I think this is a very dangerous game for us. The Bengals know the 3-4 very well. They played excellent offense in their last drive and Palmer should be settled now with his receivers having missed most of the preseason. Do not expect them to roll over so easily. If the Packers offense improves upon the Chicago game and plays as well as they did in the preseason, then watch out. Otherwise, do not be surprised if our vaunted defense suddenly looks mediocre against the Bengals.
"TheEngineer" wrote:
I'm not afraid of the Bengals offense. They could muster up one TD drive last week against a Broncos defense that has been consistently horrible. Not saying that they're horrible now, but I still don't consider them an upper echolon defense.
Their defense, though, is pretty scary. Obviously, Orton isn't an amazing QB, but their young corners still nearly shut down Brandon Marshall and Eddie Royal, while their very talented LB group held Buckhalter and Moreno to a very small amount of yards.
The thing that we got going for us is that they still don't have a great D-line, but with Keith Rivers - Dhani Jones - Rey Maualuga at LB and Jonathan Joseph coupled with Leon Hall at CB, that defense is looking pretty decent.
I hope that we can create some mismatches. As decent as their corners are, they're not going to contain Greg Jennings by themselfs. I asume that they'll get a lot of safety help. One of those safeties is Roy Williams... you do the math on that one.