The San Francisco 49ers should rely heavily on a four-man pass rush when they visit the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 2.
Granted, few quarterbacks like feeling pressure. And in an era when signal-callers are focusing more on getting the ball out quickly, the pass rush needs to be both dominant and confusing to throw quarterbacks off their game.
Especially the Bengals’ Andy Dalton.
Dalton hasn’t been the Pro Bowl-caliber player he was a number of years ago, of course. But under first-year head coach Zac Taylor, Dalton was responsible for tossing a league-high 35 completions for another league-high 418 yards in Week 1 against a tough Seattle Seahawks defense at CenturyLink Field — a venue where opposing quarterbacks never have much success.