How bad is the rest of the -dline at pass rushing?

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(04-07-2025, 12:38 AM)puddycat Wrote: In defense of the DL sack numbers:
There is lots of talk about how bad the Bengals line was outside of Trey.  I would like to point out a few stats.

The Bengals got more sacks from their DL(34.5) than any team in the NFL but Houston(42.5),
They did this with Hubbard starting 14 games and having 2 sacks.
Denver led the league in sacks with 63, 39.5 coming from the LB position in a 3-4.  The top 4 sacking teams all run a 3-4.
The Bengals got ZERO sacks from their LBs and Safeties and 1.5 from their CBs. This is some vanilla BS.

I still think the Bengals need to draft a pass rusher this year, but I fully expect Al Golden to get some contributions from elsewhere on the defense.

Lol, by removing OLBs you removed 3-4 defenses from contention which is half of the league. It also removes 7 of the top-11 (two guys are tied for 10th) guys in sacks... and of the 4 remaining guys, 1 is ours (Hendrickson) and 2 are on the team with more than us (Houston).

So yes, if you carve out all the other good players, then Hendrickson is single-handedly able to carry out DL to nearly the top of the remaining. Lol