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Bengals win by a slim margin. Bengals have played 3 close games that could have gone either way. Unfortunately they all went in the L column. Solid road victory in Carolina. They may need to out score the Ravens because they looked great on Sunday Night. But its the same hard to follow rules. Don't rush pass Lamar, try to keep lane integrity and keep him in the pocket. Tackling is very worrisome.

I thought it was solid win. 10 point win on the road. Panthers got a positive switch at QB and coming home off a big road win was an overlooked task. 1. Defense - horrible. bad tacklers. Not sure how it gets better. Hopefully they force more TOs because they bleed yards. 2. Offense - O-line getting it done. Joe Burrow is excellent in patience and the underneath targets are getting YAC and converting firsts. Bengals probably played a B game, left points on the board.

I'm not sure how a vocal leader will prevent KC getting lucky with a fortunate call or your defense almost giving up a TD on every drive. Team just needs to knock a few wins down.

The JTO QB school for Dalton from the past week is a good watch. Dalton had a good/great day. However, JTO keeps repeating "He had a great day, but this is some luck". Dalton got a way with some iffy reads/throws. There a couple missed should be INTs. Dalton took advantage of some extraordinary bad secondary play from the Raiders. However, I would guess the Bengals secondary could play equally as bad. The Panthers protection was very good vs. Raiders. So? Does the secondary/defense bounce back or do they allow the Red Rifle to ride again! You allow Dalton to get the ball out quick and then don't tackle behind it. It will be a long day again for the Bengal defenders.

I hope Mims does very good. I was hoping not to get to the Mims era until later. Alt - top pick out of the class. They started polishing his nuts a little too early. TJ Watt took him to school. Was getting high praise prior. I think he's out for a while with an injury. Latham - up and down; gives up pressures, sacks Fashanu - Probably the best right now. Although Alt was doing great until TJ Watt. Fautanu - not doing well pass pro Guyton - struggling Suamataia - Hendrickson got him benched. Wasn't good week 1 either.

I would prefer crazy legs Andy to get out of the pocket. He was a horrible play extender. When his first read isn't there consistently he would constantly event pressure, break pocket and run himself into a situation with no solution. I'd say don't mess with the offense at all. Let them try to score as fast and as often as they can. If the D can't stop Andy Dalton in a shoot out so be it.

The league runs 70%+ zone defense. This is directly related to the league emphasis on Illegal Contact being called years ago and it carrying an automatic first down. However, there is an increasing amount of Zone/Man coverage. While the Bengals D just got carved up the overall trend in the NFL has been less yards and points from the point of when the league focused on illegal contact. These coverage are so complex, I seriously doubt a data analysis service (like PFF) can truly give an accurate % of zone vs. man. But according to them the league play 70% zone and its probably not going to revert back to the old days considering offenses have been slowed since the 2011 (?) rule emphasis. So? You fire a D Coord, fine. Good chance the replacement plays zone the overwhelming majority of the time.

Defense disaster performance against Washington. Had a good day vs. KC. Probably the biggest mystery of the season. I think the offense has put in two winning performances together despite facing exclusively deep coverage. If you want to be hopeful, get back to 5-5 and then take a look at the playoff picture. The offense is finding stuff underneath and getting YAC enough to produce scoring opportunities. There are some red zone concerns. Defense is going to give up yards, they'll have to revert back to the early days of Marvin and produce an insane amount of TOs, forcing punts doesn't seem to be their thing.

I believe it is a patch that every rookie will get when they are active for their first game. NFL PREM1ERE patch. I believe they will then be given the jersey as a keepsake or most likely to sell.

Bengals should roll up 400+ this week. The concern is what happened vs. Washington. No one, INCLUDING the lockeroom saw that domination coming from JD and Washington. So what unthinkable thing could happen this week to push them to 0-4?

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.