5 hours ago
(5 hours ago)Soonerpeace Wrote: You can pick plays back and forth that effected games by the offense or defense. The people who cover the Bengals aren’t doing their homework. The Bengals averaged more points in the fourth quarter than any year under Zac. The offense was not the problem this year. Plain and simple. We were 6th in scoring offense and 25th in scoring defense.
I did say in the beginning of the post that the defense was the reason we didn't make the playoffs. The offense was amazing but that doesn't mean there aren't still areas of concern that we need to improve. Two of the worst guards in the NFL according to PFF apparently. The people who covering them are doing they're homework between watching every game and going thru the tape of every game alot more work than game commentators.
One point to make on the offense is that I've noticed in the past when a teams offense is terrible they're defense might show better statistically because teams don't need to score against them. The same can be said about an offense with a bad defense. Not saying that are defense being terrible made our offense appear good but it does help if even marginally statistically. But my original point was when the offense had to score with a chance to win late in games in tight matchups I believe we failed more than we succeeded.
