Bengals Defense now 3-4 hybrid

[SunsetBengal]

(03-04-2020, 10:21 PM)BengalChris Wrote: We happen to not have any "good" LBers and only one good safety. Pratt is okay, but he wasn't in the "good" range last season. I figured we needed 2 new LBers this off season, but if we're going to put 4 on the field we'll need 3 - my book.

And, I'd like to point out that the competition the Bengals faced in the second half of the season was some of the poorer teams in the league. Against the two teams the Bengals played with winning records in the second half, those two teams scored 49 and 34 points against the defense. And they gave up 35 to a bad Miami team. That's not winning defensive football.

 

Get with the program, in a 3-4 defense, guys like Sam Hubbard and Carl Lawson are now OLBs.  Pratt and Vigil would actually make a decent pair of ILBs in a 3-4 setup.