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the Locked On podcast network, Your team every Day. Well not Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals Podcast. I'm your host, Jake, Let's go. He's your host, James Rapine. Today, be are once again joined by Djogobarri as we continue our early off season topic series. Today talking about an opportunity perhaps to change the way the Bengals run things, especially on the offensive side of the ball, but there are opportunities
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I'm gonna refer to a tweet that I made during the wild Card Games, coach tweeting Max Descano. Max said, referring to the Browns Texans game at the time, both teams are getting into a ton of thirteen personnel for the purposes not running the ball, but throwing the ball, specifically two tight ends like Brevin Jordan for example, and I said tired best wide receiver trio in the league at the time, referring to the Cincinnati Bengals inspired best a tight
end trio in the league. A potential opportunity this season. With t Higgins and Tyler Boyce free agency, there for a significant personnel shift on offense. What are your high level thoughts hearing this for the first time. I think it's correct. Number one. I think that it's part of the ebbs and flows of offense versus defense in the NFL when we three wide receivers became a thing and very popularized, he struggled to get enough corners to get out there
and cover them. And then now everyone seems a heavy good nickel or slot corner or the good teams do at least, and taking him off the field is key. So you go with heavier tight ends or heavier offensive packages to get Mike Hilton off the field. I go directly Texans versus Browns. The Browns have three very good corners that they want to play man coverage with, and with a single high safety, get one of those corners off the field.
How put out, their extra tight ends go heavy, right, So if they want that corner to still stay on the field and play the run, he better be Mike Hilton playing the run. And even Mike Hilton's five to eight point eight on his best days, like it's still an issue. Even if he's a good run defender, So it's the ebbs and flows. Now you're going to see teams going heavy, and I think we saw it all year. We talked about this all season with teams that ran the ball,
reuse play action, use their tight ends, more condensed formations. They found ways to create explosive plays at a higher rate. And we're looking at the Bengals, Well, you have the three best receivers in the league. You should be able to do this at the same level that these other teams do. When you're more stagnant, when you're the same personnel grouping previous years ninety percent of the time this year, I think it was seventy eight percent.
They were eleven personnel but was injured. So when you are stagnant, though, it's easier to defend and it's easier to be more predictable. And I think that has plagued the Bengals a little bit. So yeah, I think we're leading into that they have an opportunity and to be different. Is that path tight end only? Do you see other ways to do that? We talked about running back on yesterday's episode, about having three different guys that
can do a little bit of everything versus mixing. Is this type of back and he's going to be on the field for these plays. Travion Williams is a pass block or Chase Brown is kind of our explosive guy that we throw screens to. Is it just tight end and if so, what should fans be looking for at tight end or what could the Bengals be looking for at tight end this offseason? No, I do think it's all the positions, even wide receiver, and we talked. We mentioned getting faster and having a
speed slot. I think having Charlie Jones run a four to three running clear out routes is much better than Tyler Boyd running a four to six running clear out routes. Right, you can do different things off of that, so running back as well. The committee approach having guys that can do more so you're not as predictable. Again, we want to limit how predictable you are
on offense. So if they get to the point where they have three different guys that can do different things, that helps the offensive line as well. Can you be a more physical run team up fright at the point of attack? Can you also be more athletic and do more things and get out on these screens, get out to the wide zone, I get to these reach blocks that you need to hit to seal off the edge. So yeah, it's all of these things that they've struggled with are areas where they have almost
neglected in the draft. You know, define the athletic offensive lineman, to find the correct running back to pair with Joe Mixon, and maybe now supplant Joe Mixon, to find a high level tight end talent tight end, and to get more speed on offense. All of these things are still needs, but now more of a need maybe in a sense city there's an opportunity as well with the changes that are inevitable. You have starting positions up on offense,
and we're going to talk about defense too. I don't think this is strictly on the offensive side of the ball, but I wonder how much of that personnel approach is a product of the guys that the Bengals prioritized drafting. Zach Taylor inherited a team with Tyler Boyd and nothing a wide receiver. They draft Joe Burrow and T Higgins that could be the core. But then Joe
Burrow gets hurt and you're picking at the top of the draft. Again, you have the opportunity to get a very special talent in Jamar Chase, and so you're like, Okay, Jamar Chase connection with Joe Burrow, really high level player. Well, I guess we're going to do that too. And now you've got three wide receivers and then you build your team around that while
you have those guys. But I wonder how much of it is we have those guys, so that's how we're going to go, versus that's what they want to do, really do, because we know, I think the last couple of years they wanted a tight end in the draft. They didn't want to tight end in the draft enough to spend an extra asset to move up and get one or to reach according to what they felt their draft board was
on a tight end. They didn't force it. But I wonder how much of it is a product of the kind of natural way the team came together versus a preference from this coaching stuff. Yeah, because you have to do both, right. If you if you somehow found a fourth receiver that you drafted in the sixth round, let's say let's say Yoshi was Puka Nakua as a rookie right, well, and now I've got to try and have more four ride receiver sets because he's that good that I let's get this guy in
the field. So that is coaching. You use your best players to their strengths and make your team as good as possible. They've done that. They've done exactly that on offense given what they've had, given the dearth of tailent. I mean, they made Cijozama into a highly paid tight end. Hayden Nurse got the same thing a year later. They have found a way to say, hey, this is our personnel grouping, this is how will be best suited on offense. Let's do it. Let's play to that strength.
