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Stone now week to week with a soft tissue injury. Not supposed to be a long term issue but we’ll see.

Finally a slightly more optimistic review from Charlie here. https://charlieschalkboard.substack.com/p/takeaways-from-the-cincinnati-bengals

Dehner’s take. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6541884/2025/08/08/bengals-preseason-opener-eagles-burrow-chase/ tl;dr he thought Stewart looked promising, Fairchild looked good and if the plan was to replace Hudson with Fant, that got knocked off schedule last night. Also Chase Brown looked scary. On the flip side, Ivey and Isaiah Williams didn’t help their case last night. Patrick was the weak link on the line and Ford and Rivers both looked bad too. Past time to sign someone.

I’m very happy with what I saw out of the starting offense. We lost the opener last year in large part due to the O looking like it forgot how to play football. Yes they were up against mostly backups, but that was how you would want them to look against backups. They also ran the ball well, one of the two things I was looking for. O line held up. Yes, again, second team opposition, but we have seen them get rolled by backups before. Good start for them. Looked like Money Mac is back. That would be a welcome return. D was a horror show. The Eagles ran the ball at will and for big chunks. 2023 sixth round pick Tanner McKee looked like a different sixth round pick the Pats once made. There were occasionally good individual plays here and there but overall Philly moved the ball at will. Just awful. At least Al has lots of film to hit them with, and I hope he does, good and hard.

Roughing the snapper…can’t say I have ever seen that penalty before.

Nice return Burton.

Volson beat, Brooks blown up

Stewart TFL

D is a horror show. Fire Golden!

Brooks looked good running and in pass pro. He’ll earn time sooner rather than later imho.

Burrow out for year, broken ass.

Minor victory

That Jamarr Chase guy is pretty good.

Blind squirrel, acorn.