Learning from New England

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(01-30-2017, 05:29 PM)bengals67 Wrote: Cincy Jungle has a link to stripe hype article explaining what Bengals could learn from the game plan used by the Pats against the Steelers.

It is an excellent article.

The main point - you need to do short passes on first and second down to stay out of third and long against the Steelers zone defense and blitz packages.

How many of us on this board have been saying this for years.

Why does Marvin always run on first and often times second down, gain little if any yards with our awful run blocking against 3-4 defenses, and put Dalton in a third and long against the Steelers.

They also criticize the Bengals for getting a lead and then playing itsafe.

Again- how many people on this board and the old board have banged their heads for years making this same criticism of Marvin.

Bengals don't need to learn any of that. That's all journalistic jargon.

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(01-30-2017, 06:54 PM)OrlandoBengal Wrote: This is on the topic of "Learning from New England".  Did anyone see Chad Johnson on FOX the other day?  They asked him about the culture in New England, and if anything surprised him when he first got there.

He said that his first day there they broke down film from the playoff loss that had ended their 2010 season, and that Belichick went off on Brady pointing out the things that he had done wrong.  He said that put him on notice that no one in the organization was above being held accountable.  That it let him know they "expect great things from everyone".  Said it was unlike any meeting he had been in prior.  Think that would happen with Marvin?

What if BB and Brady staged it all because they wanted to make a point to Chad Johnson on his first day, since he was Ochocinco then?