The Good, The Bad And Ugly

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(09-12-2016, 02:14 AM)BengalChris Wrote: The Bengals clearly game planned to take Marshall and Decker out of the game and they were successful at this. Marshall had 3 catches for 32 yards and Decker had 2 catches for 37 yards and a TD. By doing that they left the RBs more open. Marshall and Decker can just kill you if you let them get loose. So I'm not particularly concerned about what Forte did.

There were a number of tipped passes that I saw. Didn't count them though. Yes, we didn't get the sacks, but did hold Fitz to only 189 yards.

Agreed.  It seemed clear that they weren't going to give up anything deep.  They thought that taking away those two would frustrate Fitz and he would try to force it in there.  To his credit, he was good at simply taking what the defense was giving him.  I would expect a similar strategy against pissburg, to prevent Brown from anything deep.  They know he catches a minimum of 5 balls per game.  I would bet they contest every pass to him, which is no easy task.