While the Los Angeles Rams offense sputtered, the defensive unit kept the game within striking distance until the very end of hard-fought 19-16 loss on the road to the Cincinnati Bengals. Although it wasn’t a dominating effort, they bent but didn’t break and the takeaways from the defense were mostly positive.
Defensive Coordinator Raheem Morris showed a lot of different looks to make Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow uncomfortable. I counted eight different defensive formations, 37 in 4-2, nine in 4-1 and they changed that up by putting Ernest Jones on the line for a 5-0 on 10 plays.