Bengals Place Antwan Odom On Injured Reserve For The Second Time In Consecutive Seasons
by Josh Kirkendall on Dec 2, 2010 2:07 PM EST
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PrintAntwan Odom.
What can you say? He's the team's biggest free agent bust to date, that's what you can say. And it might not be entirely his fault. After signing a five-year deal worth $29.5 million, Odom has been a typical example of how the Bengals tend to spend money in the wrong places because someone has one good season. Odom, while playing through an injury, recorded three quarterback sacks his first season with Cincinnati; though we kind have disregarded it because the injury slowed him off the line of scrimmage. And well, injury happens. Right?
Odom exploded in 2009, thanks to a five-sack performance against the Green Bay Packers. He would record another three sacks in the other five games he played. However, a torn Achilles in mid-October knocked him out for the season.
Feeling better coming into training camp this year, Odom got a virus that made him lose weight and kept his work limited. Furthermore, at some point he tested positive for a "banned element contained in a prescribed medication." The NFL banned him four games. It didn't matter anyway because Odom was expected to miss time with an injured knee with a recovery time of at least "a couple of week".
When Odom returned, it was learned that he had surgery on his wrist and because of that wrist, Odom had missed the only game he was eligible for last week against the New York Jets.
And now Odom is out for the year, placed on Injured Reserve on Thursday. He's the fourth defensive linemen to be placed on IR this year, following Jonathan Fanene, Tank Johnson and Frostee Rucker. We now have a possible starting lineup on the defensive line and in the secondary with players on Injured Reserve.
By the end of the season, Odom will have played in 22 of a possible 48 regular season games (45.8%) since signing with the Bengals in 2008, finishing the final two seasons on Injured Reserve.
The Bengals signed Victor Adeyanju, who was originally signed on November 18 in response to Jonathan Fanene going on IR. He was released on November 24 to make room for safety Jeromy Miles. We expect a report that he'll be released next week.
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Time to bring in some free agents on the O-Line and the D-Line and the first 4 rounds of the draft should be nothing but o-line and d-line.
Maybe not the first round :)
"In Zim We Trust"-TennBengalfan
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by TennBengalfan on Dec 2, 2010 2:13 PM EST up reply actions
Cheer for the Punkthers then. They need to win at least two more games (plus one more for any additional ones we win) for us to have a shot.
I would love for them to win this week, next week, or in week 17. Or even all three. But I only think they have half a shot this week. They likely have maybe a tenth of a shot the other two.
Another broken Bengal free agent
Is his contract up yet? This guy has been nothing but a waste of money.
What can you say? He’s the team’s biggest free agent bust to date, that’s what you can say
I have to disagree on this one, Antonio Bryant takes first place trophy for me
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I guess. I was actually applying that to a player that played ONE game. Lol.
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by Josh Kirkendall on Dec 2, 2010 2:52 PM EST up reply actions
So.......
Can we please fire the training staff??
Pathetic is right
I could not believe they were calling him a pass rusher supreme last year after the Packer game, my god Julius Peppers would have 10 sacks that day. He is absolutely the opposite of a pass rusher supreme.
by James Schmid the great on Dec 2, 2010 2:34 PM EST reply actions
He's a pure power rusher
with basically no moves or even exceptional athletic ability. He’s never had more than 8 sacks in a season…
In a 4-3 front you HAVE to get pressure from your ends!!!
He’s never had more than 8 sacks in a season…
When has a Bengal ever had more than 8 sacks in a season?
Tell you what.. here’s a list of every Bengal to record more than 6 sacks in a single season in the past 20 years:
2009: Antwan Odom
2006: Robert Geathers & Justin Smith
2004: Justin Smith
2001: Reinard Wilson & Justin Smith
1997: Gerald Dixon
1995: John Copeland & Dan Wilkinson
1994: Alfred Williams
1992: Alfred Williams & Danny Stubbs
1990: James Francis
6 in this decade, 7 in the 90s, total of 13 times in 20 seasons.
Anyone want to look at that again? In the past decade, the Bengals got even less 7+ sack years than they did in the horrible 90s.
I’m not a big fan of Odom, but the guy got more sacks in one game than any Bengals player did in the entire 1991, 2000, 2007, or 2008 seasons. Even if you threw out those 5 and left him with 3 for the year, that would still match the best output by any Bengal in the previous two seasons. Hard to call that a bust.
Contingency plan
The Bengals never have one. If one of their “big name players” goes down they have no one behind them. With the uncertainty of Odom’s injury, the knowledge of Geathers’ ineffectiveness and Rucker’s injury woes, why wouldn’t they try and go after a guy like Julius Peppers this offseason? I understand that they drafted Dunlap and Michael Johnson, but having multiple dominant pass-rushers is a good thing—ask the 2007-2008 NY Giants. AT LEAST they could have had Dunlap play more early this season, instead of being inactive. They didn’t make a run at Peppers and gambled on Fanene, Rucker, Odom and Geathers and not ONE of them have done ANYTHING this year.
Odom and Geathers should be gone in 2011
put the $$ towards extending JJ or going after a good FA OG (ie Mankins, Gallery). Its amazing that MB has a reputation for being so frugal when he pisses away so much $$$ (Odom, A Bryant, A. Smith, Carson). Not getting ROI on any of those guys. Not even close.
+1 No kidding.
What kills me is his lack of protecting his investments. The Bengals training staff is sub par. We have one good offensive lineman to protect a now deteriorating QB who has too big of a contract. You got a decent RB in Benson but no fullback. …I could go on and on. Soooooooo sick of MB.
I cant believe
of how big a bust this guy has been for us. I remember being excited we actually got some talent on the D-line when we signed Antwan now look. Complete waste of money.
He managed to milk the Bengals for more money than Antonio Bryant with not much more in production.
Buh Bye Antwan. Take a pay cut or play for veterans minimum somewhere else.
Odom not a bust
Yeah it sucks he’s been injured so much, but you can’t call a guy that got the Bengals equivalent of 4 seasons worth of sacks in 8 games a bust.
still..
since then he’s not been able to get on the field and when he has been on the field he hasnt done anything worth all the money he is getting. Even in his first season with the Bengals he was injury riddled.
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