ESPN. Bengals on the Rise

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(04-11-2020, 02:31 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Well, nothing against you, as you seem like a pretty decent and rational person, but we will just continue to disagree on some fine points here.  I think that if the Bengals are serious about running 3-4, 3-3-5, and 4-2-5 looks on defense, the addition of Bell tells me that they are going to be implementing some 3 Safety sets.  Having both Williams and Bell, who statistically speaking are similar players, allows them to be utilized in masked coverages, with one playing "star" LB hybrid, and the other in full coverage.  The Bengals want to take away the entire middle of the field, and that's a good thing.

So, what I'm basically saying is that I'm not convinced that Bell was brought in to replace Williams, as much as to play in coordination with he and Bates.  I agree that Waynes is better in the run and gives up more completions than Kirkpatrick, but his tackling is so much better that I kind of feel like it is not a factor.  He (Waynes) is younger, has sustained fewer injuries, and has a much higher utilization rate than Kirkpatrick.  (a player ready to take the field is infinitely more valuable than one out often with injury) 

I agree that's what the Bengals want to do with Williams and Bell. There going to play more 3 safety looks out there this year. The Biggest question is who plays LB and who plays safety in those packages?
The problem with that though is what happens when a team decides to keep us in our base package and kills us with multiple TEs.  I think it's nice to have both Williams and Bell out there but we just can't rely on stopping the pass with just our Nickel units.