How To Make the Defense Legit

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(05-13-2019, 06:42 PM)Jakeypoo Wrote:  I would say this Defense has a top 10 secondary and a top 5 Dline with a healthy.  
In the last 5 games of the year the Defense was on pace per 16 games to have the 5th best 3rd down Defense, 2nd best in allowing first downs, and 11th in scoring.
That's without a Carl Lawson on the edge, a healthy Nick Vigil at LB, and a new toy in Germaine Pratt.
I hope lou saw what Marvin did at the end of last year and copies a lot of it.

Hard to see a Top 5 D line with this group.  They suck against the run.  And for all the vaunted pass rushers, they don't generate a ton of pressure.  Some of the new blood has to step up to get anywhere near a Top 10 unit.  It's sad they're wasting a HoF career and not building around Geno.  The shortest path to the QB is up the middle.  The Bengals have never paired Geno with anything more than middling talent at DT.

The LB's are a bottom 5 NFL unit, if not a bottom 3.  Terrible, no other way to spin it.

The secondary is pretty decent.  A Top 12 unit overall.