People keep bashing the offense

[kevin]

(11-23-2017, 09:56 AM)bfine32 Wrote: Is New England a playoff caliber defense?

YES....they started slow with injuries, but if you look at their last 6 games they are back to not giving up points.  Don't get bogged down in September and look at teams rolling to play-offs and what they have done lately.  The Patriots Defense is Back after a rocky start in September, but the heck with September, they are playing play-off win defense now in November.  I had them and dropped them in Fantasy Football early on. I figured the coach would right the ship, but I couldn't wait for that. The New England coach has turned it around and the Patriots are back to playing great defense, their season points against even rising near the top and Fantasy owners have been adding them back on fast. The Bengals are a good defensive add on this week against Cleveland. Some owners have Bengals but I don't and for one reason only. Our defense gets no help from our lousy offense.

So you people can computer geek this to death with computer stats and slide rules and color charts or whatever. You can pound away at Bengals D on 3rd down all day. THE FACTS ARE : Mike Brown let Zeitler and Whitworth both leave but he kept Bodine. It appears he drafted two real losers at tackle in 2015. The Bengals end up with one of THE WORST offensive lines in their 50 year history. .....Add in that our scorers are gone. Jones and Sanu are gone and Eifert and Hill still around but no longer scoring touchdowns. These four put a lot of points on the board as Bengals going to play-offs every year. The players replacing them have yet to put up points and takes Bengals back to Dalton to Green one trick pony show for defenses to smother and cover. Ross joins the list of another top pick that was too injured to play his rookie year. We add Ross to WJ3, Ogbouhi, Kirkpatrick and is there an NFL rule that says we can only draft first round players that do us no good their rookie year. LaFell, Boyd, Ross, Malone, Mixon have yet to put up the points of Jones, Sanu, Eifert and Hill. ...So NO BLOCKING, and LACK OF POINT SCORERS.

The Bengals are without a doubt one of the worst offenses in the NFL. Just look at Bengals second half points in 2017. There aren't any. The Bengals have had no offense all season in the second half of games. This would be OK if the NFL only played to halftime and game over. The Bengals offense has not returned from the locker room after halftime all season. ....Now the Bengals defense is still good and they still have one of the best D Lines in Bengals 50 year history. Any offense at all and the Bengals would be a power house team. Mike Brown however saw no need to keep key offensive line players and key touchdown scorers and thanks to Mikey Boy the offense is awful.

Some say, don't bash the offense and it's a team game and the defense is just as bad. I get your team concept but it's wrong. It's wrong because every year some teams are bad all over. Some teams are good all over. Some are good on offense. Some are good on defense. The 2017 Bengals fall into the good defense but just lousy awful offense. We saw this coming in as Bengals were rated the worst offensive line in preseason by media and not fake media, media was 100 % right. This offensive line stinks as bad or worse than media predicted.

You can turn it upside down, sideways, try all computer geek tricks in the book. The facts are that we have the worst O Line in NFL and also have lost too many point scorers. This gives us a horrible offense. We still have a very good defense that with any offense at all would be an NFL power. Atkins, Dunlap, the young guys coming on, many teams would love to have our defense. No NFL team wants our offense because IT STINKS. The Browns might have a better offense in 2018 than the direction we are going. We have no blocking.

The Bengals do have a good defense and Champion New England Patriots are playing good defense again after a rocky September start. Look at their points given up in games in November and October and you will see that very good coach has them back on track. Could Patriots make it back to Super Bowl with our defense, probably yes considering their coaching. Could Patriots make it to Super Bowl with our offense ? No team can ever win with this awful of an offensive line. We go into the 2018 season with a problem that may not get fixed in 2018. It's hard to come up with a good O line in one off season. Plus we have Mike Brown who refuses to pay offensive linemen from 1991 to the now. Our O line problem goes into 2018 being a huge problem and it will hold this team around last place until cohesive team work blocking across the line is established, and that takes more than one off season I'm sorry to say.