11-05-2018, 11:33 AM
(11-05-2018, 11:25 AM)ochocincos Wrote: I thought the same. I think it really might come down to scheme and maybe lack of fit. The Bengals really need someone who is more sideline-to-sideline to be successful on this team. At least with Hawk, Brown, and Minter they haven't had that. Those guys were/are more downhill defenders rather than sideline-to-sideline. And those downhill guys can work well in a scheme that emphasizes attacking the LOS more than covering in space, but that doesn't seem to be the scheme the Bengals run (at least based on results lol).
To take it a step further, look how many LB's we've drafted that washed out.
Lots of teams draft a LB and start him year 1 and get production. Burfict and Odell Thurman are the only guys I recall us being able to say that about under Lewis.
