05-08-2017, 08:47 AM
(05-06-2017, 09:20 PM)Bengalsrob Wrote: It's a shame we have to ask this question but we do. Think about it, if we were most ANY other team would we have to ask? We shouldn't have to ask here either, but the question makes all the sense in the world, unfortunately.
Actually the question does not make thsat much sense. Marvin pretty much plays young players as muchg as the toher good teams in the league.
Here is an interesting number. According to profootballreference over the last ten years there have been 227 different rookies who started at least 14 games. Since there are 32 teams that is an average of 7.1 per team. Over the last ten years the Bengals have 7 different rookies who have started at least 14 games.
When we expand it beyond just rookie seasons it does not change very much. Looking at the first three seasons of every player's career over the last 10 years there were 785 who had at least one season with at least 14 starts in his first three years. That is an average of 24.5 per team, and the Bengals have had 24.
233 players had two seasons with at least 14 starts in their first 3 years. That is an average of 7.6 per team and the Bengals have had 7.
Only 80 players started at least 14 games in each of their first three seasons. That is an average of 2.5 per team and the Bengals have had 3.
So Marvin plays the young guys just as miuch as the average NFL coach.
(05-07-2017, 05:07 AM)Joelist Wrote: Also our usual nonsense of our first and second rounders riding the pine because of some mythological notion about the need to practice well is not going to fly. you draft in these rounds for starters not backups.
This is another message board myth. Here care the number of players (out of 64) taken in the first two rounds that started more than half the games as rookies.
2016......33
2015......34
2014......28
2013......30
So only about half of first and second round picks start even half of the games as rookies. And generally the worse a team is the more likely they are to play rookies. The Bengals have been a playoff team for several years, so they have not needed as many rookies to play immediately.
