Remember this game

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(08-27-2020, 09:12 AM)Jhowdy54 Wrote: That game came right after the devastating loss to the Denver Broncos in week 1. Antwan Odom had one great game as a Bengal and it was this game. By the way I'm still not over that Denver game lol. I felt like I was going to vomit after the Leon Hall deflection TD.

EVERY game Odom played in 2009, was a great game; he was on a different level that year, be it something new he found in his game, PEDs, scheme, who knows, but he would've 100% won DPOY and had a run at the sack record (inflated of course, because of that 1 game).

In 5 games (6th game against the Texans, IIRC. he played less than 10 snaps), he had:

- 19 tackles (career high was 31)
- 9 TFL (career high was 10)
- 12 QB hits (career high was 22)
- 8 sacks (led the league at that point and that tied for his career-high)
- VASTLY improved in the run game, as I remember his PFF grade was 2nd or 3rd highest for DEs, league-wide

That was when PFF was in its infancy and he was a darling; he put on 20 pounds or whatever in that offseason and he was moved inside a lot (Odom feasted on Darren Colledge and TJ Lang or Jason Spitz, whoever it was that moved to LG when Colledge had to move to LT because of Clifton's injury), which saw him do well in the run game for the first time in his career.

Then Owen Daniels comes in with the illegal (not called either) chop block, as he went low on Odom after he had been engaged with Duane Brown half a second earlier and in trying to avoid him, lands awkwardly and tears his ACL or whatever.

I was so infuriated, IIRC, it was the first Bengals game I turned off before its ending, in my life.

Anyways, Odom turned up in 2010 significantly lighter (back to his 2008 weight, if not even lighter still) and I remember the TC videos, seeing how thin his legs had become. After 4 games with us, he was done for good.

I sometimes think if he had been healthy for the whole year, would we have lost that Chargers game? Would we have even had to play the Jets and if so, how different would it have been with him at RDE?

Anyways, water under the bridge at this point.