still way below average.
From my unlearned perspective, he is particularly bad against 3-4 defenses, which just happens to be the system run by Steelers and Ravens. His better games seem to be against teams who run a 4-3 system like our system.
I hope he improves. I would love for Bodine to become an above average NFL center. I will be pleasantly surprised.
The guy I am referencing never played for Paul Alexander, so while the guy may defend Alexander he has no direct ties to him other than watching him speak and what others in the league told him. As for Bodine I pointed it out in another thread, According to PFF (I know I know) he basically doubled his score from 2015-2016, if he can get a little more improvement he could have a solid season this year.
