09-23-2020, 11:15 AM
(09-23-2020, 10:52 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Bengal fans around here just are not watching other NFL games.
Bengals pass pro is middle of the pack, yet everyone here is claiming we are the worst in the league and could sign guys off the street better than our starters.
All fans love to play the victim card, but I think Bengal fans are the masters. Anything average becomes "worst ever in the history of the NFL".
Do we need to improve. ABSOLUTELY!
Are we going to improve by playing our backup? PROBABLY NOT.
You're looking at 'sack rate' or 'pressure rate' or some such? That's why statistics need to be understood in context, not in the abstract. We're dinking and dunking down the field because we know we can't protect Burrow. On offense we don't dictate anything. We just orchestrate it around the defense's strengths and our weaknesses. We can't execute our full offense for fear of Burrow getting creamed. And so, we end up middle of pack in terms of these stats that only make sense out of context (also two weeks of data is a very low N, by the way). Thus our bad OL is absolutely inhibiting us, whether that translates to sacks or pressures or zero running game or whatever.
And to be clear, i'm not griping about Fred getting another start - I understand his logic in that. I'm pissed that after an 0-2 start Taylor just writes off criticisms as 'overblown.' Not that I expect him to publicly throw his players under the bus, except that he turned right around and did that with the defense.
