03-16-2018, 06:34 PM
(03-16-2018, 04:58 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: The other side of the coin. Adding Chris Baker and Preston Brown especially were also huge moves. Preston Brown might
be the best tackling Linebacker in the NFL. He tackles RB's in the backfield and stays healthy and out of trouble. Preston is
exactly the type of LB this Defense needed to add and he is in his prime.
Also think that Billings will get much better this year once he is finally over that ACL injury. Those injuries take time as we
saw with Geno when he was a shell of himself after his ACL tear. I also like Glasgow.
Need to improve big time in stopping the run from last year if we are going to get back being a top Defense.
Agree with everything you said, expect we’ve always disagreed with Billings. I liked him coming out of the draft but I think he might be a tad overhyped by some Bengals fans. I personally did that with Dawson coming out of TCU. Billings had a mencius tear on one of the the 1st days of training camp in his rookie year, Geno completely torn his ACL mid season. I think the injury could have affected him but not to that degree. Hopefully he does well this year if not we need Baker to step up. Agreed we need to get better at stopping the run. Too many 5 yard runs on 1st down, plus Bell from Pitt runs all over us. If we can get in passing downs I like are personal, with Lasown, Dunlap and Geno Rushing and the emergence of Jackson III and Dennard.
