obvious to everyone that's watched the Cincinnati Bengals of the defense is a disaster,

but we watch the film in detail, and Mike Santagana joins me to break down exactly why

things are so miserable for the Bengals on defense.

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We continue our Trail of Mis misery as we investigate and discuss

the Cincinnati Bengals 2025 defense. If you missed yesterday's show, James and I talked about why it's

one of the worst defenses we have seen who's to blame what conversations should be happening at

Paycourt Stadium. But I'm Jake. Let's go join today by Mike's antagonive for our weekly film breakdown.

And Mike has dug into the film.

And we're going to talk about in detail, excruciating detail.

This is not going to necessarily be the most pleasant conversation about the Cincinnati Bengals as we dive into things like why the past rush isn't working from an individual perspective, from a stunt perspective,

and a blitz perspective, where there are issues in coverage, the multiple

issues around tackling, which include athleticism, angles, processing,

guys not understanding their jobs, not understanding how offenses are trying to

attack them. That's especially true of the defensive front, I would say. A lot going wrong with this

defense. A lot going right with the Bengals in the running game. We will get to that as the big

positive to take away from the Bengals game against the Jetsat had been a good run defense this year, legitimately a good run defense, and the Bengals made them look terrible. There are reasons for that, of course, which have to do specifically with the big criticism of the offense that we need to discuss today, which is that there's no answer, or there was no answer against the Jets anyway, when they went double-d and have double teams of both Jemar Chase and T. Higgins.

There's no wide receiver three in this offense right now with Mike Gassicki's injury and Andre Yosebosha's level of play this year.

Some of that also probably has to do with Joe Flacko's trust in timing with those down roster receiving options.

But that was glaringly obvious for the Bengals in the second half when they couldn't get it going on offense in the fourth quarter.

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