HoosierCat

From the bookface group I follow:

Hubbard, Trent brown back at practice today.

https://www.local12.com/sports/bengals/bengals-place-two-players-injured-reserve-waive-defensive-tackle-cincinnati-knee-injury-chris-evans-dante-smith-devonnsha-maxwell

My non-player-specific takeaways would be: The defense was impressive in that the only starter out there today was Hill and the Bears ones couldn’t do squat. Tackling and coverage were mostly solid and there were some nice run-stuffs. Offensively, again it was all backups. Not much going in the run game. Passing game was sub par but notably I thought the backup oline held up well. Woodside took a couple ugly blindside sacks but I put those on him. Have to be aware pre snap and at least peek after the snap. Teams were fine I guess. McMoney hit from 54 so a good day.

Nice screen

Bears hype has been out of control since the draft. Up here in Chicagoland it’s so bad I’m starting to root for Green Bay.

Took the bears ones almost 30 minutes to get a td against our backups and scrubs. Chicago is going to disappoint a lot of bears fans this year.

Newton never looked back there

I’m stuck watching the bears broadcast and they are just going on on how awesome the Bears defense has been today LMAO

Jenkins gets to Williams!

Gotta see it to eat it, he wasn’t even looking.

Man wood side you gotta work on that awareness thing baby…

Nice toss by woodside on that 4th down pickup

Yeah they completely shut down the Bears’ ones. Just preseason, vanilla playcalling etc but still a nice showing.

Damn D2 getting the job done

Well that will wake woodside up.

I like this Woodside kid. Calm in the pocket, makes good throws.

Got a first down

D off to a good start

Way things have been going I dread the injury report after this game. Eric All to get a lot of work today. https://www.bengals.com/news/erick-all-jr-coming-off-the-blocks-vs-bears

ESPN has a really good piece by Ben Solak on the ongoing Aiyuk drama in SF that provides some sort of global context to the whole WRs-getting-paid storyline this year here: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40855012/brandon-aiyuk-contract-49ers-trade-wr-steelers-pay-contract-extension One point that caught my eye is right up front: I'm gonna go ahead and be the one to say it. Fine, Chase, you think you're the shit? Go whistle. We'll give your money to Tee and draft a guy.

Ouch. Vikes lose McCarthy for the year. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40860002/sources-vikings-rookie-qb-jj-mccarthy-miss-2024-season

Chase is actually making almost $5 million this season; Schefter conveniently left out his roster bonus in his now infamous rant. The bengals have also picked up the fifth year option, which is a fully guaranteed (almost) $22 million. So sure you can argue he’s underpaid atm but it’s not like he needs to busk on the street corner after games to make ends meet.

Hip actually but yeah, sucks. Browning out with a rib injury. Chase a no show at practice, possible contract situation escalation.

Hobs pimping Kirkland at OT: