Westerman Needs to Be our RG

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(08-11-2018, 07:33 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Has anyone checked out this CJ article?

https://www.cincyjungle.com/2018/8/11/17679338/4-things-to-know-from-bengals-final-day-of-training-camp

The reason that I put that in this thread is this section..



Now, reading things like "Westerman has been the best Guard not named Boling", and "for whatever reason, the coaches won't give him reps at RG", really gets my mind to imagining possibilities.


What if..  The team were considering pushing Boling out to LT, replacing him with Westerman, AND shifting Glenn over to the RT spot?

I know that seems rather far fetched, but hear me out.  Several on here had talked about how good Boling looked at LT, at the end of last season.  And, if the Bengals fail to pick up a worthy veteran for that RT spot, it certainly would be a way of getting competent players at each of the 5 starting positions.  Just imagine Cordy Glenn at RT?  That dude is like a freakin' bulldozer.  Hello rushing attack.

We talked about this a lot after the draft.  With Glenn next to someone like Redmond on the right side, you have 700 lbs of road graders on the right edge.  Boling, IMHO, earned that challenge with how he played the last two games of the season at LT and those were the only two games where the Bengals had a 100 yard rusher (Gio and Mixon) except for the Browns game.

It is a huge shift in overall responsibilities, and when they didn't explore it at OTAs, I knew it was moot.  They would have had to start out with this idea, not as a backup plan, but I sure liked the idea of Glenn and Boling outside, with the nastiness of Westerman, Price, and Redmond inside.  

We all knew last year wasn't a solution, and we saw the epic failure coming and the Bengals did nothing to address it...it was as though they HAD to see the failure of Og and Fish AGAIN before making changes.  Well, the only positive was the discovery that they had a couple capable guards in Westerman and Redmond.  They addressed the tackle vacancy, and drafted Price.  I only wish we could get them all on the field.