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(06-16-2020, 08:58 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote:  And like you say much depends on the Oline.

Absolutely -- and it's not just the ability to keep Joe Burrow upright, either; the run blocking needs to be vastly improved as well.  Joe Mixon and Giovani Bernard are talented running backs but it still takes a sizable crease in the defensive line to spring a runner loose into the secondary.  First contact is still made far too early and that's especially why Bernard gets stuffed at the line so many times.  Even if a crease opens often a linebacker shoots the gap and gets to Mixon or Bernard.  This blocking scheme needs repaired fast.  Whenever I see Mixon or Bernard pulled down from behind I know someone missed a block.