RIP Burrow Era

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(09-08-2024, 10:29 PM)007BengalsFan Wrote: I haven't seen anyone comparing Reader to Donald?  Just because Reader isnt Donald doesnt mean he isnt an effective pass rusher.

Here you go:

(09-08-2024, 07:38 PM)Housh Wrote: The issue i see with this defense is we don’t have an anchor



Rams had Aaron Donald. You knew every game Aaron Donald was gonna do certain things so you could game plan for those things to be done. They KNEW for a fact he was gonna draw a double team so every blitz every zone was called with that in Mind.

What do we know for a fact is gonna happen with our defense? NOTHING.

It used to be Reader. He’s the only player offensive coordinators have to gameplan for besides Trey Hendrickson and we let him go and replaced him with a worse version and thought we’d be fine



ATP I’m questioning the FO and its team building IQ.

This year what to do with Reader was the biggest story. We decided to let him walk….fine. Signing Rankins and drafting 2 DTs tell me that we acknowledged Reader was super important.


I want to say our solution was a simple miss but it may turn out to be season crippling.


A lot of ppl have said this over the years but every snap without Bates or became obvious and now every snap without Reader it becomes more obvious.


We have a safety who erased a whole segment of the field and we had a DT who couldn’t be blocked and they were both CONSISTENT. They did it mostly every game they played in.

What constant do we have now? Trey H is a constant but he’s ineffective at times
For a whole quarter.