Jason La Canfora picks Bengals for an ugly season.

[Benton]

(08-29-2021, 12:28 PM)Sled21 Wrote: Well, so far the pre season would suggest they have fixed the pass blocking of the oline. We played the top 2 defensive fronts in the league and they hardly sniffed the QB, albeit the run game still seems to be in flux. We are tons deeper at CB this year than we were last year. Same on the D line. LBers, which were a liability last year, are looking much better. Not sure how you can say we didn't improve the negatives. The play so far suggests we have.

We had some addition by subtraction on the DL and CB, and some decent pickups at both. I agree that both will be better this year. DL was a probably third biggest area of need (behind OL and LB), and CB was down from that.

I mean, sure, we improved, but did we improve at the areas where the reasons we lost were? Not much.

Not trying to argue, just saying the thought process that goes into this.