The Nonexistent Run Game

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Let’s talk about the ugly baby with loose diarrhea in the room, the run game. This aspect of the Cincinnati offense sucks worse than an EF-5 tornado and it is the reason the Bengals’ time of possession is calculated with a femtosecond laser. It’s that short.

Joe Mixon and Giovani Bernard are getting stuffed like a Thanksgiving turkey at or behind the line of scrimmage on nearly every run play. Not only are the linemen not hitting secondary blocks, they’re missing their primary assignments now too. To my eye the line is getting worse at run blocking.

There are no gaps. Period.