Let's talk Tee Higgins for a minute.

[Benton]

(12-25-2020, 05:04 AM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: Completely true because you appear to forget how good he really was in 2005 when, for about three months, all of the NFL talking heads would lump Brady, Manning and Palmer together. That never happened again. It doesn't matter how "good" you think his stats were in 2006 . . . he was better before the knee injury and never looked the same again.

2005 Career high and led the league in completion percentage with 67.8 . . . 2006 . . . 62.3

2005 32 TDs led the league . . . 2006 4 less TDs on 11 more attempts but he did go from 19 sacks to 36 because he didn't look the same after the knee injury. The fire, the zip, the excitement . . . all gone.

That 93.9 rating is pretty good. It's the 2nd highest rating in his career as a Bengal . . . his highest rating as a Bengal was a 101.1 in 2005

2005 421 points . . . Defense 350 - 11-5
2006 373 points . . . Defense 331 - 8-8

2005 32 TDs led the league . . . 2006 4 less TDs on 11 more attempts but he did go from 19 sacks to 36 because he didn't look the same after the knee injury. The fire, the zip, the excitement . . . all of it . . . gone and you can't find any of that in a stat book.

Anyone still want to guess why I wanted to trade down, especially with this supporting cast?

Palmer, brady, warner and other qbs had good runs after knee injuries. 

Yeah, it would've been great to have a decent line in front of him. We haven't drafted well on the ol in several years. I don't get the logic is passing on one of the best qb prospects in years to draft line prospects that weren't that good. Honestly, it was a great time to draft a QB, a bad time to draft a lineman.

If I'm remembering right, the first tackle off the board on 2020 has been around the worst starting tackles in 2020.

I don't disagree with your logic, but the timing was great for a qb, horrible for building a line