[Bengal Cat]

I think you're agreeing with me, right Cat? Because I certainly wasn't blaming the Bengals' offense for the defense's struggles.

The problem with the Bengals' secondary is that even though they may not give up a lot of big plays, they still keep allowing the other team to get first downs. When the other team continuously moves the chains, they will score a lot, keep our offense off the field, and keep the entire defense sucking wind all game.

Yes I agree with you. As i said in another post....teams are dinking & dunking us to death with short passes. Its almost like we are in prevent mode without being in prevent formation. I guess Chuck is pleased with it though. Heres a quote from him after the Saints game last week......

Bresnahan"Our coverage was better. Not any big plays to speak of with the longest pass 19 (yards) and the longest run nine," Bresnahan said. "But we have to be more consistent."

I don't know about you guys, but I'd rather take a chance on our DB's covering the big play than letting teams just walk down the field easily and scoring, all the while burning 8 minutes off the clock. Give a team a shot at the big play and more than likely, they don't complete it.......takes a perfect pass (longer) and catch........unlike the short stuff. Also More.....is it just me or do our DB's hardly ever get up to the line of scrimmage and try to bump a reciever off his pattern within the 5 yards? IMO this defensive scheme is not aggressive enough.

Exactly what you said More.