If im Zac Taylor this is how I call the first drive of the game.

[kevin]

(01-14-2022, 07:26 AM)BurrowTheGoat Wrote: Attacking the defense where they are weaker IS our identity and what got us here.  Burrow has said it dozens of times in interviews.  

Right, Take what the Defense gives you.  Burrow was great at this at LSU and is no longer a rookie in the NFL.  Burrow has caught up with the speed of the NFL.  He reads NFL Defenses better.  What MAKES the 2021 Bengals far better than the Chad Johnson or AJ Green Bengals is Defenses could double team Chad or Green, and did.   That was our play-off woes.  Chad and Green double teamed.  Defenses can't double team Chase.  Higgins, Boyd, Uzomah, Mixon would eat them alive.  Burrow would eat them alive.  This is why Burrow says attack where they are weak, as in basketball, hit the open man.   Or in baseball, hit the ball where they ain't.   

The Ravens over played Mixon, so Bengals killed them passing.  Bengals found weak spots in Raiders beating them 32 to 13.  Bengals won the 2nd Half of the game as Mixon had a big game.   

So much like the 1981 Bengals, the 2021 Bengals have too many weapons too cover.  So of course Bengals coaches and Burrow are going to attack the Raiders Defense play calls and attack the weak areas of the Defense they are in.  THAT is what Burrow means.  There is no reason for Bengals to throw into double coverage, not with all the top players they have.  If Raiders go into the box to stuff Mixon, pass.  If Raiders double Chase, go to somebody wide open.  Take what the defense gives you, football 101.  Burrow at LSU and now at Bengals is Great at going through his progressions, until he see's the Bengal their Defense leaves wide open.  It really is what makes Burrow great at LSU and now Cincy.  Reading the whole field, and finding the open man.  There is no reason for Bengals to throw into double coverage as they did with Chad or Green in play-offs and lose.  Hit the open man like the 1981 Bengals. 

Now 3rd and 1 or on goal line is different. Bengals are good at putting in the Big Boys and Pushing ahead for 1 yard. Bengals are also better at running out the clock than they have been in decades.

GO BENGALS