Film never lies, and it revealed the brutal truths about this defense.

While there was some progress on the offensive side of the ball,

we'll talk about all the film takeaways in today's episode from that Monday night disaster against the commanders.

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Guys, we're going to start on the defensive side of the ball because how could you start elsewhere as much as we would like to talk about some of the progress we may have seen from the offense in this game as both of the defenses were about as bad as NFL defenses can be.

One was meant to be a playoff team and one was meant to be a rebuilding team in year one with a

rookie quarterback and a new head coach.

And unfortunately, the one that's the farthest away from expectations at this point is the Cincinnati Bengals.

And Mike, I sat up here on this show after the game last night and was pointing fingers

of the defensive line.

After watching the tape, nothing really went right on this defense overall.

That's only a slight hyperbole.

But where would you say the foundational issue is right now for this defense?

Yeah, you probably didn't point enough fingers in the defensive line because the time to

throw for Jane Daniels is insane. The time it takes for them to get pressure, the time it took

for them to get pressure in this game, I don i don't i mean i think almost every throw felt like

it was either over two and a half seconds to throw which is about what you look at for you know

pressure being meaningful but if it wasn't it's not like he was pressured on throws there were under

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