WTF Rodney Anderson

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(04-29-2019, 09:41 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: 1992 Klingler - Bust
1993 Copeland - Meh at best
1994 Wilkinson - Good player, not dominant, bad fit
1995 Carter - Injured and done
He was taken #10 overall after years of trying to replace Munoz with Kevin Sargent
He took most of the season to get onto the field and then failed at LT.
The following summer, he's now the RT(strong side) and RG/RT Rod Jones is the starting LT. Halfway through the season, Jones was replaced for a year and a half by Kevin Sargent, the guy that they drafted Willie to replace.

Is it common for a team to spend a #10 pick on the RT and then move a 7th rounder from the same draft out of position to play LT? Welcome to 90s Bengals football. After consecutive years of bad #1 picks, they were desperate to not miss again so they moved Willie Anderson to RT. I didn't have too much of a problem with it but it took until they got Levi Jones in 2001 to finally put an NFL LT on the roster. When Levi was hurt, they asked Willie to play LT and he said that they need to pay him more. This was after they made him the highest paid RT for years.

Dude...

Seriously, you've been a GREAT poster thus far, but the last 2 posts in this thread by you are chock full of conjecture and subjectivity:

Klingler: True, though not entirely his fault.
Copeland: Literally a top 3 run defending DE, who wasn't that bad a pass rusher. Basically Geathers predecessor, but a better player.
Wilkinson: Agreed. Much better than our fans give him credit for.

Now, to the Willie stuff:

- He played all 16 games at LT, starting 10 of them.
- He gave up something like 3 sacks in 5 years or whatever, not to mention he was arguably the best run-blocking RT in the game, while he played.
- We did not sign him, he jumped ship because we asked him to take a pay cut. He goes to Bmore, for SIGNIFICANTLY less money and still balls out.

I get he's been a bit of a moody ahole (whether warranted or not) since he's retired, but he was the best RT in the game from 1997-2006 (at least, if not until he retired) and helped bolster a lot of our teams, whether they were terrible or great.

Don't let your bias show.