{"id":30955,"date":"2025-08-20T23:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=30955"},"modified":"2025-08-20T23:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:00:18","slug":"logan-wilson-dives-into-difficulty-of-judging-preseason-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=30955","title":{"rendered":"Logan Wilson Dives Into Difficulty of Judging Preseason Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CINCINNATI \u2014\u00a0<\/strong>Logan Wilson and the first-string Bengals defense have been gashed multiple times through two preseason games, but it’s not causing panic for that unit.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati is running about “10-15%” of what they would\u00a0normally\u00a0run in a regular-season game. They lost in Week 1 of the preseason 31-27 to Philadelphia, but played much better defense across the whole game on Monday night in a 31-14 win over Washington.<\/p>\n

“Every one of our practices is more back and forth than what those games have been,” Wilson said to the media on Wednesday. “And so it’s hard. We talk about it like I said, we’re only running, like, I don’t know, 10-15% of what we’re, what we’re truly running.\u00a0And so it’s like you\u00a0just\u00a0want to work on your technique and your fundamentals and try to get tackling and turnovers and stuff like that in the game.<\/p>\n

“It is, it is what it is. It’s just kind of how the preseason has gone for us. It’s not what we want to see.\u00a0But like,\u00a0they\u00a0had some plays that were\u00a0schemed up\u00a0for\u00a0what we were in.\u00a0And if you don’t practice against that stuff, you’re not necessarily always ready for it, you know what I mean.\u00a0And so it was good that we got those reps, because we can learn from those plays\u00a0for sure.\u00a0And\u00a0so\u00a0that’s all we’re going to do, is\u00a0continue to learn.\u00a0Continue to learn from it.”<\/p>\n

Cincinnati has plenty of learning film on tap as they gel further on defense.<\/p>\n

All in all, that unit can only gel so much, though, with the talent it’s bringing to the table. Any high-ceiling outcome for this defense involves Trey Hendrickson on the field, and that hasn’t happened yet due to his contract issue.<\/p>\n

Wilson should be far from an issue this fall as arguably the team’s second-best defensive player. He is coming off a strong 72.4 Pro Football Focus grade last season, including a 90 overall mark against the run.<\/p>\n

Check out his full comments from CLNS Media’s Mike Petraglia below:<\/p>\n

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Logan Wilson explains why it\u2019s hard to judge defense on preseason games pic.twitter.com\/WwVI8TMq78<\/a><\/p>\n

— Mike Petraglia (@Trags) August 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n