10-29-2015, 10:50 AM
(10-29-2015, 10:01 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: Your opinion. I thought (and so did PFF) Hunt looked good in the preseason, and that was coming off a back injury.
Activating Sims and Thompson (so who else gets deactivated?) would only fill the void of Gilberry's rotational play at DT. It would do NOTHING to help MJ on the right side, nor would it help fill Carlos's snaps?
You said Gilberry and Clarke for 70 snaps at LDE, with Gilberry getting most of them. You weakened the rotation at RDE, the work Gilberry does in some passing downs at DT, and you are playing Gilberry in a position he is unfamiliar with (LDE).
Hunt and Clarke would be at LDE. Gilberry would keep doing what he has been doing so he doesn't disappear by year's end, like last year. The Bengals are aiming for week 19. The finish line is not the end of the regular season. They need to be at full strength for the playoffs. Wearing out Gilberry and MJ is not a good way to accomplish this feat.
Yes and there is why you (and PFF) are wrong. He wasn't good. He didn't DO anything. His plays largely came unblocked or against the TE of the other team. Teams blatantly disregarded him.
No one else gets deactivated.
One of them is always activated anyways.
So just play both of them so Gilberry doesn't have to play DT as often.
Yes, weaken on DE a bit to prevent the other from being a complete liability.
This all sounds so familiar because you go above and beyond to defend Hunt often it seems
http://bengalsboard.net/Thread-Chris-Carter-Over-Margus-Hunt?highlight=Margus+Hunt
Here's another time we had this discussion where you completely went above and beyond to turn his awful plays into not bad ones.
http://bengalsboard.net/Thread-Indy-game-thoughts?pid=55733#pid55733
