Hi Geoff. Why has Auden Tate disappeared from the WR rotation? I mean, 6'5", 228 lbs, ridiculous catch radius. I would think that he would be a given in third down, or red zone situations. What gives? James Hudgens, Cincinnati, OH
JAMES: He's missed the last two games because of injury, but let's begin the discussion about targets. Look, I also love Tate as a great target that seems to catch them all … but who do you want targeted in the red zone? Chase, Tyler Boyd, Tee Higgins, Uzomah, Mixon? And you've got one ball.
Hi Geoff, Thanks for all your ongoing Bengals coverage! I'm curious, what is the Bengals record this year with Jackson Carman starting at RG and how has the run game comparatively fared in those games? Peter Neefus, Virginia Beach, VA
PETER: Thank you for continuing to read and write in. In Carman's five starts, the Bengals are 3-2 and average 86 rushing yards per game on 22 attempts for 3.9 per carry. In the other four games they are 2-2 while averaging 111 yards on 29 attempts on 3.9 per carry. He didn't start the Lions game, but he took a third of the snaps in a game the Bengals tied a season high with 36 carries for 142 yards, second only to the opener.
Browns... Ouch. With Tre Wayne's history, do the Bengals target Damon Arnett? LB Jaylon Smith and a Center? Burrow can not force balls to Chase!! I believe he targeted Boyd only twice the whole game! Why? Hopkins is a huge weakness right now Kiva Dior Sr. Cincinnati, OH
I'm all for Chase getting his targets but doesn't it feel like Boyd's been forgotten? We need some more sustained drives, not just looking for the deep shot. Burrow is forcing it to Chase, Is Taylor/Callahan not seeing this too? Brad Miller, Westerville, OH
KIVA, BRAD: I think the Boyd thing is a bit of an overreaction to last Sunday, when Chase had 13 targets and Boyd had two. I mean, just the week before in New York, Boyd had the most targets with eight and Burrow targeted him on his two biggest throws of the day. They came on their last scoring drive, both on two mega third downs and the last one for a touchdown that should have salted it away.
Forgotten?
Gone, maybe, for a game. But not forgotten. Coming into last Sunday's game, Chase had 60 targets and Boyd had 53, which sounds pretty reasonable to me. And head coach Zac Taylor and offensive coordinator Brian Callahan have both addressed the discrepancy against Cleveland and don't exactly see it like others.
One of the reasons Taylor was so peeved about the play-action sack on missed blitz pickup is because Boyd was open for a big play.
"We felt like we had some good opportunities outside that we took advantage of. I will say two of the sacks that we had were going to target TB down the field for some big plays down the field potentially, you know, and we just didn't have time to get them there," Taylor said Monday. "It certainly wasn't my intention to have him walk off the field with two targets and one catch, and there were some other plays that could have gone to him that again, like I'm saying, Joe got sacked on, but he's a big part of what we do and we need to continue to try to get him more involved where it fits."
On Tuesday, Callahan said Boyd is getting more attention than Chase on some snaps.
"Tyler Boyd has actually seen more double teams on third down than Ja'Marr has," Callahan said. "He's seen some cloud coverage, some quarters and stuff like that. Just kind of keeping it in front of them. At the end of the day we've gotten behind defenses. We missed a couple in that Browns game. It wasn't like they've totally bottled him up in that regard. We put the ball down field a few times and didn't come up with it. I would say it's nothing crazy defensively people are doing with Ja'Marr. They're just aware of him now. He's having a good year. They're trying to stay on top of him and not get beat deep. But I would say the coverage specialties haven't really shown up yet."
So, no, they don't think Burrow is forcing it.
As for the Hopkins question, he's still getting his feet under him in his first nine games back from his ACL injury, which happened just 10 months ago. I wouldn't call him a weakness. I'd call him courageous for what he's done coming back. I know his PFF grades are lousy, but I also know they use Pollack's grades and if he thought was a weakness, he'd get him out of there. Hopkins means so much to them when it comes to getting them lined up and you don't see that in anyone's grades but the internal ones.
They've got a lot of faith in rookie center Trey Hill. I think that's their future target there.
Damon Arnette? The ex-Raiders cornerback? A guy facing NFL suspension with 13 games under his belt? They've just claimed two veteran backups with a combined 115 NFL games (Tre Flowers and Vernon Hargreaves III) and they're most likely going to draft a cornerback quite high, maybe as high as the first round.
And for a defense that doesn't have a lot of linebackers, can't see them dropping big money on one, especially after committing nearly a quarter of a billion dollars on defense the past two offseasons and key offensive players like Burrow and Higgins coming up for deals sooner rather than later.
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