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  2. A common thread: no playmakers on D/real reason...Marvin's D

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    Take a look at the 2004 and 2005 drafts. I'd rather not print the players b/c it's scary to look at. Bust after bust after bust after bust. the only one Marvin gets a pass on is Pollack. The rest are or were worthless.

    Landon Johnson has been a top tackler all three years since he arrived. I would not consider him a bust.

    The biggest mystery for this team is why it seems to do OK on 1st and second down, and is able to force teams into third and long with great frequency, and almost routinely gives up big plays on third down. With cornerbacks who have been all pros in the past, talking Deltha O'Neal and Tory James, and a good rookie in jj, with a superbowl MVP in DJ and an upand coming probowler in Madieu, and with Justin Smimth and Robert Geathers supposedly enjoying good years with rushing the quarterback, how in the hell is this happening? Does anyone have an explanation?

    On the offensive side of the ball, completing 1/10 first downs won't get it done anywhere. But I guess we can explain that with the shaky offensive line and Carson throwing high due to his readjusted mechanics.

  4. After Thoughts Bengals vs Browns?

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    A few observations:

    KC and Denver are 6-6 in the 4th at Denver and Larry Johnson again has 100 yards. Guess that patchwork KC line can block well enough against SOME teams....

    Other posts were saying the Bengals were allowing only 13 some points per game and very few big plays (except for the 75 yarder today, eerily similar to the Frisman Jackson play against Odell last year). We had almost identical stats through 4 games last year until Madieu went down. Clearly if the offense is at full strength we have what it takes to win a shootout against the Steelers this year, but that's a big if currently. I do feel worlds more confident against the run, however, with DJ out they could break some big plays late in the game that could make the difference, if we don't have sufficient cushion.

    Hopefully Jacksonville will do some whaling against their O and D lines and bang them up some for us, with a short week to recover.

    Make that 126 yards for LJ and Duane Huard is 17/21. Either Denver really sucks and we're actually lucky we're playing them this year (I was really dreading going into Denver late in the year) or we were lucky we played KC early.

  14. Could this be the best time for Carson's bad game?

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    If you go to MSNBC sports and read, "How to beat the Colts", they say you can take away JAmes, or you can take away the receivers, but you can't do both. I'd say this is the first time the Bengals have really gotten the "take away the receivers" approach. Don't forget the Colts had a very shaky game against these same Browns earlier in the year. This Frye is senstational: watch out next year!

    I do think sometimes the offense has this "attack" mode too much on the brain. Sometimes you just need to run time off the clock....

  24. New team after the bye week?

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    I don't know if anyone has accounted for the fact the Bengals had the latest bye of any team in the NFL. This was counted as an advantage for the Colts game, and it may have been, but I think the Steelers had a big advantage in getting a bye before the Bengals did, vis a vis the previous Bengals-Steelers game. Has anyone noticed that the offensive line play is lightyears better since the bye? Defensive struggles aside, it really looks as if the Bengals are hitting their stride now and may be a huge change from the previous game with Pitt. Of course we'll have to see.

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