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That was a fun play.

Wilson plays like 97% of the time. Prat about 60% and Gaither about 30%. In terms of snaps. The easy solution is to just up their snap counts. My guess is that they could add a LB for precaution against more injury but the filling of Wilson coverage snaps could come from the safety group. This could open up some snaps for Dax Hill as maybe Bates fills some of the Wilson coverage and Dax back fills Bates. Just a guess.

Bengals have cut down on the negative plays. I would still like to get through a game without giving up a sack. Atlanta's defense gives up yards and doesn't pressure the QB. I hope this is a game the Bengals can get out early on offense and put pressure on the Atlanta Offensive to do things they aren't great at.

Bad punt return fumble and stupid roughing passer call allowed Saints to stay with their running game. Otherwise it might have been a 10+ point win by Bengals

Need to put scoring pressure on the next two opponents to get them away from the strength of their running game.

Jimmys and Joes are always more important than x and o. That said the offense has struggled below expectation. Good to see them put up a 30 burger. Defense not giving up a 2nd half TD steak is kinda crazy.

Reading too much into it.

Good to see MVP Joe playing out there today.

Who Dey!

I wonder if Coach Kilmer was there?

maybe he had a dick cramp?

Again, there will always be a certain low percentage of dirt balls in this world that can play football really well. If the NFL and NFLPA are not willing to take drastic steps to remove this from the player talent pool then don't address it all. In the real world IF you are sexual predator found guilty you serve jail time and then have to register years afterward. Watson just misses a handful of games and his employer attempted to structure his compensation to help him out. The NFL should do 1 or 2 things. Point to the US Criminal Justice system and/or take steps to have trash like this removed from the league. The problem is and has been for years is you have a bunch of lawyers and PR guys in the NFL league office that are completely reactionary and we see this EVERY facet of the game. Look at the joke concussion protocol. It would not be hard to instruct your refs to only flag blatantly obvious head hunting or use of head. Then you take your technology after the game and review each snap and start assigning safety demerits or whatever. When it reaches are certain level an escalation of warnings, fines, suspension, dismal is enacted. Give a fast track for the Burficts of the world that blatantly try to injury and are successful. They are now in bed with gambling. Eventually that's what this game will be about. So you can't have the eye in the sky taking start taking players off the field during a game and expect the gambling crowd not to be outraged. You can't have these horrible roughing the passer calls.

Ain't nothing but a Dalton party....

The confusing part is Burrow himself declared "pick your poison", but his play doesn't reflect that. When they checked it down against Baltimore his targets got him scoring opportunities more times than punts, when he didn't it resulted in negative plays giving the Ravens better field position and better scoring opportunities. When you declare "pick your poison" then that means when a defense plays you dishonestly you are simply going to grind them up with what they are giving you. Yet time and time again he elects not to go this route.

Once again this week is an opportunity for the Offensive Line to establish improvement and hopefully dominance. Saints seem to be about the same level of giving up yards as Ravens/Dolphins.

Disagree (checking down part). Burrow took a sack. Next two drives checked it down to Hurst and resulted in punts. Then after the INT. Checking it down was quite effective as they didn't punt the rest of the game. Post Int: 1st drive - running game carried it. With a big play to Thomas. TD 2nd drive - Check downs to Perine. He caught 3 passes. This got them a shot at the endzone but ultimately a FG. 3rd drive - Burrow passed on checking it down, INT 4th drive - Check downs to Boyd, Hurst, and Perine creating first downs. They got Chase 1 v. 1 down and got the PI. They got stopped on the goal line 5th and final drive - TD. Some good runs, but a lot of short passes. That's it once they started to take what the D gave them they had to punt twice. The lone exception was throwing into coverage vs. two targets open underneath. IMO, the Bengals need to have mindset to damage defenses like this until they change. Throwing into coverage or taking sacks will only encourage them to play more coverage because the Bengals are proving to be their own worse enemy on offense.

To be honest until Joe Burrow can sit there and start taking the yards given. D-coordinators are not going to change and the griping about scheme or whatever will be futile. As the clips are coming out: Burrow isn't playing bad. He just isn't playing elite. His Int once again on first down should have been checked down take your easy 5 yard gain and move on to 2nd and 5. Clean pocket. Then the line that is playing better but I wouldn't say great absolutely has to punish teams for playing coverage. Otherwise the ticket to the playoffs is relying on Defense.

I think its a common deal because you always see a cluster of guys in the booth. There have been several teams struggle early in this year with the play clock.

Absolutely agree.

Given the amount of deep zone. Mixon and that line should never be close to the number 1 yard or less carries they have at this point in the season. IMO, that is issue No. 1. The players have to have that mentality they'll grind out 3 yard carries at worse but never going to have that amount 1 yard or less carries. No. 2 QB can't take sacks. QB can't pass on free yards and take sacks. Why as a D-Coordinator would you ever call anything else? It is unlikely they'll gash in run game and the QB is highly likely to take a sack or force it into coverage. There are scheme concerns but I don't know enough about it to say what; other than to look at the results and clearly see something ain't right.

Hurst was wide open on that play. It was 3rd and 12. Hurst would not have gotten the first but you can't pass a 6-10 yard gain and turn it into a 8 yard sack. Sure maybe something could be drawn up but really the point of the matter is they did a shitty job run blocking on first and 2nd downs. Then your QB takes a sack. No D-Coord with any sense would ever stop deep zone with results like that. That series ultimately sets up the Ravens to go up 10-0. After this series Burrow started to take the check downs. Run game improved and the Bengals ultimately took the lead. Part of the issue the Bengals need a toughness attitude to not lose yards running the football and to not to take sacks when teams are sitting in deep zone. After watching that video, I'm wondering what Joe Burrow is thinking. Check it down. Let your athletic TE try to make a play. If not punt and see if your reliable defense can hold. Probably swung field position 20 yards. Sometimes it seems Joe Burrow thinks he is Qbing the 2020 team that couldn't stop anybody. There is no reason to take these sacks and pass on check downs. The defense is good and punting isn't a bad thing.

IMO, the Bengals hit a lot of big plays last year and it probably covered some warts. Players as much as coaches have to show the ability and willingness to grind out drives by checking down constantly. Until they do that I'm not sure why any team would give them looks that would put them at risk of big plays.

Past the 2nd quarter, I thought the line played its best ball. Burrow got to the check down quite a few times without being touched and the running game showed signs of life. I do think the offensive brain trust need to figure out a way to get more points given the level of talent they have.

Crap.

Simms bringing the heat. The offense has under performed. The last 2 weeks should have been yardage and point buffets. The Ravens haven't been able to stop anyone, so hopefully they get on the right path.