re: Bengals should’ve picked Penei Sewell over Chase

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Threepalmetto

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Whos alter is this?

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More evidence that Penei Sewell is an elite pass blocker

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Actually that's evidence that he has games with elite passing. Nobody has argued otherwise.

To have that high of a # of games with that low pressure rate and a pressure rate as mediocre-bad that he does overall means that he does really bad in lots of other games, comparatively.

Which you would understand if you understood basic math.

Do you think pressures allowed (subjective) or sacks allowed (objective) is more important when measuring pass blocking skill?

Beyond that, do you really believe any offensive tackle would be selected to back to back First Team All-Pro lists by every notable publication in the 2020s if he weren’t an elite or damn near elite pass blocker?

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Do you think pressures allowed (subjective) or sacks allowed (objective) is more important when measuring pass blocking skill?

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Pressure, clearly. Which gives you a larger sample size from which to judge? Which is a more consistent measure of disruption of offensive play? Which has been proven through analytics to be more important? Pressure is the answer to all three

There's too much variance in luck involved in sacks that has nothing to do specifically with the blocking and since sacks are more rare your sample size is less significant and impactful in the overall analysis.

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Beyond that, do you really believe any offensive tackle would be selected to back to back First Team All-Pro lists by every notable publication in the 2020s if he weren’t an elite or damn near elite pass blocker?

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Uh, yeah. Especially if they're the best run blocker in the NFL at tackle. Also, it helps if he's on a team with a lot of wins because they get more exposure and that leads to more the votes and those sorts of things. That's why you never heard about Trent Williams being the best tackle in football until he went to San Francisco and then it became accepted. Dogma because they were good and got more exposure instead of being bad like the Redskins were

yes, because Joe Thomas played with a QB of Brady or Burrow's caliber

QBs need a good offensive line to win.

Here is the offensive line PFF rankings of the last 18 Super Bowl teams. One is glaringly different from the others:

2025: Eagles (#3) Chiefs (#10)

2024: Chiefs (#4) 49ers (#9)

2023: Chiefs (#3) Eagles (#1)

2022: Rams (#7) Bengals (#20)

2021: Bucs (#5) Chiefs (#11)

2020: Chiefs (#16) 49ers (#14)

2019: Patriots (#4) Rams (#6)

2018: Eagles (#1) Patriots (#3)

2017: Falcons (#6) Patriots (#10)

The Bengals are the only team in the last 9 years to have a bottom half offensive line and make the Super Bowl.

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yes, because Joe Thomas played with a QB of Brady or Burrow's caliber

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Lighten up Francis I was just using GCA or whatever alter he’s using now favorite tactic

As discussed here contrary to popular belief the Bengals have in fact tried to upgrade the OL, they even drafted OL 1R the 2 drafts before they took Burrow they’ve signed FA, they just either missed or really suck at evaluating or there’s something wrong with their scheme/development

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Sewell is a right tackle, which greatly diminishes his value, although he is very good.

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Bro I switch my RT to LT on madden all the time

- the OP

Yeah the value for players is QB then OT, then CB/Edge, then the rest of the OL, and so on from there.

If you have the chance to get an elite Tackle or an elite WR, you always go elite tackle. It’s not even a debate really. What makes it even more obvious is how overpaid WRs are now compared to Tackles.

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Burrow isn't going to last much longer at this rate. Sewell could've helped a lot

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One good OL isn't solving their problems. They never several new OL. Either way, their defense is horrid, so it doesn't matter much. The offense would have had to score 6+ TD's to win last Sunday.