07-28-2015, 02:21 PM
(07-28-2015, 02:10 PM)djs7685 Wrote: Don't forget, in that game our offense had 9 meaningful drives (10 drives total but 1 was a kneel down to end the 1st half). They produced more than 32 yards on TWO of those drives. They produced 17 or less yards on FIVE of those drives. The other 2 drives were of 25 and 32 yards. No points for the entire offense, 2 FGs though, woooo!
I have this strange feeling that if the defense generated the multitude of turnovers that the biased posters come to expect, it would have led to not much more than some extra incompletions on the stat sheet and more palms on the foreheads of Bengals' fans.
The offense has been abysmally, historically awful. The defense has actually been solid in a couple of the games and then mediocre or worse at times as well. Those that want to put on the spin and make it "equal blame" for both sides of the ball are just taking all objectivity out of this and posting with their extreme emotions. There is nothing equal about how the offense and defense have played in the playoff games.
I said nothing about "equal blame". Just that I would expect a defense supposedly as good as ours to generate defensive pressure by forcing turnovers.
Even if the offense improves, we wouldn't go very far with our very vanilla defense.
