Stripes

The defensive standard has been so terrible that I actually found that opening drive encouraging. And they allowed a TD.

Carter was the 2022 draft, but yes at least they got CTB (I think? I hope?) and Dax (I think? I hope?) and Volson (I think? I hope?) that time around.

Kind of annoying that Carman and Carter were both “wtf” picks in the 2nd/3rd rounds and ended up being even worse than “wtf” players. Get your shit together, Duke.

While the Bengals can hardly afford to lose any interior defensive linemen... Zach Carter was quite possibly a bottom ten NFL player. He just added absolutely nothing at any point.

Will be managed by Terry Francona. That's a bigger hire than anyone expected. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/41597289/cincinnati-reds-hiring-terry-francona-manager-sources-say

I've been bothered all along that a third round rookie is being treated as the savior at DT when we've never even seen him play professional football. Hopefully he isn't another Shelvin.

They pretty much benched CTB against Carolina, so I have to believe they'll be willing to go to Battle too if Stone/Bell are continuously falling short. Something has to change.

I think this game is winnable as long as the offensive line continues to pass protect. The defense is ass, but I also think Baltimore's offense is less "juggernaut" than it has appeared the last couple of weeks. They're at the high end of a wide degree of offensive variance, and division games break all the rules anyway. I am more concerned about Lamar Jackson running for 150 than Derrick Henry.

Speaking of punters, Robbins was just activated from IR. If they do the idiotic thing, I swear to god.

https://www.bengals.com/video/joe-burrow-andrei-iosivas-highlights-29-yard-dime-bengals-panthers-week-4-2024 Submitting this as a candidate for Joe Burrow's best throws ever.

I'm going to optimistically say the Ravens are blowing their wads tonight and won't have this much juice next week.

Let's finish the evening off properly. GO BILLS

Watson didn't even throw the ball on 4th down with the game on the line. Way to prove me wrong, Raiders.

I think Mims, Jenkins, and All were all encouraging today. Jenkins especially being anything decent would be such a boost.

If anyone's looking for consolation from last week: Jayden Daniels is 8/8 for 71 yards right now. Maybe he's just good.

The Raiders took care of Baltimore, but they aren't looking like they'll do it again with Cleveland.

Hard to be comfortable with this defense against Lamar Jackson. But there's always the shootout.

Thank you McPherson.

The Steelers forgot to provide a sacrifice to the blood demon this week.

Don't run out of bounds. Don't forget the play clock exists. This team plays stupid.

Zach Carter did something. First time for everything.

This team just plays stupid.

Net 62 yard punt inside the 20. That'll work.

Wait. Why did the Panthers do whatever that was? They snapped the ball really far to some guy I've never seen before, then he kicked it? What was that?

My shitty feed can't decide if it wants to show me the game as it is currently in progress or jump back at random to the first quarter.