10-12-2020, 04:31 PM
(10-12-2020, 04:21 PM)ochocincos Wrote: The coverage seemed better but let's not forget the Bengals still lost by 4 scores.
The Bengals still allowed Ingram over 5 YPC and they had 161 yards on the ground total, which is not good.
One score was a fumble recovery for TD (not on defense) and one TD drive started from the 31 off a god awful interception (partially on defense). You held Jackson to 50% throwing and 180 yards in the air with an interception and a couple other dropped interceptions. Running wise, while they did give up 161 they allowed 76 on two plays, and outside those two plays did pretty well containing it for most of the day. In reality, another 44 yards of that rushing came after Reader left the game including two of Ingrahams biggest runs of the game. I think the Reader loss though probably submarines any gains we made in run defense for the year.
This isn't about excuses, it's looking past the box scores at what was occurring on the field. In context, I think the defensive performance was quite good all things considered. You took a team averaging 160 a game rushing and kept them to their average it just so happens they are one of the best rushing teams in the league.
