The Cincinnati Bengals defense has obviously been a big part of the team's issues this season.

We dive into the details to try to find root causes and a path forward after disappointing start to the season for Luana Ramos unit.

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And Mike, we just spent about 35 minutes talking about the Cincinnati Bengals offense and

where it has flaws.

And that unit at least has actually performed for the Cincinnati Bengals this year.

On the other side, it's fair to say that the offense hasn't finished some games and

they've been in position to get some game winning plays at times. But the defense has been in its entirety

pretty close to an unmitigated disaster, not quite like totally unmitigated disaster,

but pretty much everyone who covers this team has taken a shot at playing the blame game for the

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