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I see a lot of threads here about the offense, the O-line etc. But what about the other elephant in the room, defense was absolutely horrible. It's hard to keep up or even be in a game when the defense is allowing the offense to do whatever they want. They gave up a total of 572 yards. 313 yards passing and 259 yards rushing. No sacks and having a difficult time stopping the run from what is probably the Bengals strongest position, the D line.
Let's hope they were just over confident, under prepared or whatever because those are horrible stats as well.
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They sucked at the fundamental aspects of football.
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I guess no one wants to talk about the terrible defense that gave up 41 points and just want to focus on the terrible O-line? I don't know. I have not read all the other threads, too tired. But it seems defense was a huge issue. No team can win when they let the other team do whatever they want on offense to that degree. But what do I know.... How many teams with a half decent defense give up 41 points?
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It was weird because they played so we'll last week then they just played like complete shit. The only thing I can think of it was a Physical game last week and they just were not ready to be physical this week. The 49ers also attacked the edges and it seemed our lack of Athleticism at LB hurt us severely.
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The 49ers were using slant zone schemes and screens to negate the Bengals D-Line. The 49ers RB also made good decisions and played fast. The backers looked lost and secondary looked out of position on a couple plays.
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259 yards rushing is a stat straight outta Tecmo Bowl...that hurts. Right now we are getting 29.5 rushing yards per game so that would be 8.8 games of our run game. Again, it's only week 2, but that's some amazing crap.
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The defense is definitely the biggest problem, even if our offense was good it would be hard to win many games with the defense giving up 500 plus yards. Horrific job of setting the edge, tackling along with blown coverages in the secondary. Our D-line got beat up and our linebackers got exposed for being severely below average.