Jordan Willis

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(08-21-2019, 05:40 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Man I jumped on the defense should be great last year anchored by our great DL.

I so hope I was just a year off, but I do like the addition of Wynn, Lawson back from injury and bigger and Willis progressing. We were best when we had a 8 man DL to rotate the 1st 3 quarters so Geno and Dunlap were fresh in quarter #4 and the other team's OL was not fresh.

I did the same thing...a lot of us did.  And Hubbard turned out to be a real find.  Austin turned out to be a real dud.  After a couple weeks of adjusting to the new "scheme" after his departure, the defense did ok.  They averaged about 20 points a game, and that would be solid.  They did that without Lawson, Glasgow, and others.  

What has me most excited about this year's defense is the possibility of a bit more aggressiveness.  More blitzing.  We haven't seen it yet in the preseason (maybe tonight?  Since I think Lawson will play?) but one thing that I have always been frustrated with was our lack of an answer to maximum protection packages.  Tell me if this sounds familiar:

Bengals rush four, play patty-cake, six blockers hold them down easily, QB pats ball, patty-cake continues, QB pats ball, secondary getting tired, QB checks down to a RB or TE for an easy 10 yards.  

Well, Anarumo has been working on a 5-man defensive front line with 2 LBs:

Dunlap-Atkins-Billings-Hubbard-Lawson

I want to see that line.  I want to see what it can do to create pressure and, hopefully, create turnovers.