Is Eli Apple The Starting CB?

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(04-08-2022, 12:44 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: Not a super small margin IMO. Cincinnati averaged 20.5 points allowed. The Rams averaged 18.75 (9% difference) and San Francisco averaged 15.6 (31% difference). I do hope they can keep the turnovers up, that was such a huge deal in their run. On a play-by-play basis, they were more or less the same as they were in the regular season but that kind of performance is fine if you take advantage of your turnover opportunities. Ideally, a small improvement play-by-play and a small increase in turnovers would be fantastic. 

And yes, hopefully the offense is potent enough to force deficits and passing situations early and often. That would help Lou get into his pressure packages.  

The San Fran game had some pretty pathetic elements involved and a few missed kicks due to it, and less that two points difference (even though that is 9%) over three games (for the Bengals) doesn't seem that significant.

Not trying to throw salt on everyone's wound, but had Burrow had another second of protection and he takes the shot with Chase, the difference is gone.  The defense was that close to what the Rams did in the playoffs.