Bengals Defense now 3-4 hybrid

[BengalChris]

(03-04-2020, 09:41 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Yes, it put's a lot more emphasis on having good LBs and Safeties, which I happen to think is a good thing.  When you can effectively take away the middle of the field as a playground for opposing QBs, it makes the job of the CBs so much easier, as they know where the action is coming.

We happen to not have any "good" LBers and only one good safety. Pratt is okay, but he wasn't in the "good" range last season. I figured we needed 2 new LBers this off season, but if we're going to put 4 on the field we'll need 3 - my book.

And, I'd like to point out that the competition the Bengals faced in the second half of the season was some of the poorer teams in the league. Against the two teams the Bengals played with winning records in the second half, those two teams scored 49 and 34 points against the defense. And they gave up 35 to a bad Miami team. That's not winning defensive football.