Chase Young or Joe Burrow ?

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(11-27-2019, 01:46 AM)Synric Wrote: I would love to have Chase Young he looks the part of a dominant pass rusher but the Bengals defensive line is far from the biggest issue and he wouldn't do anything to drastically change the outlook of the team.

You sure about that? We are 27th in points allowed and 32nd in yards allowed, now the offense is basically the mirror image of that but I think people are still glossing over just how bad this defense has been for years now. While sacks aren't everything, we are 31st in the league in sacks at 16 total. I'd say the Bengals defensive line is actually one of our biggest issues but people fondly think of the names on the line over production. Atkins has 4.5 and Dunlap has 2.5, those two COMBINED would be good for 27th in the league in sacks yet make up $25 Million in cap expenditures.

The problem with bad defensive lines that can't generate pressure is that they expose your other levels of defense even worse. Fixing the line is the quickest way to mask deficiencies at every other level of the defense. Our linebackers have never been good here, and our CB's have been average since Hall and Joseph, but we had really good defenses because we had elite D lines for years.