I and this goes to the conversation of tight end because I think people say, well, they won't use the tight end, or they don't use the tight end. They threw one hundred and fifteen balls to the worst tight end group in the league heading into last year, and they may still be. I mean, there's no one on the roster right now, so technically they are the worst tight end group in league. But if that was a Sam Laporter or whoever, if they would have drafted, if it is Brock Bauers
at eighteen. You don't think they'll use him. You don't think quickly he would be the number three option. You don't think in a year when they lose Tea he would be the number two option and the whole offense will look completely different and it'd be combo routes between Brock Bauers and Jamar Chase. It would or else you're an inept coaching staff, and I don't think they are. I think they use their players to the correct way they should be used.
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All right, Joe, let's stick with the coaching element here because I think it's a big one, and I think that there are people that just assume that this is how it's going to be, and Joe Burrow is going to run empty and Zach Taylor is going to want three receivers on the field all the time and not value tight end because they haven't drafted one since Drew Sample. And that's it. It doesn't feel like you feel that way. Why well, number one, they did draft Drew Sample in round two,
right, nobody told them to do that. They did that had their own That was their own valuation of why they've never drafted a tight end early. See right, that's probably what it is. And then by the way, Drew Sample is a good player, just throwing that out there. Not a second round player, but he ends he's a good player. He's fun. That's part of a larger and different discussion of once you get past that second round pick, that first four year contract, All right, what is he
and what does he do? Well, let's stop trying to make him do other things and let him be who Drew sanm Piloe's was and he was this year and it was his best year. So again that's the team using players to their strengths. Right, talk about Tanner Hudson. Hudson only lined up in line twenty six percent of the time. Last year he was in the slot, he was out wide. They used him like a big slot receiver, again to his strengths. So I do believe if the right players are
in there, they would adjust, adjust a little bit. I do think this really caught flame, though, this whole idea when Browning got in inserted right, and that first week it was here is Browning into the Joe Burrow offense, and then for the next month it was, oh, this is different, Oh here's some screens finally, Like I've clearly called them plenty of times the worst screen team in the league for the last three years, and all of a sudden, they're getting explosives at a crazy rate, and they're
throwing screens at a high rate, and then they're a lot more play action under center, all of these things that people clamored for the whole time with Joe Burrow, because I mean, that's how they've had a highly successful offense with Joe Burrow, running from empty and doing what they do with Burrow with three wide receiver sets. But then when it doesn't work for a couple of weeks, we demand change. But there is some middle ground there they do
need to merge both of these. Get Burrow a little more easier throws and targets and explosive plays where he doesn't have to carry the team and you can just dump it off the chase Brown and he rips it for fifty yards. That would be great and benefit everyone, And I think they did see a
little bit of light at the end of the tunnel. I think Joe Burrow even said it and his postseason press conference saying like we did find a way to get some explosives, and he mentioned that and how how beneficial it was his offense. I think he sees it as well. You mentioned early in the season you were on the more critical side of the Bengals coaching staff for
not being more prepared for the limited Joe Burrow. That being said, I personally fully believe that the offense we saw with Jake Browning would have been very similar, with the key difference being less empty, because brown and clearly not comfortable and empty the way Joe Burrows comfortable and empty. Would have been the offense they would have run with Joe Burrow if not for that injury this year,
they only got a few healthy games with him. You go back and look at those healthy games, it's kind of hard to tell what it would have been for the remainder of the season because they are such a week to week offense. I mean, you even saw that with Browning. You saw them make changes in the kinds of running plays they called, the kinds of screens they called, the kind of passing concepts they called. They tried to
take advantage of weaknesses that they think will work. That's why some weeks they've run a lot of early toss plays and they don't work. So do you think that? Do you buy? I guess when Zach Taylor says how the offense we ran with Jake wasn't two different so different than the offense we ran
with Joe, that's been overstated. Do you believe it? I actually went back and looked at some of my episodes and tweets from August down to camp, and that's what our expectations were, right, and that you're not wrong. And I was like, yeah, look at all the play action they're
doing with Burrow. Now, Burrow was hurt then, but I went and looked at even before he was hurt, you know, and then mini camps and stuff, and like every clip we got was play action or some type of RPO him under center much more, and it was like, yeah, I do think this was it. And clearly, when he had the calf issue, they could not have him drop back from under center. It just
was not an option. They went ninety nine point nine percent of their snaps from shotgun for that very reason, which means your playbook is now cut in half or you're trying to piece parts of it together to get it to work, you know, try and get the same concept we would have run from under center play action, but now we're going to do it from shotgun and see if it works. And you know, they had mixed results overall, so I do believe they were on the right track this. This has never
been a team. I get some of these comments on Twitter a lot, and you guys probably do as well, from fans that say, well, Zach stubborn and he won't do this and he won't change this, and it seems the exact opposite from my vantage point. I think they do whatever works, and they don't care where they get the idea from. They don't care where they get the concept from. They steal stuff from around the league all the time. And they try and implement it as best as they possibly can.
