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I wish I could play NFL QB.

Do not let Andy Dalton have his first read. If he can fire quickly he is capable of putting up a big day. If you force him into progressions he'll struggle. So maybe shelve the soft zone coverage for a week? I dunno really what a depressing start to the season. Hopefully they can roll up some yards and points at least, but it just seems like this week will be a baffling offensive performance. Pass rush win rate was low vs. Commandos. So that points to talent. However, they only blitzed 11 times so that points to bad decisions. It seemed to me they played two deep quite a bit and zone a whole bunch. Are the safeties not communicating, again? What's the excuse the chunk plays this year?

Trent Brown out for season. Daniels was impressive no doubt. This defensive performance was dead on last year's Houston Texans CJ Stroud performance. Just depressing. Also, Lou has gotten beat by a OT catching a TD two weeks in a row. Has to be some sort of new low.

Mims gave up a sack, looked bad on that play. False start on a PAT. But I thought he was impressive in the later stages of the game especially when they knew Burrow would be dropping back and holding the ball looking deep. I don't think he gave up much pressure in later part of the game.

1. Rebirth of the Riverfront project was completely geared to attract people outside the county to the riverfront. It does. Either you haven't been down there or are closed minded. Any suggestion the revenue generated by the Riverfront options is just Hamilton county trading pennies is false. 2. I'm pretty sure the workers,contractors etc were happy with the approval of the project. I'm guessing the bids on the work were competitive. So the point about labor just sitting around is laughable. But the over all point is Wages were paid. Materials shipped and bought. The tax revenue generated and collected by whatever municipality is never matched against the project expenses in those studies. Its not the NFL responsibility to handle the procurement SO IF Hamilton county didn't use local then that's on them. Although, I'm pretty sure there was an agreement to use local resources for X percent of the project. No one can honestly look at Cincinnati riverfront prior to 1995 vs. today and honestly conclude the benefits of these projects are overblown. Crazy talk. Its generated parks, housing all sorts of year round use. Taylor Swift alone brought $92m outside spending.

See what Jayden Daniels does in the NFL. He'll probably suck from here on out, but that last TD throw was a fucking dart. The defense is soft. I would have never guessed Washington would almost score a TD on every drive. The last drive was depressing. The crowd got them 2 false starts and the QB got 2 conversions and then a killer TD throw. You got to give that QB credit, but come on Lou get out of the fucking zone or whatever you are trying to do. The last 3rd conversion pass completion to the TE was freaking obvious before the snap. Knew exactly he would sit down behind the marker in front of the defenders.

Gave mine up in 2017. 1996-2017. All I can say is don't rush into the decision. The results suck right now, but the atmosphere is great. The end result sucked. But the atmosphere is better than anything I've experienced in the NFL. It is getting close to what you would experience in a SEC stadium (close not exact). See if you can resell, recover some of the cost. Re-charge your jungle meter and re-think the decision in the off season. I really wish I would have never given mine up and probably will buy them again at some point.

So all of the money spent on the Riverfront comes from Hamilton county? I mean come that as ignorant as saying there was material just lying around to throw up a $300m dollar stadium and workers just sitting around. I can assure you hourly labor does not work the same amount of hours at the same rate year after year.

These studies take the cost of the stadium or operation from gov entity POV. They look at it from a traditional P/L stand point from the gov entity which is highly flawed. This is highly flawed logic and it isn't hard to disprove. The impact of the construction wages paid and materials purchased covered the initial cost of the stadium project. Wealth is neither created or destroyed. The transfer and how its accounted for depends on the political view of the study. Unless you believe the Brown family was hanging dry wall, pouring concrete etc. Thousands of people were paid wages and taxed on those wages. The materials were produced etc. Hamilton county would not have accounted for any of this revenue under the stadium authority. It is also the opinion of the Hamilton County auditor that the county used sales tax funds to fund additional infrastructure projects. Its never cut and dry. But if you just look at the riverfront today vs. then its obvious there's a huge economic impact.

Just to beat that dead horse at least once more. The PI no call in the endzone Chiefs vs. Falcons sunday night football stings badly a week after losing on a shit call. Chiefs defender back to the ball, bear hug around the WR before the ball arrived. No call. Even Collinsworth had to call it out. Of course critical part of the game.

About 3pm eastern time, what is known as the "the banks" will be drenched in orange. Bars will be 5 deep. Thousands will stand outside the Reds stadium and watch MNF on their video. Thousand more will watch inside one of a few bars. Then a few thousand more will watch from a tailgate of some sort. Once you see it, then you'll begin to understand why. If you visited the Cincinnati riverfront prior to 1995 you'll appreciate the difference. Then if you ever go to any SEC town for a football weekend take whatever Cincinnati is today and times it by 100. That's why the governmental entities support public financed stadiums across this country. Now did Cincinnati do it the best way? Maybe, maybe not. I think Indy has had the best plan, I've seen for a football stadium because allowed them also attract several top youth sports tournaments because they linked it to a convention center. They've proven to attract NCAA events etc.

I don't know about that. Government spending is rarely effective. The results of these projects and judging of the effectiveness is highly influence by a person's political view. Case in point. The NFLPA gives an annual hit list that puts ownership in the cross hairs. That gets a lot of play. The NFLPA also contends there's hundreds of millions of economic benefits to a city that hosts their player's games. So now they aren't accurate? People don't want to admit it but its all about your POV that determines IF these projects are worth it. Its hard for me to believe the 1995 Cincinnati riverfront would become what you'll see today without the public money spent on sports stadiums.

