Cincinnati Bengals Losers: Week 4 Win Over Panthers

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00:00Cam Taylor-Brett falls in this category, and I like Cam a lot,

00:03but something just felt off, and maybe he is battling something. They mentioned it on the

00:06broadcast a few times. Maybe he's battling some kind of injury, but something felt off to me

00:10about Cam, and I don't know why. I don't know what it was, but that's why he falls in this category,

00:16because I know he's a better player than that, and everyone's going to crush him,

00:20and I'm not necessarily there, even though he falls in this category, because he didn't play

00:26as well as we expect him to play, and so you fall in this category, but it's like, all right,

00:30well, why? What's the logic? What's the reason? And I don't know the answer, but Cam Taylor-Brett

00:37had a day to forget on Sunday, and then two others, and these are group things,

00:44but the Bengals' pass rush, they blitzed more on Sunday, and they still didn't sack Andy Dalton,

00:50and I know Trey Hendrickson was able to get his hand on the pass that Dalton was throwing

00:56up and ended up throwing lollipopped up because of Hendrickson disrupting the pass to Von Bell,

01:02and it caused an interception, but they didn't really heat him up much. Not much pressure for

01:06Andy Dalton. Didn't have to deal with it through 40 times. It's not like they weren't having to

01:11drop back, and so that is pretty darn concerning, because if you're not going to make Dalton

01:17uncomfortable or make opposing quarterbacks uncomfortable, well, you want to stop the run,

01:21and they didn't do that either. They gave up 5.3 yards per carry, and so the Carolina Panthers

01:26beat themselves a little bit. Now, this Bengals defense did have a couple of splash plays.

01:30The Chris Jenkins fourth down play, huge to kind of set the tone at least a little bit,

01:36give the Bengals some momentum, and then the other play was the interception. That was huge.

01:41They did get a stop after Ranrico pinned the Panthers back at the 7-yard line late in the

01:47fourth quarter, but you still, I think that the Bengals' pass rush takes a big L for their

01:53performance on Sunday, and then the other thing is just their ability to tackle. The Bengals'

01:57ability to tackle, well, it's lacking. It's like the slider in Madden, the custom sliders,

02:03went all the way down, and they just cannot tackle, and this is a team-wide problem.

02:08Gino Stone had issues. Von Bell had a big missed tackle on Miles Sanders. Dax Hill,

02:13who I thought was really good in coverage on Sunday, struggled again to tackle. Jonathan

02:18Mingo gets by him. Xavier Leguette broke a couple of tackles, like all of these guys,

02:23Gino Stone taking bad angles. Part of it is tackling, and part of it is taking bad angles

02:28and not putting yourself in position to make the tackle, but that is a major, major issue,

02:33especially with the matchup coming this week, but we'll have plenty of time to talk about

02:36Bengals and Ravens. They have to tackle better, and so as far as this overall team is concerned,

02:46not worried about Cam Taylor-Britt, even though he falls in this category,

02:49certainly worried about the pass rush, especially with Trey Hendrickson

02:52dealing with a stinger, according to head coach Zach Taylor. We'll see. Those are weird. It's

02:56basically neck injury. It shoots down your arm, and that's why he's holding his arm weird,

03:02walking off the field, because it's like a nerve issue, so hopefully he's okay, and hopefully he

03:09can play this week, and even if he can, they need to be better, and if he can't,

03:14it's going to be really tough, so how can they fix it? I'm not sure. That's Lou Annarumo's job,

03:19but it is an uphill climb, something that they certainly have to do, especially if they're going

03:24to stop the run as well. Got to be able to heat up the opposing quarterback, get them to third

03:28and long, and then get pressure, and we just didn't see a ton of that. Even though they won,

03:32we didn't see a ton of that, and overall points-wise, you would take that, right?

03:36You would take 10 points in the second half, but the Panthers, it felt like they were moving the

03:40ball up and down the field for the most part, and then my last thought here is the angles part of

03:48it is such a big deal when it comes to tackling, and I've seen too many of these guys take bad

03:53angles, and then they put themselves in bad positions. Got to get these guys down to the

03:56ground.

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