Kudos to the defense, they throttled Dalton !

The defense was outstanding in this game, 6 sacks, 2 picks, a fumble recovery, whats really impressive they only allowed 14 yards rushing, and never gave up a touchdown: Bens two picks furnished the points to allow the bungholes to win the game, and the bungies will be 1 and done in the playoffs: Me, I'm sorta galad our playoff run ended because watching this team play this year was like getting water boarded every week...MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL...

 

I just want to knowwhy the D plays great a week then crappy a week......how many teams would we have beaten had the D played like they did against the bengals yesterday

 

Dalto is scared shi^less of our D, He watched us slam McCoy from the stains last year.

 

The long 3rd down conversions made me mad.

 

Dalton had an open receiver to his right ALL DAY LONG! We did a great job applying pressure, but when we only rushed 3 guys there was always some one open on his right.

 

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]Dalton made the play to win the game. Ben did not.[/FONT]

 

I am very pleased with how our defense developed this year. At the start of the year I was significantly worried about our run defense. And, yes, even at the end of year it was still suspect to an uncomfortable degree, but I think it was improved. Cincy certainly couldn't run against us--in fact we had our best performance all year against the run versus Cincy.

All in all, I am very happy with our defense at season's end. I can't say the same for the offense, though.

 

I was amazed at their performace given the newbies in the secondary. 14 yards rushing, turnovers and six sacks yep thats the steel defense I know and love. It's too bad we didn't win because they could have kept us in the playoffs.

 

I think they could have carried us in the playoffs as well. Another good defensive year squandered.

That hasn't happened before has it? heh. I have such painful memories of the championship game against the Broncos in the nineties and the SB loss to the Cowboys (just to mention a couple). They were such good defensive teams. All the offenses had to do was avoid self-destructing...but self-destruct they did