Welcome to Meet Then Enemy, r/bengals Q&A Thread for each match up. We figured the fans on each team’s sub more about their team, so why don’t we ask each other?
This week we’re inviting the fans over at r/ravens for some friendly Q&A. Ravens fans, help yourself to some flair on the sidebar!
No trash talk or flamebaiting allowed, this is a civil thread.
Aside from Lamar being healthy, what has made your offense do well this season? Is your running game good? How are Andrew’s and Flowers been in the passing game? Or has it mostly been Lamar putting the team on his back
Our run game as usual has been 1 of the NFL’s best. It’s elite. Most rush yds, 2d highest ypc, most rush TDs, 3rd highest rush 1d%. And that was before we used Keaton. That dude is scary fast, he’s like our version of Achane.
Zay has been 90% of the pass game. It’s become very predictable tbh. Just him on underneath routes all day. It works though, he separates & will juke you into the shadow realm, watch the clip of him sending Witherspoon flying in the Seattle game. We’ll try hitting Bateman on deep balls a couple times before giving up and going back to Zay all game. Bateman has been good though, he’s finally healthy and looking good. OBJ hasn’t contributed a ton in terms of yds & TDs but he’s a DPI machine, corners always grab him cuz they’re scared of him housing it and we get a ton of yds off those DPI. He’s older but he’s still fairly fast and he’s still got his hands. Agholor benefits from low expectations but has low key been our WR2, he’s been good here. Duv has been moved back to just a returner but that’s fine cuz he’s an elite returner. Andrews hasn’t been involved nearly as much as he should be, Monken needs to remember he has a top 3 TE.
Overall this team looks way more like a system. Lamar’s had to deal with an inconsistent OL but our pass concepts actually make sense now so it’s not just Lamar being Superman every week like it was the last 5 years. This is def the best Lamar’s ever been, he’s won plenty from the pocket and his passing is far better than it’s ever been and he’s still got the legs. Trayvon is right, if you give a QB some WR help it generally helps their passing lol.