Optimism for Zach Carter

[*ochocincos*]

(08-23-2023, 02:20 PM)ochocincos Wrote: I thought Bengals were most often running in 4-2-5?
I know occasionally they run 5 DL, but I didn't think it was most of the time?
Do you have a percentage of snaps that 5 DL are in?

So it looks like the Bengals played about 1036 defensive snaps in the regular season.
If you multiply that by 4 (4-man front), that's 4144.

Every single DL combined number of snaps was 4294.
So 150 total snaps out of 1036 possible snaps.

That shows that the Bengals are not frequently out there running 5 DL.
Only about 13-14% of all the snaps are running 5 DL.

Is it worth keeping an extra DL just for 13-14% of the instances where 5 DL are used?
Or perhaps, maybe, if 5 DL are needed/wanted in the very rare occasion, the Bengals could just have the DL play a handful more?