07-07-2015, 11:50 AM
(07-03-2015, 10:56 PM)UDWhoDey Wrote: The old injury excuse, heh? The Bengals might have had a few injuries last year too. A good friend of mine is a Squeelers fan (bad character reference of mine I know) and those fans are the worse with the injury card. Either way, Ravens defense was legit (just ended up with the 2 Bengals Ls), but Bengals can match if the DL can get back to old form.
Not really an excuse. Our secondary consisted of Webb and Smith. Webb was out for one game and Smith was out for another. With the Ravens filling in those missing spots with practice squad caliber corners, the Bengals took advantage of that. The front 7 shut down the run, so they exploited a secondary that was missing key pieces.
Same reason we lost in the playoffs to the Patriots. We had half of a secondary.