Offense To Blame For Bengals’ Stunning Loss

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Published: September 14, 2009

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... Denver Broncos and the focus has been placed squarely on the Bengals’ secondary.

Never mind that the defense had limited Denver to just over 200 yards total up until that point or that Brandon Stokley and Brandon Marshal had combined for exactly four catches, all by Marshall. Every pundit, every fan and every “expert” has taken their shots at the team’s defensive backs.

Leon Hall should have knocked the ball down, they said. The safeties should have been playing back, they said. Somebody should have been shadowing Stokley, they said.

What’s lost in the conversation is not only is the criticism of the secondary flat-out wrong, but it also takes the blame away from the real culprit for the Bengals’ loss: The offense.

The play in question, for those who somehow missed it, involved Denver quarterback Kyle Orton forcing a pass into triple-coverage, Hall batting the ball away and Stokley somehow coming up with the ball and rac...

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