PFF ranks Bengals receiving corps #11

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(05-20-2020, 10:22 PM)bfine32 Wrote: These ratings are usually based on potential. Just look at the team ranked just above the Bengals. 

Problem is maybe they don't believe in that potential anymore? 

It's been 3 years and Mixon has still never broken 300 yards receiving in a year, and Gio went from a 500 yard catcher, to a 400 yard catcher, to a 300 yard catcher, to now a 200 yard catcher. He's 29 now and he went from 9 yards per catch his first 5 seasons to 7 yards per catch the last two. He can still be a good receiving option out of the backfield, but his peak is obviously over.

Between Mixon and Gio combined, the longest reception they have had over the last two years is 35 yards. That's out of 143 catches. It's not a small sample size. The NFL is very much a "what have you done lately" league.

(05-20-2020, 11:17 PM)sandwedge Wrote: Why don't you expect the play calling to be better?

Because Zac Taylor was a terrible OC in College and now he's been a terrible OC in the NFL. He has never run a successful offense before. Or even a mediocre one.

Sometimes you have to just accept a guy's ceiling is as a QB Coach.... and even then a different QB Coach/OC other than him managed to make Ryan Tannehill have a breakout Pro Bowl/Comeback Player/Passing Rating Leader season. (You might want to point at Jared Goff as a Taylor success, but Goff was a Pro Bowler in 2017, and Taylor only became the QB Coach for him in 2018.)