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IF the Bengals got rid of Lafell...you have Ross at 5 foot 10 and Boyd who is 6 foot 1, 197 lbs. We need that 2nd big WR.
Core has a lot of potential...but he also made some mistakes so he needs seasoning. Malone will be in the same boat.
WR's notoriously get injured. Look over the last 2 years how many games we've had WR's miss. Now...IF one gets injured...our season isn't ruined.
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Plus, remember, we don't know how well Greens hamstring healed after being to the point he was at risk of it separating from the bone.
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We went from one of the very best 3 WR positions in the NFL with AJ, Jones and Sanu to very average/bad in one season - especially once AJ was done.
Now we have LaFell back in the fold plus the recent influx of young guns in Boyd, Ross and Malone the last thing i think we need to do is flush that down the drain again.
We run plenty of 3 WR sets and having some genuine competition at WR will make us better - you look at the roster we ended with at WR last year and some of those guys should not be close to getting on a 53 man roster
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As always there is no such thing as a content Bengals fan. We had been praying for YEARS that the team would finally smarten up and move on from Brandon Tate. Erickson comes in as a rookie returner and has a monsterous year. I don't recall a single member of this board complaining about Erickson at all during this past season. The NFL is all about production. Sure, the Bengals may hold Core in high regards, but Erickson earned his way into the starting lineup and produced at a very high level. If we cut Erickson there is a 0% chance he clears waivers and gets signed to the PS, whereas with Core there is at least the possibility that he makes the PS and can be called back if needed.
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(05-01-2017, 08:07 PM)RagnarLothbrok Wrote: As always there is no such thing as a content Bengals fan. We had been praying for YEARS that the team would finally smarten up and move on from Brandon Tate. Erickson comes in as a rookie returner and has a monsterous year. I don't recall a single member of this board complaining about Erickson at all during this past season. The NFL is all about production. Sure, the Bengals may hold Core in high regards, but Erickson earned his way into the starting lineup and produced at a very high level. If we cut Erickson there is a 0% chance he clears waivers and gets signed to the PS, whereas with Core there is at least the possibility that he makes the PS and can be called back if needed.
I do. I had debates with several folks on here that were blasting Erickson early in the season. Mostly Tate defenders that quietly went away as that return average started to soar.
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