Ben aggressive in crunch time – hard counts, defenders react, Ben now knows coverage

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(12-11-2017, 01:28 PM)depthchart Wrote: Big Ben in crunch time – hard counts, defenders react, Ben now knows he has man coverage or Zone, signals to his receivers & team what to do now pre snap, then aggressively carves the Defense for another Last second clutch win. Walks off the Field for an interview.

Repeat next game.

Contrast this to what the Bengals appear to be doing in Crunch time which is call a play and run the play. Far less aggressive than Big Ben in crunch time. Lacking the Confidence and communication needed to let our QB get reads on what the Defense is about to do and then adjusting pre snap to attack the Defense. The Bengals seem to be in the hoping we can run out the Clock before they beat us mind frame in Crunch time while Big Ben and other Great QBs are hard counting Defenses & aggressively looking for Tells from those Defenses to allow them to audible Crunch time attacks.

Big Ben did this again last night against the Ravens and Luck has little to do with the Steelers success. They are outsmarting their opponents and have Crunch time down to a Science.

The Bengals seem to call plays while keeping an eye on the game clock hoping for a first down or two. Call it and run it more often than not, many times right into the Teeth of what the Defense is doing.

We make them use their Timeouts when we are on Offense in Crunch time as we 3 and out our way to another loss.

Ben, Rodgers, Peyton and Brady get pre snap reads on the Defenses in Crunch time and this gives them the Confidence to be Aggressive with audibles that Expose the Defense in the most important seconds of the game. Antonio Brown knows right where to be based on these reads & audibles and they take the Candy from the Baby.

In Crunch Time, our Coaches are calling plays to "execute" while their QBs are reading & PLAYING the Defenses.

Then we say again that we were only so many seconds away from running out the Clock and surpassing the Steelers. We will get them next time but we won't because they have The Crunch Time Formula.

Interesting observation.  I recall in 2015, when Hue Jackson was our OC, we allowed the QB to make such reads, and tore defenses a new one.  Reports all over the league were that Dalton was getting very good at pre-snap reads, etc.  Now, as you noted, we don't do that.  I wonder what the difference is?  New receivers?  Line issues? QB regression?  Bad coaching?