Bye, Josh Malone and Hardy Nickerson!

[*psychdoctor*]

(09-01-2019, 06:09 PM)Joelist Wrote: They may be planning to go 4-2-5 with the fifth DB being a safety who is frequently up like a LB (Shawn Williams probably). We have the secondary depth to do this.

The 4-2-5 would have worked better with a healthy Dennard.  But I agree that S. Williams will be closer to LOS.  I also think they will go 5-1-5, and 5-2-4 with 1-2 standing DL players sort of like the zone blitz scheme the Steelers used a few years ago.   The teeth of the Bengals defense is their DL group.  A lot of talent on that DL, especially if Geno stays healthy.  

Of course these alignments comes at a price...Teams will throw to the flat and hit crossing TE patterns that for the love of God, Bengals cannot seem to cover TE.