10-12-2017, 01:23 PM
(10-11-2017, 08:05 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: How many times you heard that ? Thousands for sure, and I think there's a good bit of truth in it. Right now we have the #2 defense in yards. #2 defense against the pass, and we're 2nd in sacks with 18. It's a passing league right ?
We've got a pretty good defense ! I'd say it's pretty safe to say we'll end up the season in the top ten in the league, perhaps in top 5 ? Lawson is coming on strong as a force in the pass rush. Geno has 4 sacks, and a pleasant surprise is MJ playing in the interior with 3 ! Burfict is all over the place, Vigil is developing.
I believe this defense is only going to improve as the offense starts getting it together and staying on the field longer.
Question is, is this defense good enough to carry this team through the offensive struggles that still I'm pretty sure lie ahead ?
Can this team really reach the playoffs ?
I think this could be our best Defense of all time, there was a thread asking this question and at that time i
said it was too early. It still is but to do all these things you speak of with an Offense that cannot run the ball
is even more impressive. All the while getting put into bad positions by the Offense in two of our five games.
The Ravens game and then this last Bills game where AJ was responsible for 2 of our 3 turnovers.
The Bills 16 points were scored off of turnovers and we still beat them with this Defense.
The Offense should only get better under Lazor and we are seeing some improvement every week with the
O-line. This should help the running game and getting either Ross, Malone or Core out there for some speed
as well.
Look for the Defense to just get better. Now lets curb stomp the Steelers ass.
