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Originally Posted by tredadda
Great points. Cincinnati has arguably the best QB in their history and are treating him like he was Andrew Luck. Jamar Chase is a great receiver, but he was the wrong pick long term. I get his short term value, but your QB is getting killed out there because another WR was more important than keeping your most important player upright and healthy.
A good GM like Veach watched what happened to Mahomes due to poor line play (all backups mind you) in SB 55. He spent the offseason focusing 100% on addressing that issue and has crushed it. He’s still doing what he has to in order to protect Mahomes. One team has elite WRs and is watching the SB from the house because their QB is injured again due to a weak offensive line. The other has lesser WRs yet is in their 4th SB in 5 years because their QB is healthy because he took very few hits.
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Yep. He killed it with the Humphrey and Smith picks in '21. The Bengals have been beyond bad in evaluating offensive linemen for a long long time. I wanted Humphrey and there were more than a few on the Bengals MB who were calling for taking a shot on Trey Smith. The Bengals were interested in Thuney but they historically just won't pay guards, so they probably low-balled him with an offer.
I'm not upset with the Chase pick because, as good as he is, Sewell is only 1 guy out of 5 and they'd still have 4 spots they'd need to hit on, so at least they got an elite talent for the QB. Plus they would have probably put him at LT due to his draft position and they weren't ready to
move Williams at that point, which is a problem of it's own. They're just really bad at FA/draft/positioning offensive linemen.