Special teams struggling
Last season, the Bengals were first in average punt return yards allowed and sixth in kickoff return yards allowed.
They are 29th in both categories after two games. They are giving up an average of 14.5 yards a punt return and 27.9 a kickoff return.
With so much turnover on special teams, it looks like the Bengals are trying to cover kicks while moving pieces on a chess board.
posted by Mark at 5:07 PM
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Post a Comment*And yet nobody will be cut and no coaches will be fired. Mike Brown will laugh all the way to the bank thanks to the sellouts.
Tell me about it. How can you blame Leon Hall for not catching B. Edwards. He was too tired from running up and down the field on special teams. Bengals should have stepped up and signed some of their better special teams players during the off season, instead of letting them walk. Classic cheap Bengals
Only 2 games....it'll change.
Mark,
I agree with the rest that you need to stand up to Marvin's arrogance. He is quickly becoming a joker. But we are the suckers because Lewis continues to put out the same worthless players on defense year after year and we keep buying tickets and apparel. Gaithers is the only player on the defense that could start on a good team. The rest are clowns like Rod "Toast" Jones errr Leon Hall.
Our drafts suck.
Home games are sold out for the season. Amazing how starved this town is for a winner but we are settling for average at best from our pro sports teams. Mike Brown has no motivation to make any moves to improve the team as the masses will come to every game in spite of the product on the field.
Hopefully the UC football team can continue it's good season to give us something to feel good about this year.
In all fairness to the special teams allowing such punt/kickoff runback yardage.... you have to recognize that the Browns' Cribbs is probably one of the best, if not the best, at runbacks and probably will be named as an all-pro special teams player! He lit up teams last year and in pre-season this year. Wish we had him!!!
Mark,
Do you see any personnel changes this week? Ed Hartwell for the D or someone else for special teams?
Mark can you be the beat writer for the bengals Paul D just doesn't get it. Unless it is right in front of his face obvious.
Play properly the defense that’s called and D.A. doesn’t mess with like you’re a third teamer. Blah blah blah, I don’t understand much,” says Paul Daugherty. Stick to writing articles about golf because you apparently don’t get football or think you are above it. Or maybe you were even offended by Coach Lewis’s comments.
. A 6th grade football player could tell you if you play perfect defense you will win the game, if you make mistakes you will lose the game, is that so hard for the media to understand. The players make mistakes because they are human. Football players are human too or did you forget to read your own book about Chad, I am sure it covered the various human aspects of Chad and not just football. John Thornton can’t spell it out any clearer for you. When the pressure is on people make mental errors. The Bengals rose to the occasion against the Ravens but folded against the Browns. Each is only a game and a season it does not make. But apparently “ I don’t understand” is a sufficient answer for Paul and his readers. That’s why I try not to read Paul’s articles because he truly doesn’t understand anything except for golf, I’ll give him golf, but I don’t like golf and the feeling seems like Paul doesn’t really like football or he would take the time to understand.
Mark:
I'd love to hear you and the others weigh in on why teams no longer go for "coffin corner" punts. My friends and I go berserk everytime a team just lets a punt fly 50 yards and it goes into the end zone for a net 20. This isn't just the Bengals. In fact, it's so wide spread, I gotta think I'm missing something. What's the deal? I'm telling you, breaking this story could be the path to your first Pulitzer.
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