Big play Chase?

[SunsetBengal]

(01-12-2024, 12:33 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Right

It's just like "some people" see a CB get burned on a play and it's oh he's trash from then on. 

There's just been a bucket load of issues this and even parts of last season that's just threw a monkey in the wrench. But still he's done quite well. I'm not worried about JB or JC going forward. Just hoping we get the Oline fixed a little.

A lot of that will come on it's own, but it's going to take a bit of a philosophical adjustment in order to allow that to happen.  As Synric pointed out, a lot of what the Bengals want to accomplish by taking advantage of the cover 2, is predicated on being able to move the ball on the ground when those Safeties are playing back.  Until Zac gets the mindset that 'the Bengals are going to run the ball when they want/need to' defenses will still be dictating to our offense what they will be able to do.  

Some of the improvement in rushing can be achieved by better execution of orchestrated blocking on plays called, but the offense is still somewhat limited in what types of plays they can call by the skill sets and physical traits of the men playing OL.  For example, right now the Bengals can't really do a lot of wide zone attacking, due to a lack of lateral athleticism in the OL, thus leaving them only able to get better at executing inside power and short traps.

However it happens, it must happen that the Bengals move the ball better on the ground. Otherwise we're going to continue to see Burrow getting knocked around from having to hold the ball so long while the weapons are trying to shake double coverage and the DL is gunning full speed at him.