I don't know. I feel like with a healthy Burrow, the conversation for the offense is completely different from a coaching standpoint. But on the other hand, Brian Kalen's getting all these interviews again this year, and it's probably because what they did with Jake Browning. Yeah, I think that's part of it for sure. You go four and three down the stretch, you go to Jacksonville, and you win, and you stay in the hunt. You
stay in the playoff race through week seventeen. Let's discuss the defense a little bit though, because Leuen or Rumo, I think a lot of people thought he would coming into the year this would be his last year and he would get a head coaching job. As of the time we record this, it doesn't sound like any teams are interested in interviewing him. Obviously, the defense
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this year that they didn't want to have. They they didn't expect and it's because and we undersold probably the loss of the two veterans that safe probably well right, well, because I was last episode in this episode just now, I'm talking about the opportunity to get better, the opportunity to be different, and the optunity to be more versatile. They had all of that with the new safeties, didn't mean they were better, and in fact, they probably
limited them a little bit more than they would like to be. You remember the good Anta Remo defenses in the playoff run defenses were extremely multiple and variable, and they would show one thing pre snap and they you watch it on tape, it'd be beautiful the way they'd rotate into another coverage and it just Mahomes would just crap his pants looking at it like, oh no, and now I've got to hold the ball and run around, and they couldn't do
that. They're very the data that I look at that shows how often they change coveragees pre snap posting that this year dropped completely tanked, and it's because I think of the safeties that typically is a complete reflection of how well the safeties can pull that off, hold their water a little bit longer and not show it pre snap, and then rotate rate at the right timing, communicate
it all between everyone. And instead what we saw was a vanilla defense that had two blitz because they weren't confident in getting pressure with just one guy and Trey Hendrickson, and then a lot of explosive plays on the back half, largely from the safeties, but I do think the corners had their hand involved
in that too. We had some up and down play from chadov Luzia and then DJ Turner down the stretch, but largely I think the biggest change will be getting back to what they did do when these guys become a little bit more seasons on the seasons on the back half, and then adding talent to the defensive tackle room I think is desperately needed. I think it aired out
the linebackers in a lot of ways. I think it made them force them to bring a safety into the box a little bit more because they were so weak against the run, and that happens as it starts with your nose tackle and defensive tackle rooms. And because it was such an issue. I mean, every time there was a big run, you could almost like look and squint your screen and be like, yeah, that's sixty eight and that's two poems, Zach Carter. They're out there again, like how does this happen?
And then you know until you get the starters back out there, b J Hill and DJ Reader and doing their thing. But yeah, I think it's personnel first, and it's experienced second. From a personnel change perspective or personal philosophy shifts, I don't I agree with you that. I don't think the back half of the defense is what I'm thinking about there. And I
agree that they want to get back to what they're doing. And you would hope that seasoning experience seeing things from the NFL speed, the NFL level for Dax Hill and for Jordan Battle leads to goods center justic communication going forward. But DJ Reader, Josh Tupo, free agency, the need to rebuild that defensive tackle room. I wonder if they and I don't expect changes here, but there is with that big shift with DJ Reader, an opportunity to look
at what they've got with some youth besides Trey Hendrickson. With the changes, we're expecting a defensive tackle to kind of shift their approach to trench play. Not necessarily something I anticipate, but do you think that there's something they would
be interested in there? I think there there's both sides, So I think they would love to get another big nose tackle that can hold his own in two gap and maybe take on two blockers and keep these linebackers free, because I like Jermaine Pratt looks so much better when he's not touched by a center
or guard climbing up to the second level like it's night and day. They want to look at previous years when he graded poorly on PFF, and I look at the defensive tackles how they graded those years, and I'm like, yeah, well that kind of coincides with each other, and I think it could happen again. So I think they would like a big nose tackle, But the big change would be getting back to an Ogunjobe penetrating style defensive tackle that they can mix in there, and I think that's a huge thing.
