What would you do to prepare for the Chiefs?

[combatbengal]

You know, there are a ton of people on here who complain about how the coaches coach, how the players perform. They give their recommendations on what should be done to fix issues, improve performance, fire coaches, bench certain players, etc. Well, here is your opportunity to shine. Our Def hasn't performed very well this year. Here is the situation; you're the DC for our beloved Bengals. It's your job to prepare for the Chiefs. What do you do? What's your game plan? How are you going to improve on our tackling, containment of the run, coverage of our DB's etc? Me, I’m a Soldier not a coach, and I do complain every now and then about this and that. I think I would go back to the basics on tackling drills, watch film to determine what d they have trouble with, create a game plan with 2-3 Coerces of action, and practice until every member of the D know’s his assignments.

[BengalByTheBay]

How dare you impugn the right of the fandom to randomly complain by challenging them to come up with something themselves!!! Okay, just kidding. I'm not an X's and O's guy. It does, however, seem to me that sometimes the answer to the question is the most obvious one. Here, I would install a few blitzes that we haven't done a lot of yet and blitz the hell out of Brodie Croyle. I would probably do so through the middle if at all possible, rather than the corners (and it sure would help if Brooks is redy to play in that effort) because the way I see KC getting a decent handle on the game is by establishing its run game.

So, broad brush this looks to me like a game to be aggressive defensively. Pressure Croyle even at the risk of exposing the secondary. That would be the poison I would pick for this game.

[Spor_tees]

It's actually a pretty simple game plan. The Chiefs have a premiere running back in LJ but are going to have to start a rookie QB. The Bengals defense is going to have to put 8 guys in the box and use several complex blitzes to try and confuse Croyle and force him to make mistakes. On offense they need to stick with what they are best at with about a 40-60 pass to run ratio and make the Chiefs defense adopt to the Bengals offense instead of the Bengals offense trying to adopt to the Chiefs defense. Special teams needs to just not allow any big plays and stay away from mistakes. As long as they can do all these things the Bengals should come home with a win.

[AMC]

Play 15 players at a time on defense. If that many are healthy.....

[mgilgris]

1) Hambuger/ Oklahoma drills till someone bleads

2) Practice exotic blitz packages to hide it from New QB

3) Game plan to make their new qb beat you

4) Get M. Williams snaps as corner without JJ

5) Re-explain Game plan to D-cordinator bc he didnt understand it first time

[combatbengal]

I like the blitz ideas. If we can stop Larry and keep our def off of the field, we'll win. Take their fans out of the game early too! We need to gang tackle all day long. One guys wraps the legs and one guy trys to strip the ball!!! Man we needs this win.

[BengalszoneBilly]

1) Hambuger/ Oklahoma drills till someone bleads

2) Practice exotic blitz packages to hide it from New QB

3) Game plan to make their new qb beat you

4) Get M. Williams snaps as corner without JJ

5) Re-explain Game plan to D-cordinator bc he didnt understand it first time

I like the blitz ideas. If we can stop Larry and keep our def off of the field, we'll win. Take their fans out of the game early too! We need to gang tackle all day long. One guys wraps the legs and one guy trys to strip the ball!!! Man we needs this win.

I like the re-explanation of the game plan to Bresnahan part. He seems forgetful of what works and what doesn't at times. Especially right after it works, which explains the shift in game planning after the Ravens game.

[Sportsdoc]

Have Tonya Harding and Shane Stant bust the ACL's of all the KC defense. Fire Chuck.

[redsbengalsbucks]

I like the ideas for the D.

Here is the most important problem with this team IMO, the O does not stay on the field long enough.

A ball control Offense keeps the suspect D off the field and eats clock. There is no reason that the Bengals have to go deep on every series, causing 3 and outs repeatedly.

My plan for the Offense would be to get Watson, De-DE and JJ (assuming Rudi is out) ready to rumble, and look back at Kenny Anderson's short passing attack, sprinkled with a couple bombs to the WR's. The O-line can dominate most teams in the running game, if the OC would just remember that the Bengals do have plays that dont require Palmer to throw the ball.

