Why Frye?

[Harry]

Yep he did start at RG until Hernandez was healthy enough to return. Adams did play one game at LG though.

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I pulled a starting lineup and it was wrong, but everything else was correct. Brown struggled and the right side was severely limited by injury. Sorry.

 

[HairZach]

Injuries took a major toll on our OL. Both Will Hernandez and Jonah Williams returned too soon. The ‘Big Johns’ along the OL need time to recover from serious injury. JW in particular lost his agility and power when he came back too soon. He was a big FA signing—he was the 11th overall pick by the Bengals in 2019 and was a major ‘get’ by Monti. WH and JW were part of our dominant run game—when both were healthy.

There are two players named Jonah Williams (the other is the DL Cards signed). PFF has the two confused and has us signing OL JW.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WillJo10.htm#all_transactions

Not sure where OL JW is—wonder if the Cards will invite him to camp to check out his knee?

You're right about JW coming back too soon, but he was always terrible. He was the worst lineman on that terrible Bengals OL that gave up 9 sacks in a playoff game. Theres a reason they didn't resign him.

He's a perfect example of how only bad OTs hit free agency, and they still get paid because of teams not having better options.

 

[GimmedaBall]

You're right about JW coming back too soon, but he was always terrible. He was the worst lineman on that terrible Bengals OL that gave up 9 sacks in a playoff game. Theres a reason they didn't resign him.

He's a perfect example of how only bad OTs hit free agency, and they still get paid because of teams not having better options.

MO brought JW in for his run-blocking ability. Together with a healthy WH, they were a pretty decent run-blocking tandem and helped spring JC for his 1,000 yards.

The OL prefers a pocket-passer and someone who is going to step up into the pocket---which is not anything that KM would or even could do. KM maks every OL who doesn't have eyes in the back of his head to see which way KM was tap dancing look bad.