re: Cincinnati pass defense

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“Trae’s been doing a really good job just of competing in practice. We’ve had a good amount of good-on-good reps, and the contested catches, him competing really shows. Ja’Corey is also doing a great job of really getting technical with his routes. He’s had some experience playing, obviously, in big moments, big games, so I think he’s been more and more comfortable on the field and it shows.

“Bake has been doing a great job competing as well, been running really good routes. Again, competing. We’ve had some great opportunities to get some good-on-good snaps with this kind of odd schedule for a game. So you can tell Bake’s really competed, made a lot of plays. And Agiye has stepped up as well, ran some good deep routes, is getting more comfortable with some of those routes that take a little bit more timing and more reps.

“I think all those guys are stepping up, and I have all the confidence in the world in them.”

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