***Preseason Gameday Thread - Bengals @ Eagles***

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(08-08-2025, 09:11 AM)Ell Prez Wrote: It’s not the score. It’s also not “well the starters didn’t play much and they were missing so and so”. Many here have said Golden’s new scheme alone would improve the defense. So why didn’t our 2’s play better against the eagles 2’s? We saw the exact same type of play from the defense as we did for 17 games last year. A new scheme isn’t going to fix bad players. We have bad bad players, period. We didn’t do anything to address the D Line, linebackers, or secondary. Sorry rookies don’t count, as they didn’t count for much last night

I agree defense looked very bad. I will add Zac said they decided to not show anything defensively (new scheme) and it makes sense. Teams new Lou's tendacies for play callng on certain downs and distances, it will be an unknown for Brown's week 1 if we keep playing a vanilla defense.

My concern is Zac said they knew they would have to win one on one battles which of course se lost. Also for me the DB room which I had great hope struggled especially Turner and Ivey and every saftey in my opinion. Hopefully we play better next week, I am not giving up hope the defense is better just yet.