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Now, obviously, defense just has to be flat-out better. There\'s really no way of putting that," Washington defensive tackle Jon Allen said during his weekly appearance Tuesday with 106.7 The Fan\'s The Sports Junkies, which is presented exclusively by our partners at\xa0<a href="https://mstreetbank.com/">MainStreet Bank</a>\xa0— Cheer Local. Bank Local. Put Our Team in Your Office. Member FDIC. 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"The offense's that we're going against\xa0are executing better than we're executing defense. And that's just the short answer. I could come up here and give you a thousand excuses as to why, but at the end of the day, that doesn't mean anything and doesn't change anything. 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In fact, Cinci had touchdowns on all three possessions in the second half.", '_version': 2, 'componentVariation': 'paragraph'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm1glw1uf003x3b7kiuqajk32@published'}, {'data': {'text': ""That's just not a good recipe\xa0to win football games," Allen said about the Bengals execution. "Thank goodness our offense came to play, and they played one of the best games I've seen. They were the saving\xa0grace for the day, for sure.", '_version': 2, 'componentVariation': 'paragraph'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm1glzllh00453b7k188us6kk@published'}, {'data': {'text': '"But as a defense we gotta be better."', '_version': 2, 'componentVariation': 'paragraph'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm1gm2zp7004d3b7kgkfun1sn@published'}, {'data': {'text': "Allen said the issue is that the defense isn't having 11 guys executing at the same time with enough consistency.", '_version': 2, 'componentVariation': 'paragraph'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm1gm3gu8004k3b7k7q8krioq@published'}, {'data': {'text': ""You can't have 10 guys execute and one guy have a mental lapse here. Or one guy have a mental lapse there," he told the Junks. "Everyone is doing it right, a d-tackle jumps out of his gap, it doesn't matter what everybody else did that's the weak link and teams are finding it.", '_version': 2, 'componentVariation': 'paragraph'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm1gm8giy004s3b7kny8biovm@published'}, {'data': {'text': ""It's just getting all guys to be on the same page and execute at the same time. 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