The loss to the Pats is easy to understand. Week 1 NFL. Pats slowed Burrow or Burrow allowed himself to be slowed. Pending how you want to look at it. When they finally got in gear they fumbled twice and had a couple drops. Week 2, Bengals were much more successful in finding underneath stuff then exploiting bigger plays when coverage breaks down. KC ran very well but because the Bengals were scoring never truly relented into just running. If they come out slow on offense vs. Washington they'll get beat. That QB is plenty good enough to win a grind it out game at this stage in his career.

If they got a cap credit then they must have collected a claim, I guess. Sweet. I wonder who wrote the Deshaun Watson policy?

A quick efficient offensive start is always necessary but ultimately important vs. running Qbs/running teams considering our run defense. Just reviewing the all-22 break downs on the first 2 weeks. 1. Bengals pass pro overall has been solid, but there are some let downs on critical downs (mostly 3rd downs) that need to be cleaned up. 2. Related to the above 3rd conversion and red zone touchdowns must improve. 3. It'd be nice to get more chunk plays but they have seen a steady diet of Cover 2. So YAC from underneath routes converting firsts or even creating scoring opportunities would be awesome. They got a couple against KC.

On a side note after all-22 review. On both TD passes somehow Yoshi's towel ends up on the turf. No flag. But no one cares because of the end result. I can guarantee you, the one that was a toe tapper IF it got ruled the other way there would be much conversation about the holding prior that wasn't flagged. This notion of well there's contact so its a penalty is false. They call it subjectively. It was crap call at the end of the game. Chiefs had to make 0 plays to get a winning FG attempt. Hopefully the Bengals get a similar call under 2 minutes to go, trailing on hopeless 4th down later in the season.

You mean the Chiefs won, right? There's still Bengal fans whipping themselves over the Steeler playoff loss. It wasn't the refs, we deserved to lose. Fuck that. That game was an officiating nightmare that once again set up a winning FG for a team that made 0 plays to get it.

Correct. When a ref flips a 4th and 16 into a game winning FG attempt, it deserves to be called out, IMO. This isn't even a rarity in the NFL. It seemingly happens every week to some or multiple fan bases. The Cheifs got a similar penalty circumstance to win a Superbowl vs. the Eagles. Yeah, but hopefully the Bengals will get their Under 2 minute, trailing gift soon on a hopeless 4th down. Could have used it in Superbowl 56 though.

The defender got to the spot first. The contact was caused by the WR moving backwards. The assertion that contact is called damn near every time is false. Hopefully Bengals get a couple bad ref decisions in their favor coming up.

Also in one of the pictures there's "development" what appears to be several buildings added down town. Looks like they are using the stadium as trojan horse for some other city planning stuff.

Do they need a plan? The sales tax is already on the books. I guess it depends if they truly have been properly allocating the sales tax portion to the stadium fund or if they've been funneling it off to cover other budget shortfalls. Looks like a cool stadium. I don't really get the amount of video boards on the outside. The banks draws a crowd in nice weather to watch on the Reds video board. I guess that's the plan? Wouldn't be surprised to see them jack up in stadium ticket prices and then start charging outside stadium access. But remember when the NFLPA demands child care for their players. Everyone is all for that, I guess.

The contact happened because of the WR moving backwards and the DB moving to make a play on the ball. Fans are always going to scream for a flag when their WR is touched. However, there are bunch of times that is simply is a no call. It was bad officiating by the crew on that drive. You are going to let an offense bail themselves out on a 4 and 16 with a jump ball? The reason it was 4th and 16 was they couldn't block, but on the 4th down they couldn't block without holding but you reward the jump ball while the WR was moving backward and ignore the very reason why it was 4th and 16? Just pure crap. Flags should have been kept in the pocket based on the way it unfolded. On a greater scale KCs front office has done a horrible job filling in WRs and OTs. Great QB plays and lucky circumstances bail them out.

Same as the last 2 seasons. In 2022 they go on a run and it was big game and big week after week. 2023 appeared to be the same vs. 9ers/Bills. then Burrow's wrist injury pops up. Cincinnati has always been an offensive town/fan base. Until Burrow/Chase/Higgins win a game putting up big offensive numbers fans are going to hand wring over every little detail. If they grind out a win with average or poor offensive numbers the conversation will focus on Burrow's wrist, Chase/Higgins contract and whatever skill guy that isn't playing because they can't snap the ball. Bengals win MNF football by 1 point - My guess if its 33-32 there's a ton of excitement. If its 17-16 there's a ton of dread.

NFL rules dictate you must gain 10 yards in 4 downs to continue and you can only line up 11 of which 7 must be on the line and typically 5 are ineligible. Bengals did not snap the ball enough which is mostly on Burrow vs. the Patriots to run Burton out there 10 snaps vs. 4. Bengals did slightly better vs. KC. This was a predictable "problem" so and so sucks or needs more playing time blah, blah, blah. If Burrow is not converting 3rds so they can run more plays there will be some one that appears left out in a short sample. How much time did people waste over thinking the TEs before the bye week? Then boom as Burrow's play/accuracy improved he went to TEs as coverage dictated. Both New England and KC were among the better pass defenses last year. The Bengals lost the turnover battle week 1 -2 and won +2. Lost 2 games by 4 points. Commanders have not defended the pass very well at all so far this year vs. Mayfield and Daniel Jones. I hope the Bengals can throw the ball around this week.

The pressure is on for the Bengals to score early (hopefully) TDs. They could easily get pulled into a Patriots scenario with offensive buffoonery early in the game. If you let the Commando just run into the line and eat clock they'll be able to protect the young QB very well.