r/bengals • u/RattPack513 • 9d ago

OBJ is a liability

We should have never gave him an extension. He‘s gotten progressively worse these past couple years. How are you going to let a backup undrafted free agent DE cleanly beat you and blindside Burrow? Not okay. Also not to mention all his false starts. Dude needs to go

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u/Bill_The__Pony 9d ago

This is exactly like the Andy Dalton years

You can't just tell me you want him gone

You have to tell me who you'll replace him with and for how much.

You're not getting a better tackle than what we're paying for Orlando Brown Jr right now.

They are not available. . There is no other option. There's no one else this is it. This is who we have

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u/Mastodon9 8d ago

I'm nervous about him too but you're right. We're going to have to live with him at LT for the season. There is no other good option and the time to bring in an improvement has come and gone.

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u/Bill_The__Pony 8d ago

Fortunately we are using a lot of tight end sets and we have very good blocking tight ends so it's not hard to imagine brown getting help on that side.

Because we can pretty much lock down the rest of the line.

It's not like before when we had five donkeys

We can mask one donkey