12-21-2020, 03:13 PM
(12-21-2020, 02:01 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: They should have moved on from the AJ, Dalton, Dunlap, Geno team and started over.
Teams that are "starting over" don't create huge new holes to fill.
Coming into the 2019 season Geno Atkins was coming off a ten sack season and his 5th straight Pro Bowl. How does a re-building team replace a guy like that? From 2014 through 2018 Dunlap was 4th in the league in QB hits and 11th in sacks. Again, how does a re-building team replace that type of production. Before Green got injured in 2018 he was 8th in the league in receiving yards and 4th in td receptions through the first 8 games. He was on pace for 1374 yards and 12 tds. Again, this is not the type of talent to throw away when trying to build a winner.
Look at how the Forty-niners went from 4 wins in '18 to 12 in '19. They did not trade or cut older productive players like Richard Sherman, Joe Staley, or Michael Person. Instead they kept them to re-build around.
Too many fans think is is simple to just replace all of these productive vets with cheap free agents or middle round draft picks. That just is not true. The 2019 Bengls had holes all over their roster and it would not have been wise to just create a few more before they even started re-building.
