Bengals Insiders Don’t Have Us Taking Pitts

[Benton]

(02-07-2021, 06:55 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: Well the Zac Taylor doesn’t use TE’s narrative is not even entirely accurate anyway. He was utilizing Uzomah the first couple games this season before CJ went down. He had 11 targets in less than 2 full games, and played 72% of the offensive snaps in week one.

And it’s not really setting Taylor up for failure. His offense was what, like 29th in the league? If Pitts is the BPA when we pick, and the FO feels he will give us a dimension we’re currently lacking, then it should be seen as helping him succeed.

I'll disagree with the failure part and then leave it alone as this doesn't need to devolve into a zac thread.

But, yeah, it does. We've got lots of significant holes. Pitts doesn't fit any of them. Moreover, we don't use tightends much in the passing game. I looked, bottom six or so, even when uzomah was healthy. Picking a receiving tight end as a blocker is like taking a dump truck fullback when you have solid halfbacks and just need a blocker or picking slot receiver who can't block when you need someone to help with the run game.

Pitts is a good te, he just wouldn't be kelce here, which is what people are going to expect.