Bengals Defensive Snaps Against The Pittsburgh Steelers

by Josh Kirkendall on Dec 7, 2011 10:30 AM EST

Before Sunday's game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, safety Taylor Mays participated in a combined eight defensive snaps in three games. Against the Steelers Mays participated in a season-high 16 snaps, as did Kelly Jennings who started in place of Nate Clements and participated in 60 defensive snaps. Jeromy Miles and Vincent Rey got some work as well on Sunday.

Defensive Line	Total	Run	P.Rush	Coverage
Geno Atkins	55	31	22	2
Domata Peko	48	31	17	0
Robert Geathers	46	25	19	2
Michael Johnson	39	20	18	1
Frostee Rucker	33	21	11	1
Jonathan Fanene	32	20	18	1
Pat Sims	DNP
Carlos Dunlap	DNP

Linebackers	Total	Run	P.Rush	Coverage
Thomas Howard	60	34	4	22
Manny Lawson	32	21	1	10
Rey Maualuga	32	21	1	10
Brandon Johnson	21	5	7	9
Dan Skuta	15	13	0	2
Vincent Rey	1	1	0	0

Secondary	Total	Run	P.Rush	Coverage
Reggie Nelson	62	34	3	25
Adam Jones	62	34	0	28
Kelly Jennings	60	33	0	27
Chris Crocker	48	24	2	22
Gibril Wilson	26	10	2	14
Taylor Mays	16	11	1	4
Jeromy Miles	4	2	0	2
Nate Clements	DNP

(snap count account to Pro Football Focus)

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Maualuga was taking some pretty bad angles and over-running plays (again) against the Steelers.

He was got to improve in this area. The Bengals need Rey (and the rest of the Defense) to step up on Sunday and make some plays – and I mean game-altering plays (forced fumble, INT, huge sacks). Just something to set a tone and knock the Texans in the mouth early.

We often blame the offense for sluggish starts and as the reason why we fall behind early, but the defense can’t let Houston methodically move the ball down field against us. Rey just needs to be a bit more under control (I.e. Not over-pursue) and become more of a playmaker.

Also, curious as to why PFF did not account for the defensive snap that Anthony Collins played last week against Pittsburgh.

by The_Black_Stripes on Dec 7, 2011 10:53 AM EST via mobile reply actions

CB Performance

I didn’t get to see the game but in the “highlights” I saw Adam Jones and Kelly Jennings looked to be getting burned through the game. Jones even looked hesitant to make tackles. Can anyone provide their assessment of the play at CB?

by Jim Spann on Dec 7, 2011 11:34 AM EST reply actions

Adam Jones

Personally, I thought Adam Jones played a pretty good game. (if you can say that about anyone on a team that gets beat that badly.) He had a few big hits early. I can’t remember him getting beat at any time. I thought he was probably the best player we had on D during this game.

by JADefense on Dec 7, 2011 12:03 PM EST up reply actions

I only watched the game once, but here's what I saw

Kelly Jennings got burned a couple of times and whiffed on a couple of tackles. I didn’t notice any particularly poor plays from Adam Jones. Crocker made another bonehead play where Mike Wallace drew a 50-yard pass interference on him on a ball that was probably not catchable. Reggie Nelson seemed to be whiffing on tackles and seemed to always be out of position. Overall, they really weren’t terrible in coverage, the big gains seemed to be when Ben broke out of the pocket and the receiver picked up a lot of YAC. They did a pathetic job tackling though and were often out of place.