4 Reasons To Believe In The Bengals!

[BengalChris]

(06-29-2018, 10:12 AM)fredtoast Wrote: The claim that Marvin doesn't play rookies and younger players is way overblown.  When you look at the numbers over the time he has been here he plays rookies and young guys as much as the average NFL team.  People just don't look at the numbers for other NFL teams.  Last year just a little over half of the first round picks (18) were starters.

Weak teams ususally play more rookies and that is what happened last year with the Bengals.

Well, I can see why people see it that way. Last year Willie Jackson was clearly our best corner and Kirkpatrick was clearly behind Adam Jones and Dennard. But it took until Jones got injured for Willie to start.

Another player, I forget who it was, had to go to Marvin Lewis to tell him to start Geno Atkins.

Westerman played the best two games we had last year at RG but it didn't come until the final two games.

Pushing Ogbuehi and Fisher into the lineup when clearly neither could do the job doesn't count in Marvin's favor cause that was a disastrous mistake.