Goodberry did analysis of the defense - not pretty

[Joelist]

(11-15-2023, 07:59 AM)No-huddle Joe Wrote: I might get some disagreement here, but I think this is where we miss Vonn Bell the most.  I feel like he was kind of the "leader" of the secondary and did a great job of making sure the things discussed above didn't happen as often.  It just seems like guys are way more open in the Bengals secondary this year than last.  Maybe its just my eyes and statistics don't support it, but what I see on TV tells me differently.

I likewise think we are missing Vonn Bell. He was possibly the one out there (savvy vet) alerting others to the receivers and such. 

Remember a safety a lot of fans didn't "get"? Name of Chris Crocker. Not the best athlete but strangely when he was in the whole back end of the defense played better - turned out he was "quarterbacking" it by reading the offense and alerting the DBs on correct alignment. He would leave and the DBs suddenly played dumb. Come back and better. And so on. Possibly Vonn Bell was playing this role for Lou's D?