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If I were Jim Haslam I would be all in Austin and Marvin's ears shouting to experiment a little,like bringing Brandon Wilson and Jordan Evans in on third and obvious passing situations at linebacker..I would be coaching hard to find somebody that can play that nickelbacker role..we've forced the most third downs thru 8 weeks our problem is not being able to match up in obvious passing situations..
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Makes me wonder...if we blitzed more would the additional pressure lower the number of pass yards we give up? Or would it just make the short passes even more lethal because we'd have fewer people to miss tackles?
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Here are some blitz numbers for the Bengals defense the last 4 years under Guenther. I don't have a "ranking" for total blitzes because PFO splits the blitz numbers into "rush 5" and "rush 6+".
Remember that if a 4-3 defense has to blitz a lot to get pressure then they are in trouble. For a 4-3 to be successful they have to be able to get decent pressure with just the front four.
RUSH 5 rank
'15....31st
'16....32nd
'17....30th
'18....30th
RUSH 6+
'15....10th
'16....18th
'17....24th
'18....23rd
DB BLITZ
'15.... 6th
'16....14th
'17....24th
'18....23rd
TOTAL BLITZ % ("rush 5" plus "rush 6+")
'15....22.7%
'16....19.2%
'17....17.2%
'18....15.2%
Clearly the Bengals have been trending lower in their blitz percentage, but it also looks like the league overall is blitzing less.