Number one in terms of personnel and type of players they draft is big there because they really haven't drafted that guy in so long. I mean, the Marcus Hardison and the Zach Carter defensive ends in college that you're going to kick inside and add fifteen pounds to just has not worked. So I think they need to spread different waters there and swim in different waters and figure out if that's the key to their issues. Yeah, I think defensive tackle is going.
It almost has to be a mix of veteran free agents along with and it could be multiple along with drafting, and you leave that eighteenth eighteenth pick open to it. But at the same time, you might not be able to get one in the first couple of rounds. We know how the draft can go, and so you need to be able to add to it in free agency. Do you want to dive into positional spending, Jake? That
was on the outlook, so up to you. What do you think, Jake, Yeah, let's spend a couple of minutes there just to talk about where that suggests the Bengals are going to spend money. The Bengals are the only team in the NFL in twenty twenty four to have a position group that there are zero dollars allocated to the only team in the NFL to have any position group. And there's five position groups that over the cap, ten position
groups that over the cap. Does the Bengals have zero dollars allocated to tight end? Obviously they're going to spend money there. But Joe, when you look at the positional spending trends, which is something I know you like to do, what Job said at you is an opportunity to either change the way they're spending money to spend more money. Well, one of the big takeaways
from the early offseason view of positional spending. Yeah, and that's how we got to the point last year where it was, hey, they'll probably draft a defensive end highly because they have a lot of money tied up there. But they need to get better. And when you have those two as a combination, well, the only way to really get better and without adding a lot of money there is to spend a draft pick. So if you look at that this year and heading into twenty twenty four, so some of these
numbers will change. Their twenty sixth in total offensive spending for twenty twenty four, there seventeenth in total defensive spending. Makes you feel like they could spend on the offensive side a little bit. But the tight end room, like you said, thirty second, they could spend a lot there and they probably should and have to just to get it above water. But the wide receiver position before tagging Tea is twenty fifth. If they tag them, it should
put them around eleventh. So they're still not crazy high in spending, and this is before other teams starts spending there. They could probably get another veteran at that spot, and maybe that's a we talked about this is who's the fourth receiver? Is it Trenton Irwin? Is it Yoshi? Is it?
Who's it going to be? Next season? They could go get a Josh Reynolds or something like that and dangle Tea out there and see what happens if you can get a trade before the before free agency, because let's think about it, if you or before the draft, if you go out and don't spend on a wide receiver and then you find a trade partner for Tea, well, now you're almost forced to have to spend a premium pickout receiver, even though I would expect it. You wouldn't want to be forced to do
that. It's one of the things we try to avoid doing. But looking at the defensive end room sixth highest paid defensive endroom going into twenty twenty four, they just are banking on the development of Miles Murphy and maybe this year we can get Joseph Osaie off the milk carton and he can help out and do something that would be awesome. And critically it bounce back from Sam Hubbard because he's a big chunk of that edge spending and he was dealing with injury
this year and that showed up a little bit. He's another example you use where cash versus cap. The cap number is higher than the cash, So for like the Bengals, I don't think they'll even consider cutting him. I know some people have thought about it, but it's I've thought about it, yeah, right, it's Cincinnati's owns Sam Hubbard, and they use them for
a lot of other promotional and fun things in the area. I just don't I don't think they'd consider it when the cash they're paying is just eight and some change rather than the ten and a half cap hits. But at corner they're twenty first. At safety their twenty second. I think they could add a veteran if we're talking a guy that's a Nick Scott type signing three to five million dollars at each position. I could see that in a lot of
ways. They can't really spend picks there because they spent so many picks at both positions. They could use a little bit more veteran talent and money at
those spots. Yeah, I think that's that's the dilemma of do you add a safety or do you try to get another DT right or another put that money towards because I'm all about I think about defensive tackle similar to tight end, where it's like man, there's just there's nothing, and I know you have at least BJ Hill, but you also play multiple all the time, and so I think it's it's interesting, and they have a cap space and they do have certainly the assets and resources to go after it. I think
this is going to be an eventful offseason. We can all agree there, I think no doubt, And part of what we'll guide the off season conversation is reevaluating self scouting, what the Bengals have, how these young guys played are their cornerstones besides Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase on this roster for the next five years. We'll get into those topics with Joe as we update our evaluations and tomorrow's episode. Until then, thanks for listening to this episode of the
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