Why exactly do we need John Ross to be good?

[kevin]

(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.

Because you need to hit home runs with your #1 draft picks.   We might as well say why do we need Price to be good, why do we need our # 1 picks in 2019, 2020, 2021 to be good.    Now I'm not one of the one's bitching about Ross last Sunday and I've posted on here that I consider him still a rookie due to injured his first year. He has to get his rookie mistakes out, just as Lapham made rookie mistakes, just as just about every player makes rookie mistakes. I don't pin that entire loss on Ross.  I also think Green and Boyd give us one of the better WR combos in NFL.  I end where I began.  Ross was a #1 pick and you want #1 picks to be good.  Otherwise let's just trade all our draft picks in the future for veterans as Head Coach George Allen use to to with Rams and Redskins in 1960's and 1970's.  

So at some point, you want #1 draft picks to be good.  Every team is going to swing and miss on these, but you can't strike out all the time on #1 picks or you end up with the 1990's Bungles.  So at some point, you want #1 picks to become team leader veterans.  The problem is I still consider Ross a rookie and I strongly advise others to do the same. You can't count last year because he was too injured to play. Therefore he is just now getting his rookie mistakes out of him on the field. All rookies make mistakes, veterans say the difference between college and NFL is huge.  Fans who watch High School and College probably think it is all the same. It is not.  90 % of college players will never play in the NFL and only a few are good enough to adjust and stay in the NFL.  Ross to me is still a rookie, but it would help if in years to come he is a team leading veteran.