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(10-10-2024, 09:21 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: The Bengals defense was terrible last year and Reader was here.

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Only if you've completely forgotten and glossed over the fact that Bates was bad in 2 of his 4 seasons with Lou, okay in 1, and great in 1 and the great one was in 2020 or 3 years prior to when he needed paid. He was magic in the 2021 playoffs, but he was nondescript in the 2022 playoffs. 

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The Bengals mistakes were not failing to re-sign those guys. It was having a bad DC, drafting poorly, and signing bad FAs to replace them.

The last season Bates and Reader played together the defense was a Top 10 scoring defense and the defense  was #1 in QB Rating that season.