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(12-14-2020, 12:51 AM)SuperBowlBound! Wrote: Really?

Our 2018 #1 Pick was Billy Price a complete and total failure.

Our Offensive Line by the end of 2018 was

LT Cordy Glenn - Failure
LG - Clint Boling - Retiring
C - Billy Price - Failure Backup Tank Johnson (Terrible)
RG - Trey Hopkins, Christian Westerman, Alex Redmond (Terrible)
RT - Jake Fisher (2nd Rd Bust), Cedric Ogbuehi (1st Rd Bust), Bobby Hart (terrible)

I am sure Zak Taylor was thrilled to walk in to have that Offensive line to start with.

Cordy Glenn was a solid player, he just wasn't what he was in BUF.
Boling only retired after Taylor was hired on. It was July 2019, just before TC started.
Price was a downgrade from Bodine, but he wasn't as bad at C as he was at G.
I'll give you the right side of the line. Hopkins wasn't a good run blocker (still isn't), Redmond wasn't a good pass blocker (still isn't). Westerman was about the only semi-hope, but he was contemplating retirement during preseason. He ultimately did not make the final cuts.
No one wanted Fisher or Ogbuehi to play a down, and Hart is Hart.
Remember too that the OL you slam still had the Bengals at 6 wins in 2018 and helped give Mixon 4.9 YPC.
The Bengals also brought Andre Smith back in late July 2019, who people thought was going to either start at RG or RT.
And Jonah Williams was just drafted. People didn't know he was going to have surgery on the shoulder injury he played through all 2018 with Alabama.

After the draft, people expected the OL to be a combo of Glenn, Boling, Price, Williams, and Hart/Smith/Hopkins/Redmond/Westerman.
So no, the OL really wasn't as bad heading into 2019 as it is now.