Ask Jim Owczarski

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I was listening to Tony Pike on Mo Eggar's show.   He said that the concern he had was that the pressure Minnesota was killing the Bengals' offense with was up the middle.  Up till then I'd been hearing it was mostly coming through Fisher on the left edge.

So if they are still cramming our interior offensive line into Dalton's lap we would seem to have a really serious problem as that is a veteran group - and this has been a problem for the Bengals' offense against good defenses.

My questions are: was the pressure coming from inside, outside or both?

And if it's coming up the middle is that just one player's issue (Bodine) or is it all three?

I'm thinking if we don't solve that problem we will not be going to the playoffs this year.