09-06-2018, 04:10 PM
Bengals will have a Top 3-5 defense when Burfict is back/in playing form, but will be in the 12-15 range when he's not around, and the difference will be solely based upon run defense. The run defense has struggled for years without Burfict. I don't think Vigil/Evans/Williams are going to change that this year.
They should have a monster DL, so long as they don't commit to starting Michael Johnson and playing him the majority of the snaps.
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Interesting thing I read in that article: In the Lions section, they said Matt Patricia never had any great individual pass rushers in New England. I'm sorry, but did Chandler Jones stop being a Pro Bowler/All-Pro? He had 11.5 and 12.5 sack seasons with New England and 11 and 17 sack seasons with Arizona.
Plus Rob Ninkovich had 3 straight 8 sack seasons with New England, bracketed by two 6.5 sack seasons.
There's a lot of teams out there who wish they had no great individual pass rushers that could give them 8 and 11-12 sack seasons. Lol
They should have a monster DL, so long as they don't commit to starting Michael Johnson and playing him the majority of the snaps.
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Interesting thing I read in that article: In the Lions section, they said Matt Patricia never had any great individual pass rushers in New England. I'm sorry, but did Chandler Jones stop being a Pro Bowler/All-Pro? He had 11.5 and 12.5 sack seasons with New England and 11 and 17 sack seasons with Arizona.
Plus Rob Ninkovich had 3 straight 8 sack seasons with New England, bracketed by two 6.5 sack seasons.
There's a lot of teams out there who wish they had no great individual pass rushers that could give them 8 and 11-12 sack seasons. Lol
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