(10-08-2019, 02:24 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: I just read today that the Bengals are shopping several of their players including TE Tyler Eifert. They are also desperate for receiving help since John Ross went on I.R. and A.J. Green is still weeks away from returning. Here's an idea..... how about we offer a trade, where we give them Marqise Lee, for TE Tyler Eifert and a 5th round pick? The Bengals get a reliable receiver (who is under contract for a while) to pair with Tyler Boyd, until A.J. Green returns and we get TE help for this season, much needed cap relief and a 5th round pick to replace the one we wasted on Josh Dobbs. It's a win-win.

Seems like a wash trade wise. I don't see how the Bengals would take that deal to be honest with you. Eifert has been oft injured. Lee has been oft injured. I don't see them giving up a draft pick neither. In all actuality. You could make the argument that they may start utilizing Lee more in the offense with O'Shaughnessy done for the year. 

They're going to have to figure out a way to work the middle of the field. I have noticed it throughout this year with this offense. The tendency is that Chark and Conley work the sidelines deep or hit the short routes along the sidelines. And they typically bank on Westbrook hitting the short to mid range out routes. Him and Minshew seem to have that down damn near perfectly so far from what I have seen. 

It was mostly O'Shaughnessy primarily hitting the middle of the defense down the seam. If they can't get Oliver up to speed quickly and they know that they can't fully depend on Swaim and DeValve to do what O'Shaughnessy could do? It gives Lee and Cole an opportunity to do some dirty work over the middle. And quite honestly? They BOTH could use the work now with them clearly getting out worked by Chark, Conley & Westbrook. 

We'll see how it shakes out soon enough. Flip may have something up his sleeve. But I did like that one play and formation where Lee came up clutch late in that Denver game on 3rd down. That's been the biggest complaint offensively this year. Their ineffectiveness to get it done on 3rd down. I know a lot of it is probably self inflicted with the 3rd and a country mile situations due to the consistent inconsistencies along the offensive line. But, there's a chance there for Lee and Cole to be that 3rd down guy.

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