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Here's a look at the Bengals offense as compared to last year (all stats taken from https://www.espn.com/nfl/stats/team/_/season/2020/seasontype/2/table/passing/sort/totalPointsPerGame/dir/desc ):
Total Yards Per Game
2019 - 323.1
2020 - 364.3
Pass Yards Per Game
2019 - 228.3
2020 - 253.5
Rush Yards Per Game
2019 - 94.8
2020 - 110.8
Points Per Game
2019 - 17.4
2020 - 24.8
I've wanted a new playcaller as much as anybody after last season, but you gotta admit, Taylor's doing a better job so far this season. Sure, it helps having Burrow and we're not exactly a top 15 offense (yet?), but there's been a definite improvement.
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I’m not so sure I’m against Taylor right now. I mean, in the first game Burrow missed like 3-4 easy deep throws for touchdowns, and Bullock missed an easy kick to send it to OT. Then we keep fighting against the Browns, but allow them to gash huge runs at the end, extremely poor tackling.
Eagles game maybe? I honestly think our record is more of players not making plays than coaching. We’ve been putting up points every game.
EDIT: Baltimore could be telling as well, but. I don’t think we stand a chance anyways. I think it’ll look ugly.
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(10-05-2020, 10:53 AM)thillan Wrote: I’m not so sure I’m against Taylor right now. I mean, in the first game Burrow missed like 3-4 easy deep throws for touchdowns, and Bullock missed an easy kick to send it to OT. Then we keep fighting against the Browns, but allow them to gash huge runs at the end, extremely poor tackling.
Eagles game maybe? I honestly think our record is more of players not making plays than coaching. We’ve been putting up points every game.
The thing I like is the improved scoring. This season, we've scored 23 or more points in 3 of our 4 games. Last season we scored 23 or more points in 3 of 16 games.
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Imagine how much better the team might be if instead of paying AJ Green $18 mill for 30 yard per game average, they paid one upper-tier OL like Conklin, Bulaga, or Wagner.
The Bengals have XSF for two more years after this who can man one of the OG spots, so they can right their wrong by going after a stud OL in FA and then drafting one in Rds 1-2, as this team can be good with good OL play.
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This team could easily be 4-0 or 3-1.taylor has been underwhelming most of the time, but he has definitely improved. I’m Not completely sold on him but I don’t think we should give up either. He’s actually not doing too bad this year.
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(10-05-2020, 10:10 AM)PhilHos Wrote: Here's a look at the Bengals offense as compared to last year (all stats taken from https://www.espn.com/nfl/stats/team/_/season/2020/seasontype/2/table/passing/sort/totalPointsPerGame/dir/desc ):
Total Yards Per Game
2019 - 323.1
2020 - 364.3
Pass Yards Per Game
2019 - 228.3
2020 - 253.5
Rush Yards Per Game
2019 - 94.8
2020 - 110.8
Points Per Game
2019 - 17.4
2020 - 24.8
I've wanted a new playcaller as much as anybody after last season, but you gotta admit, Taylor's doing a better job so far this season. Sure, it helps having Burrow and we're not exactly a top 15 offense (yet?), but there's been a definite improvement.
Imagine what the difference would be if you threw out week 1 from both seasons where Dalton had 400 yards and Burrow had a tough day. A bit understandable given his lack of preseason games among other COVID challenges.
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I’m more interested in where they rank amongst the rest of the league. Is offense up for everybody?
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(10-05-2020, 11:47 AM)Yojimbo Wrote: I’m more interested in where they rank amongst the rest of the league. Is offense up for everybody?
League Ranks - Offense (pro-football-reference.com):
Points For - 19th
Offensive Yards - 20th
Total Turnovers - 8th
Passing Attempts - 2nd
Passing Yards - 16th
Passing TDs - 18th
INTs - 7th
Rushing Attempts - 20th
Rushing Yards - 19th
Rushing TDs - 19th
League Ranks - Defense:
Points Allowed - 16th
Yards Allowed - 24th
Passing Attempts - 19th
Passing Yards Allowed - 16th
Passing TDs Allowed - 4th
INTs - 8th
Total Turnovers - 18th
Rushing Attempts - 28th
Rushing Yards Allowed - 28th
Rushing TDs Allowed - 20th
So still in the bottom half of the league in most categories.
