Paulie G

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(10-20-2016, 05:15 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Shawn Williams has blitzed multiple times and has even been credited with two "QB hurries".  You either don't watch the ganes or have no idea what you are seeing.



You wouldn't know one if you saw him.

Can't find the more recent numbers but in '14 Marvin Lewis was ranked as the 12 most aggressive coach by FooballOutsiders (based on going for it on fourth down)

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2015/aggressiveness-index-2014


If all it took to be a good coach was to blitz every down then every coach would be blitzing every down.

Tell me the number of blitzes by Shawn Williams and any safety or CB on the Bengals as a percentage of defensive snaps, oh picker of the cherries, and I think you will start to get my point (this time, it isn't the one on top of your head).

As far as going for it on fourth down being the yardstick for a coach's balls, that mere suggestion shows your complete ignorance as a fan.  Whenever a team is trailing, and has the ball late in a game, a coach has no choice but to go for it on fourth down.  It also ignores the situation of fourth down, such as field position, distance to gain, etc.

And I didn't say that all the Bengals need to do is blitz more often.  It is a combination of a number of things.  It is a matter of being more aggressive in not being so vanilla in their schemes on both sides of the ball.  It is having your defenders not giving up such a cushion that you don't give up any big plays, but you die a slow death by having uncontested short passes and no pressure on the QB.  It is running the ball with an extra TE in to an 8 man front because the defense isn't challenged by more than two receivers in a pattern.  

Sorry that your understanding is so basic that you believe that aggressiveness is simply a matter of going for it on fourth down.  I really look forward to your analysis on the % of CB and S blitzes in all defensive snaps....and the source.