The Cincinnati Bengals run defense has been a sour point for the team most of the season and it’s something defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo continues to target into December.
Ahead of next Monday’s game against the Jaguars, Anarumo had that very thing as the focus of a late-week practice.
“We continue to practice the issues that keep popping up. We’re doing more run fits than we’ve ever done,” Anarumo said, according to Geoff Hobson of Bengals.com. “We just did 20. We’ll do 30 a day. That’s outside of practice and my walkthrough and then within another practice period. And then in practice, we’ll do another set of it.”
Anarumo has plenty of reason to get his guys after this, considering their putrid leaguewide ranks. Just last week, the Bengals coughed up 153 rushing yards and a score on a 4.6 per-carry average to Pittsburgh in a 16-10 loss, which featured a handful of head-scratching runs that looked dead before being broken off for bigger gains.
Next up, the defense has to counter a Jaguars team that will be looking to exploit the very same issue.