There have been many times in games that the dump-off TE or RB is wide open for 3-4 yards and Palmer does not even glance at him. Pushing the ball into tight coverage and trying to get big plays has cost this team consistently this season.

[HoosierCat]

What would you do to prepare for the Chiefs?

Pray.

[membengal]

Trot out something interesting, like a 5-2-4 alignment. The d-line is healthy, start five of them. Can't hurt.

[ShulaSteakhouse]

"Pray" was also my first thought.

Outside of that - just line up 11 guys on the line every play and blitz the entire defense on every down. Huard will probably still end up with a similar completion % any ways, and LJ will still get his 200 in, and they can still lose 45-34, and then Marvin can give us the usual "we need to mature and play as a team and get better" recording at this press conference, and not even show up if he doesn't want to.

[BengalByTheBay]

"Pray" was also my first thought.

Outside of that - just line up 11 guys on the line every play and blitz the entire defense on every down. Huard will probably still end up with a similar completion % any ways, and LJ will still get his 200 in, and they can still lose 45-34, and then Marvin can give us the usual "we need to mature and play as a team and get better" recording at this press conference, and not even show up if he doesn't want to.

...and Shula will finally be happy. Nah, probably not even then.

[mgilgris]

After the injury report I am not even sure God can help this cause.

[HairOnFire]

I like the ideas for the D.

Here is the most important problem with this team IMO, the O does not stay on the field long enough.

A ball control Offense keeps the suspect D off the field and eats clock. There is no reason that the Bengals have to go deep on every series, causing 3 and outs repeatedly.

Agreed. The idea of the style of offense not matching the style of defense isn't a new one, but it's gaining traction. Sadly, the Bengals best ball control RB is wearing street clothes, the offensive line is constantly dinged or being shuffled, TJ Housh is busy chewing on the coaches ears demanding more deep passes, and the QB keeps trying to take the opposing teams breath away.

[COB]

How would I gameplan for the Chiefs?

Simple: I call it the BengalZone Billy gameplan.

Direct all players to berate each other when things go wrong. Why have only one guy screaming at his teammates. Instead, everyone on the team spends halftime berating each teammate he thinks didn’t put in maximum effort. That way we’ll know they ALL really care about winning. Everyone screaming at each other at the first sign of adversity.

[Bengals1]

Pray.....a lot.

[The PatternMaster]

I like the ideas for the D.

Here is the most important problem with this team IMO, the O does not stay on the field long enough.

A ball control Offense keeps the suspect D off the field and eats clock. There is no reason that the Bengals have to go deep on every series, causing 3 and outs repeatedly.

Agreed. The idea of the style of offense not matching the style of defense isn't a new one, but it's gaining traction. Sadly, the Bengals best ball control RB is wearing street clothes, the offensive line is constantly dinged or being shuffled, TJ Housh is busy chewing on the coaches ears demanding more deep passes, and the QB keeps trying to take the opposing teams breath away.

So should Carson new nickname be "Top Gun" in honor of his desire to "take the opposing teams breath away"?

[ShulaSteakhouse]

"Pray" was also my first thought.

Outside of that - just line up 11 guys on the line every play and blitz the entire defense on every down. Huard will probably still end up with a similar completion % any ways, and LJ will still get his 200 in, and they can still lose 45-34, and then Marvin can give us the usual "we need to mature and play as a team and get better" recording at this press conference, and not even show up if he doesn't want to.

...and Shula will finally be happy. Nah, probably not even then.

Is there a reason I should be happy with the Bengals right now? Since 2005?

[BengalByTheBay]

"Pray" was also my first thought.

Outside of that - just line up 11 guys on the line every play and blitz the entire defense on every down. Huard will probably still end up with a similar completion % any ways, and LJ will still get his 200 in, and they can still lose 45-34, and then Marvin can give us the usual "we need to mature and play as a team and get better" recording at this press conference, and not even show up if he doesn't want to.

...and Shula will finally be happy. Nah, probably not even then.

Is there a reason I should be happy with the Bengals right now? Since 2005?

Sure, because you relish when bad things happen to them.