Star of the 2022 season.....

[Essex Johnson]

(08-28-2022, 09:23 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: I'm optimistic about the defense, mainly because of continuity. Last year, the Bengals defense was a middle of the road group. Even in the playoffs, really. Their per play metrics were mostly the same, but they had a massive uptick in turnovers. I don't think that is sustainable, but I do think they can make an improvement there over last year and hopefully improve their per play metrics.

I would disagree on playoff assessment,  yards per game was about same but points they gave up less than 20 a game vs over 22 in regular seasonand turnovers as you pointed out were better with 2 per game vs 1.2 in season. 
I think what we forget how ineffective our offense was in playoffs vs regular season. We only scored 5 tds in our 3 playoff games and were below our avg yards per game in all 3 playoff games, if it was not for our defense we don't make super bowl.