With Trey out move to a 3-4

[KillerGoose]

(12-15-2022, 12:09 AM)casear2727 Wrote: We definitely run a 5-2 at times and have the past 2 years in non-goal line situations.

I have certainly been wrong before so I am open to correction but I can't recall a single play where the Bengals brought out five down linemen in a non-goalline situation. Maybe a short yardage play somewhere? You're the second person to claim this, so where there's smoke, there's fire and all that but nothing rings a bell. 

EDIT - A quick search finds this article from Football Outsiders where they talk defensive personnel groupings. They don't even mention 5-2 in their blurb. It's a rather rare grouping in the NFL. If Cincinnati does do it, it is incredibly rare. From FO again, they counted 150 snaps from 5-2 for the entire season in 2020, primarily from TB and WAS. 

There was 32,945 snaps that season. A 5-2 grouping was used 0.4% of the time.