{"id":110538,"date":"2025-06-07T06:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T06:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/110538\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T06:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T06:30:16","slug":"have-the-bengals-actually-made-any-improvements-this-offseason-inside-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/110538\/","title":{"rendered":"Have the Bengals actually made any improvements this offseason? | Inside Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and Frank Schwab break down the reasons why they’re skeptical the Cincinnati Bengals will be a Super Bowl contender this season. Hear the full conversation on \u201cInside Coverage\u201d – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, YouTube<\/a> or wherever you listen.<\/a><\/p>\n

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A year ago, I was higher on the Bengals than I am right now because I don’t know that they’ve done, like bringing in a new defensive coordinators a step, but I still think that fixing the defense is a multi-year project, and I, I just, I feel like they won 9 games last year.<\/p>\n

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I thought they were going to be an 11 win team last year.<\/p>\n

I think they’re sort of, you know, I, I guess, I don’t know, I’m, I’m a little lower on the Bengals today than I was a year ago.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I, I, I’ll go with repeat.<\/p>\n

If you read what I wrote about the Bengals last offseason, I, I was, I, I will say I was in the camp of, it wasn’t just all Joe Burrow’s injury why this team didn’t make the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Like Jake Browning actually played pretty well for them.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of other things going on with the Bengals that I didn’t like.<\/p>\n

I kind of manifested itself last year.<\/p>\n

The defense did fall off and At a plus side for them, they lost a lot of close, weird games.<\/p>\n

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I mean, losing at a Patriots week one.<\/p>\n

I mean, it, it easily could have been a 10-11 win team in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

We’d be having a totally different discussion about the Bengals, but I just don’t know that they’re that Super Bowl contender.<\/p>\n

We all want them to be.<\/p>\n

Yes, they brought back T Higgins.<\/p>\n

They paid Jamar Chase.<\/p>\n

Great for them, but it’s basically the same team, like, where have they improved and the Trey Hendrickson thing.<\/p>\n

Until that gets resolved, uh, that’s a minus for them.<\/p>\n

Uh, look, maybe just new blood, uh, a defense coordinator, replacing Lou Arumo with Al Golden, maybe that makes a big, big difference for this defense.<\/p>\n

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Maybe just the bounces go their way this year when it didn’t last year, but I think you’re just asking way too much of Joe Burrow to carry this team.<\/p>\n

I don’t like the infrastructure.<\/p>\n

I don’t like, I I I love the passing game, which is a great spot to start in the NFL.<\/p>\n

I don’t really love anything else.<\/p>\n

I just, I, I, I don’t see them being the best team in this division by far, and I just don’t see how we get them to be like this top 5 team that we all thought they might be.<\/p>\n

So I, I, yeah, I, I, I guess I would just say repeat on the Bengals, but I was a little bit lower in the market last year on the Bengals anyway.<\/p>\n

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