INGLEWOOD, Calif. — It took a half, however the Rams line of defense ultimately took over the sport and beat up the Bengals line and quarterback Joe Burrow.
Burrow was sacked solely as soon as within the first half however six occasions within the second half, tying the Tremendous Bowl file for many occasions sacked in a sport.
“It’s a very good entrance,” Bengals coach Zach Taylor stated. “It’s arguably the most effective entrance in all of soccer. We’re not the primary group that they pressured. I do know folks will in all probability make it that means, however they’ve bought large gamers that stepped up and made some huge performs and made it tough on us.”
Aaron Donald and Von Miller each completed the sport with two sacks every and smothered Burrow down the stretch. The ultimate play of the sport was Donald pressuring Burrow into an incomplete go on fourth-and-1.
“Each tape we’ve watched they hit each single quarterback on virtually each single snap,” Taylor stated. “It’s a problem. I assumed our guys did an incredible job managing that. As the sport will get on, they did a very good job creating that stress. So, after we had some detrimental performs on first-and-10, operating the ball on second-and-13 goes to be fairly powerful. Being extra environment friendly within the second half on first-and-10 would have helped us.”
Taylor didn't appear to assist his line out with play calls to sluggish the go rush down. As an alternative of calling some screens and attracts to reap the benefits of the aggressive go rush, Taylor saved Burrow in straight dropbacks and the Rams bought to him.
“There’s in all probability going to be issues we glance again on and we’ll have to research precisely what we might have accomplished in another way,” Taylor stated.
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It was not a shock that the Bengals offensive line struggled. That has been a theme of the playoffs. The Titans sacked Burrow 9 occasions within the divisional spherical. It appeared just like the Bengals may win the battle early however the Rams saved coming.
“I assumed within the first half of this sport the safety was large. Within the second half, we known as some passes and it bought tough,” Taylor stated. “We’ll need to see how all of them performed out. Everyone seems to be simply going to say it was the offensive line. We’ve bought to see precisely how that performed out. We don’t ever need our quarterback to get hit however that’s life within the NFL typically.”
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