05-27-2021, 09:51 AM
(05-26-2021, 11:18 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: That's what happens when you play a playoff team who is one of if not the best rushing team in the league and they have the ball for 2/3 of the game while your team converts 1/9 3rd downs and your QB only completes 6 passes for 48 yards and has 2 INTs. And you have a whole slew of back end of the roster guys like Margus Hunt, Xavier Williams, Amani Bledsoe, Christian Covington, Khalid Kareem, and Khalil Mckenzie taking a large portion of your DL snaps.
Completely get your point with that defensive personnel you can’t expect much and injuries hurt them. My only concern is there were games where outside of Wayne’s the defense was healthy and they played bad. Week 2 versus Cleveland they gave up 35 points and gave up 215 rushing yards. Week 4 versus Jacksonville the worst team in the league they gave up 25 points and Gardner Minshew threw for 351 yards and 2 tds. In those games they had Dunlap, Lawson, Hubbard, Reader, all there LB’s were healthy , Bell , Bates , WJ3 and Alexander. Week 1 they only gave up 16 points to the Chargers with Tyrod Taylor at QB not Herbert. Week 3 vs. Philly they did enough to give the team a chance to win. I left off week 5 vs. the Ravens because the offense was so horrific and only scored 3 points and they were down 2 cb’s. I stopped at week 6 versus Indy because that’s when Reader went down and the injuries started to pile up.
