How To Make the Defense Legit

[NKURyan]

(05-15-2019, 10:57 AM)PAjwPhilly Wrote: Except the thread is about how to use our existing defense. Anyone can write an answer... intercept the pass every time, sack the QB 100x. You cannot control these things, and it is every team's goal. It is an easy answer that really doesn't need to be said.

How can you scheme with our existing defense to make it legitimate?  The best answers I have seen: clog up the middle on running downs, blitz more often, rush 5 on pass downs, improve tackling, more aggressive LB play...

Also... getting our starting unit together would (hopefully) not make this such an issue. 

Yeah, I think there's a pretty big difference between saying "the Bengals should actively choose to utilize the running game more than they did last year to help the defense" and "sack the QB 100x somehow". You can definitely help your defense out with how you call your offense, and the Bengals absolutely need to be smarter about that this year than they were last season.