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We will hear alot about Burrow not beating the Browns. In 2 of the 3 games he's played fantastic against them, the 3rd was not so great. Baker seemed like he would have his best games vs. Bengals. It will be a tough match up on the road. The Browns have a typical Browns record, but they lost some very winnable games. Bengals vs. Browns on Monday. It seems like the Battle of Ohio hasn't made an appearance on MNF in a long time. Maybe since the days of Boomer vs. Kosar.

Just an amazing streak this defense is on in the 2nd half.

Who Dey!

Burrow Fed Ex Air player of the week.

Can't remember which game it was maybe Denver, but Bachie was an impact LB in that game. Hopefully its a guy that pushes for more snaps.

Overall yes. But the next 2 weeks maybe 3 feature running teams and 2 of them have dynamic RBs. They may end up playing more snaps in a traditional look in the short term.

I'm not going out and getting a prime subscription just for Thursday Night football and now black friday. There's always decent college games. Now if you want to throw those games on free TV or any streaming service I currently have, yeah I'll watch.

Bengals need to create scoring pressure so teams can't sit and run all the time. Run defense has been the worse part about the defense.

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.