09-28-2020, 11:21 AM
(09-28-2020, 03:03 AM)J24 Wrote: 1.) Outside of a few broken plays by Wentz the Run Defense wasn't bad. Outside of Wentz the other guys that carried the ball had 27 Carries for 117 yards at 4.3 yards a carry. Not great but not omg bad either.
2.) They gave up zero sacks last week to the Rams who have Aaron freaking Donald. So there line did improve from week 1 to 2.
3.)You wouldnt give the Bengals the benefit on injuries so stop giving other teams the benefit with injuries. They can only play who is in front of them.
4.) If they played well enough to win then the coach shouldn't be on the hotseat like the OP suggests.
5.) Lamar Jackson scares the shit out of every Defense no matter how good they are.
You keep trying to take plays away and it just doesn’t work like that. Those plays happened and they need to be a part of the analysis. This isn’t some fantasy land, this defense has given up over 150 yards on the ground in three consecutive weeks. That is awful.
Yes, they double-teamed Donald and forced the rest of their line to beat them and they didn’t. I am happy with the pass rush that I saw, I’m not going to take that away from them but I am also not going to think that we have a great pass rush because we beat up on a weaker offensive line.
I have fully acknowledged that it doesn’t help have PS players on the line and it actively makes our defense worse but here is the thing - Geno isn’t going to fix the problem. I’m also not going to be as quick to give a team the “benefit of injuries” when they have been bad for three-plus years now and the defense has been absolutely awful. This defense stinks, specifically the run defense and Lou is at the head of it. He needs to be replaced.
