01-03-2017, 04:35 PM
(01-03-2017, 04:21 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Bengals were not leading going into the fourth quarter against the Broncos. They took the lead with a FG on the second play of the fourth quarter, but the defense allowed two 80+ yard td drives and a pass went of Uzo's hands that was intercepted. Hard to hang that loss on Zampese's scheme.
I didn't say leading going in, dude. I said leading. As in.. at any point in the 4th quarter. What's it matter if they had the lead at 15:00 to go in the 4th or 5:00 to go? They were in position to win. Either the D gave up that lead or the offense couldn't answer back in the 4th quarter. The end.
The offense also failed to score many points in the 2nd half a bunch as well, which is why them having the lead in the 4th is even more amazing. The team's players just didn't forget how to play in the 2nd half of games. The offensive game plan choked.
Special teams killed them in several games, I'm not blaming the OC on that because they got close enough to kick a FG or a PAT and that is on another unit to get done. Anything else, including the play that you mentioned.... is the Offensive unit's job to get done and the OC is the guy in charge of that. It's on him to have the guys ready to get their job done and put them in position to do so. That clearly didn't happen late in games. They disappeared sometimes for entire halves.