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(10-05-2020, 11:57 AM)ochocincos Wrote: So still in the bottom half of the league in most categories.
Yesterday seemed balanced as far as the play calling so hopefully we will improve.
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(10-05-2020, 11:36 AM)Devils Advocate Wrote: This team could easily be 4-0 or 3-1.taylor has been underwhelming most of the time, but he has definitely improved. I’m Not completely sold on him but I don’t think we should give up either. He’s actually not doing too bad this year.
You are who you are in this league pretty much from week-to-week and a team is defined that way. That old adage that a team is never as good/bad as it plays is true as most games come down to less than a handful of plays and/or penalties. The inconsistencies of these officials really narrows the gap even more. 2-3 calls/ missed plays by inches and they easily could be 3-1.
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(10-05-2020, 12:20 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Yesterday seemed balanced as far as the play calling so hopefully we will improve.
It was.
36 passing attempts, 34 rushing attempts.
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(10-05-2020, 01:55 PM)ochocincos Wrote: It was.
36 passing attempts, 34 rushing attempts.
Nice blend.
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(10-05-2020, 10:10 AM)PhilHos Wrote: Here's a look at the Bengals offense as compared to last year (all stats taken from https://www.espn.com/nfl/stats/team/_/season/2020/seasontype/2/table/passing/sort/totalPointsPerGame/dir/desc ):
Total Yards Per Game
2019 - 323.1
2020 - 364.3
Pass Yards Per Game
2019 - 228.3
2020 - 253.5
Rush Yards Per Game
2019 - 94.8
2020 - 110.8
Points Per Game
2019 - 17.4
2020 - 24.8
I've wanted a new playcaller as much as anybody after last season, but you gotta admit, Taylor's doing a better job so far this season. Sure, it helps having Burrow and we're not exactly a top 15 offense (yet?), but there's been a definite improvement.
not quite. Today's games aren't going to shake this up
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So far the Bengals have only played bottom feeder teams. All had losing records last season and only the Browns have put up more than one win.
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(10-05-2020, 03:40 PM)BengalChris Wrote: So far the Bengals have only played bottom feeder teams. All had losing records last season and only the Browns have put up more than one win.
Eagles won their division last year at 9-7.
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(10-05-2020, 03:40 PM)BengalChris Wrote: So far the Bengals have only played bottom feeder teams. All had losing records last season and only the Browns have put up more than one win.
You can say they are bottom feeders, but we've faced some pretty good defenses.
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(10-05-2020, 03:40 PM)BengalChris Wrote: So far the Bengals have only played bottom feeder teams. All had losing records last season and only the Browns have put up more than one win.
Makes no difference. This is a week-to-week league. Now all of a sudden nobody wants to face a hot Carson Wentz.
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(10-05-2020, 10:10 AM)PhilHos Wrote: Here's a look at the Bengals offense as compared to last year (all stats taken from https://www.espn.com/nfl/stats/team/_/season/2020/seasontype/2/table/passing/sort/totalPointsPerGame/dir/desc ):
Total Yards Per Game
2019 - 323.1
2020 - 364.3
Pass Yards Per Game
2019 - 228.3
2020 - 253.5
Rush Yards Per Game
2019 - 94.8
2020 - 110.8
Points Per Game
2019 - 17.4
2020 - 24.8
I've wanted a new playcaller as much as anybody after last season, but you gotta admit, Taylor's doing a better job so far this season. Sure, it helps having Burrow and we're not exactly a top 15 offense (yet?), but there's been a definite improvement.
AJ Green is obviously the difference maker.
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(10-05-2020, 04:32 PM)Sled21 Wrote: You can say they are bottom feeders, but we've faced some pretty good defenses.
They faced one top 10 defense and it was only 9th
Eagles - 9th
Chargers - 19th
Jags - 23rd
Browns - 25th
They have not faced a top 5 defense yet so time to wait and see how they do when they do.
Our defense has faced
Browns - 13
Chargers - 8
Jags - 19
Eagles - 28
So our defense early sample has had tougher competition, but again just 4 games for each side of the ball
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