Can someone explain to me...

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(11-17-2015, 12:18 PM)Stonyhands Wrote: I did not pin this on the defense.  I just said the play calling and substitutions were terrible on both sides.  Had we been facing a real NFL offense things would have been ugly.  The talent on the defensive side was able to overcome Paulie's joke of a scheme.  But had Paulie called a solid game we would have pressured the QB more and possibly into making mistakes.  Instead he did all sorts of stunts with our d-line.  Dunlap is a straight up edge rusher and he had him all over the place.  Atkins not in on quite a few passing downs.  Just doesn't make sense.  

I'll give you that!  The Bengals showed the LB pressure in the A gaps and then switched out all the time.  I think it got to a point where the QB knew they weren't coming and trusted his DL to pick up the Bengal 3 or 4 pass rushers. 

Look, I'm all for getting pressure with 4 DL's if possible but in a game like that you need to blitz to try and force some mistakes.