09-26-2018, 10:15 PM
(09-26-2018, 03:52 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: I mean seriously, why does he need to be good for this offense and team in general to be good?
This offense has plenty of weapons without him. AJ Green, Tyler Boyd, Tyler Eiffert (who is healthy and is starting to play really well), Joe Mixon, Gio.
Any team would salivate to have those options. Any production from John Ross is icing on the cake as far as im concerned. Can you even name any other teams third option at wide receiver or does any team get production out of their third receiver like we expect Ross to get?
The top 5 offenses in the league are:
Tampa Bay
Pittsburgh
LA Rams
New Orleans
LA Chargers
Name the third option at wide receiver for those teams. Ill wait...
You want to know who Tampa Bay's third option at receiver is? A guy named Adam Humphries. He has 6 catches for 57 yards this year.
You can't tell me that our offensive skill players: AJ Green, Tyler Boyd, Tyler Eiffert, and Joe Mixon are that much worse (or worse at all) than Tampa Bays: Mike Evans, Deshean Jackson, OJ Howard, Peyton Barber.
My point is is that this team isn't going to be a good team based on John Ross' production. They don't need him to be good. They need other parts of their team to be good (linebackers, offensive line, defense in general) to be a good team overall.
We all need to stop bitching about Ross because at the end of the day it doesn't matter. Let's start bitching about some parts of the team that are actually going to make a difference between the Bengals winning and losing.
The 3rd options on those other teams weren't the 9th overall pick either. It's not so much that we need him to be good, it's more why did we think we needed him when we picked him. You either love the pick or hate it, right now he's just not giving us much promise. As far as the team needing him to be good to be good is total BS. Like you said we have plenty of weapons, I'm so tierd of this team having to be loaded and everything to go perfect for us to be good. At some point if Marvin and Dalton for that matter can't get it done with the talent they have around them then it's time to move on. But we all know how that will go.
