10-10-2022, 09:44 AM
(10-10-2022, 08:05 AM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: Joe Burrow is absolutely right. There is nothing down the field. Defensive coordinators have seen plenty of film on the 2021 Cincinnati Bengals and they have successfully countered the deep threat. Play "two high safety" and the Bengals have no answer.
With this said, it marks the first time Joe has implicitly called out the coaches. Every other press conference from 2020 onward has featured classic Burrow-isms like, "I need to play better," but this is different. Teams have made the Bengals one-dimensional on offense and if the run gets stuffed as well, the offense sputters along.
But they had the recipe to win that game last night if ZT doesn't crap his pants on the 2 yard line. Threw some screens, had the running game going with good push by the OL mid/late game and threw underneath stuff to perfection. You're not always going to do what your game plan dictates.
You win the AFC north by being physical and they had momentum and physicality working for them and ZT got fancy. Irony in all of this is that when the run game is worthless he'll keep feeding the ball to Mixon inside the 10 but when it's working as it did from late 2nd quarter on he gets fancy. I'm running the ball 3x in that series.
