12-07-2018, 04:07 PM
(12-07-2018, 12:09 PM)jj22 Wrote: The loss of Eifert is overrated. They don't even try to send CJ and Kroft (when healthy) down the seam to make the plays Eifert made his money on during the 2015 season.
They act like they can't build a gameplan around a TE without Eifert, and that's just not true. They never tried. CJ has good hands, as does Kroft. They can snag those seam passes like Eifert did. And we know they can catch the TD's he did too.
The issue is teams didn't fear them so they played Defense differently then they did when Eifert was in the lineup. That's what we "miss" with Eifert. Not the person, the open field from the change of defensive scheme.
But teams wouldn't fear them if they Bengals never tried and put out the tape that they can be used like that.
The Bengals always seem to struggle to use TE's like other teams use them (against us). With the exception of when we had a healthy Eifert. That's on coaches. Between CJ and Kroft they could have done what Eifert did if given the opportunity and play call.
Scoring Touchdowns is not overrated and why do the coaches know how to use Eifert when he is healthy
and they do not know how to use Kroft and Uzi when they are healthy? Also, if i was good i would MAKE
teams fear me, you don't just earn that by being a first round pick.
Eifert was just THAT good when he was healthy.
Saying this, we do need a new TE coach for damn sure. Hayes has never been good.
