Now the Entire Country Sees It!

[*ochocincos*]

I guess I view it differently.

I don't see the late-game 2-pt conversion attempt as not trusting McPherson to make the XP.
I believe Taylor went for it because he didn't trust the defense at end of game or OT.

Bengals are winless when allowing a team to score 25+ points this season.
The sad part in games the Bengals have allowed 25+ points (5), they have scored 25+ points in each of them and still lost.

The national audience should be seeing the atrocity that is the Bengals defense unable to figure out how to counter opposing defenses and cause some timely turnovers.
This defense is worse than the Chuck Bresnahan defenses in the mid-late 2000's that were near-last in yards allowed because at least they were finding ways to reduce points allowed.

Bengals have no impactful playmakers on defense other than Hendrickson right now. And when I say impactful, I mean turnovers/sacks.
Especially sad given we've seen so many early draft picks invested into the DL and DBs since 2021 (Murphy, Ossai, Jenkins, Turner, CTB, Hill, Battle, Carter).
Murphy especially. How do you spend a late 1st rounder on a guy who has a total of 3.0 sacks and 0 FFs in 462 defensive snaps across 23 games?

The guy the Bengals should have taken in Rd 1 in 2023 should have been Bryan Bresee. Dude has 8.5 sacks in 26 games so far as DT with the Saints, which typically is expected to have lower sack totals compared to edge guys.
I say that with a caveat, as the Bengals likely wouldn't have played Bresee enough nor coached him up well enough like the Saints have, so probably less production in CIN.