Defense

[SunsetBengal]

(09-13-2024, 02:51 PM)higgy100 Wrote: LOL.They did NOT play well enough in this type of game. If you understand football you would not say that. Got killed in TOP, killed on the ground even when NE said we're running it, missed at least 5-6 crucial easy tackles that were at or close to the LOS, gave up the same inside coverage on the slant play for multiple 3rd/2nd down conversions and in the most important defensed drive of the game NE ran for a 1st down untouched for 25 yards in 4 plays and smearing the ball in the faces of the defenders saying "here it is so stop us". If you consider all that "well enough to win" then you just flew in here from Saturn.

It is the most asinine thing to say that the Bengals played well enough defensively. NE could have reared back and thrown another 10-12 passes and scored more based on what we saw but NE was smart enough to know that their real opponent that day was not the Bengals but the clock. It was big an ass-kicking as any 6 point game could tell you.

Actually, I do know football well enough to know that when the offense only produces two sustained drives the entire game, it's going to subject the defense to fatigue from being on the field seemingly all game long. What's asinine is not holding the coaching staff accountable for the offense's ineptitude.