08-12-2025, 04:30 PM
(08-12-2025, 02:46 PM)GodFather Wrote: Remember back in the 2010 season when everyone was absolutely jacked about the Bengals? We picked up TO in the offseason and coming off a bitter loss against the Jets but thinking this upcoming year is going to put the pieces together for us finally.
Then the preseason started and the team looked absolutely awful and the excuse over and over was "We are playing vanilla, we dont want to show our playbook" And when the season started it was the Great Shitshow we are too often used too.
Well after watching this defense last week, all I thought was its the Great Shitshow all over again with this group of defensive players. The only difference..and a big one is we have Burrow and Chase that are the best in their category. Is ownership going to waste another year of their talent with a completely inept defense? I didnt see anything positive when watching the 1st team defense get smoked by a second team offense in Philly..
This team just has to be average and with our offense we can go far...but if they cant even muster that underachieving objective, its gonna be another long season watching us lose games that score 41-38...
Not me, if our Defense can just be middle of the road under Golden this team is going to be tough for anybody. The starting OL looked good
along with Chase Brown, we get a running game with Joe Burrow, Ja'Marr, Tee, Mike G and look out. This will help the Defense and we actually
tackled better against the Eagles than last season which is a good sign, especially in just the first preseason game.
I think this game could of been a wake up call. Good for our Defense to struggle before the season begins and get everything ironed out. With
new coaches it was pretty dumb to think we wouldn't struggle a bit. Get it over with. Our young DT's in Kris Jenkins and McKinnley Jackson
looked good, we just need the youth to grow and if we can get push in the middle our Defense could really improve.
Trey will be extended by the regular season so we will have the sack leader back, we added Shemar who looks like a terror out there and is way
more athletic than Sam Hubbard was last year. Logan and Knight had a tough outing against the Eagles but should improve and gain chemistry
together and no more of that holding the ball carrier up to strip the ball out crap we got from Pratt.
The Secondary is young and should improve as well. Playing that soft cushion crap would make any Corner look bad. Once we are playing more
aggressive I can judge the Secondary and specifically the Corners much better.
