Re: 2021 NFL Season Thread
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2023 8:51 pm
FWIW Sewell might be the best OL in the NFL now though the Bengals future is just fine as well so all good all around.tennbengal wrote: ↑Wed Aug 18, 2021 9:30 am actually not sarcastic. Had to listen that bullshit all off-season. It's lazy.
Sewell has issues and is NOT a lock to be good. His arms measured short for T - and you can see that rear its head in game 1 when another rookie (Rousseau) got into his chest with longer arms and discarded him and got to the QB. The Bengals have Jonah Williams at LT - top 11 pick from just 2019. Sewell would have had to switch to RT (having not played it since early in HS) and after taking a year off and learning how to manage speed rushers in the NFL. It is what Detroit is doing with him. It will probably work out - but there's going to be a learning curve for him there.
So, if the thesis is "lol bengals not protecting Burrow because they didn't take sewell" -- well, fuck off. You want to protect Burrow on the edges you get a vet into RT (which is what Riley Reiff is) and you expect your 3rd year top 11 pick at LT to be good (which he was last year). But some knee jerk they didn't take Sewell what a joke shit is just that, shit.