Safety is a need

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(12-11-2017, 03:55 AM)treee Wrote: I think it's pretty clear that Safety is a need at this point. We never really recovered after Reggie Nelson left. Illoka and Smith are both mediocre at best in pass coverage. We need a ball hawk to help us with these TEs and RBs out of the backfield. Definitely not a bigger need than Oline, but I'd say LB and Safety are probably tied as far as need goes.

Safety production, or lack thereof, is largely a function of the players in front of them.  If they have excellent DT and LB corps in front of them, it greatly impacts their ability to play the position.

Fej made a lot of solo tackles yesterday, in space, against some very good RBs.  He wasn't getting a lot of help back there in coverage from the LBs, either.

I think the Bengals showed their depth of starting-caliber talent is paper thin at LB and DT yesterday.