Bengals history of making lemonade out of lemons

[Shake n Blake]

(04-12-2019, 08:09 AM)sonofstat Wrote: Honestly of all of them I still say the Reggie Nelson trade was the prime example of lemonade out of lemons...

we had 6 years of fantastic production out of him but even above the numbers which were good he seemed to get the whole secondary lined up , and had that apparent knack for getting in Big Ben's head.

Great player for us and he's the reason why i was delighted to see us get Jessie Bates and see him develop because i was never a real fan of the Ilolka & William, two box safety / hitters approach at safety.

I agree that Reggie was great for us, but I didn't really see him as quite the lemon people painted him as, coming out of Jacksonville. He had a very promising rookie season with 5 INT's and 11 passes defensed.

So he showed potential. What he got benched over in season 3 (giving up a big play because he went for a strip) was something that was easily fixable.

Imo we got lucky that JDR gave up on a good player because he was pissed off. It was more that than us turning trash into a diamond.