The 5 o’clock club is published from time to time during the season, and aims to provide a forum for reader-driven discussion at a time of day when there isn’t much NFL news being published. Feel free to introduce topics that interest you in the comments below.
I was looking at the All-22 film from last season’s Week 11 game against the Bengals. What I immediately noticed was that the team was running pretty vanilla defenses in the 1st quarter, rushing 4 and dropping 7 into coverage. The pass rush, which is what I was looking at, was pretty ineffective.