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(09-08-2015, 03:22 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: I am not sure how anyone can argue our top 3 WR's, our top 2 TE's and top WR's were injured a lot in 2014. In fact, they played 60 of a possible 119 games or only close to 50%. This is Green, Sanu, Jones, Eifert, Gresham, Hill and Bernard. It is generous for Hill as he barely saw the ball in 6 games, but I gave him credit for all 17.

In the playoffs, we had Sanu, Hill and Bernard only so we were missing 4 of these guys or over 50% of our offense weapons.

Why would anyone not see this as a major issue for any offense or any NFL QB to be missing the guys they worked with in some cases for years or at a minimum in OTA's and training camps thus were a huge part of their offensive scheme?

Again, this is not like a player or 2 missed a few games, we had massive injury issues with our offensive skill guys in 2014. No excuse, but cold hard facts.

I'm not arguing against the fact that the Bengals had a lot of injuries last season.  Losing Eifert and Jones is a big deal, no doubt.  I just don't think that having Green, Sanu, Gresham, Hill, and Bernard play most of the season puts you at a huge disadvantage.  That is more talent than what a good deal of teams have. 

As I've said, the playoff game is a different story, and no one should have expected them to win with Rex Burkhead as their #2 receiver, but for most of the year, they were not completely destroyed by injuries, contrary to popular belief.

The team had massive injuries with Jones and Eifert, a moderate injury to Green, and small nothings with Sanu, Gresham, Hill, and Bernard.  Good teams survive a few injuries, as the Bengals did.....but saying that this is the prime reason that Dalton struggled is silly, especially considering the healthy guys that he had in 2014 is more than he had in 2011 or 2012, when he performed better.