ilikebushes
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OK....we've reached another slump in the offseason....not a whole lot going on except another member of the Bengals is getting charged for (insert any random felony) again....
So lets talk about something that I haven't heard alot about since the season ended....Our defensive coordinator and his play calling...
Last season we seemed to have such different game plans from week to week that even if our defense wasn't last I think I still might have been upset....the first four games we blitzed maybe one or two times (not exactly but it seemed like it was even less than that)......then the Seattle game rolled around and I was sick to my stomach at what might happen to us on national t.v again....and low and behold....we see Roman Harper lighting it up....he was darting in from his position and wreaking havoc.....his pressure definitely had an affect on the rhythm of Seattle's offense.....and after such a beautiful display of defensive play calling.....one of my favorite performances all season for the D last year.....we went right back to the Chicago mentality of bend but dont break in the next game....but we werent and aren't chicago's D....so we just bended over and we broke....yes yes we did win the next game but it was one of the problems that we had last year that no one is talking about right now.....we obviously need to upgrade our personnel but Gibbs needs to come out and blitz like crazy this season....our defense had no attitude at all last year....no identity.....I hope vilma can fire everyone up.....we need a leader on D....its obviously not will smith or charles grant....the only thing they are leading is a sack of money to the bank (will smith will be soon anyway)...
what is everyone's thoughts on the fact that we still have the same DC from last season?? I was pretty upset at the end of last season with Gibbs and I didnt have a doubt in my mind that he wouldn't be removed this offseason.....Now that it is obvious that he is still here what if anything can this guy do to improve this defense.....I guess the whole point I'm trying to make is....after seeing the bi-polar defensive play calling last year, even if we do upgrade this D can Gibbs be expected to utilize them and turn this unit around??
So lets talk about something that I haven't heard alot about since the season ended....Our defensive coordinator and his play calling...
Last season we seemed to have such different game plans from week to week that even if our defense wasn't last I think I still might have been upset....the first four games we blitzed maybe one or two times (not exactly but it seemed like it was even less than that)......then the Seattle game rolled around and I was sick to my stomach at what might happen to us on national t.v again....and low and behold....we see Roman Harper lighting it up....he was darting in from his position and wreaking havoc.....his pressure definitely had an affect on the rhythm of Seattle's offense.....and after such a beautiful display of defensive play calling.....one of my favorite performances all season for the D last year.....we went right back to the Chicago mentality of bend but dont break in the next game....but we werent and aren't chicago's D....so we just bended over and we broke....yes yes we did win the next game but it was one of the problems that we had last year that no one is talking about right now.....we obviously need to upgrade our personnel but Gibbs needs to come out and blitz like crazy this season....our defense had no attitude at all last year....no identity.....I hope vilma can fire everyone up.....we need a leader on D....its obviously not will smith or charles grant....the only thing they are leading is a sack of money to the bank (will smith will be soon anyway)...
what is everyone's thoughts on the fact that we still have the same DC from last season?? I was pretty upset at the end of last season with Gibbs and I didnt have a doubt in my mind that he wouldn't be removed this offseason.....Now that it is obvious that he is still here what if anything can this guy do to improve this defense.....I guess the whole point I'm trying to make is....after seeing the bi-polar defensive play calling last year, even if we do upgrade this D can Gibbs be expected to utilize them and turn this unit around??