Scottishbengal

Pittsburgh wilk be hurting after last Sunday and wanting to re-establish a claim in the AFCN in one of the Leagues bitterest rivalries. Early in the season granted, but Pitts will not be wanting to fall 2 games behind before the end of Sept. Get ready for them to bring the house against the Bengals, they'll be wanting to defile us !! Oline (looking at you OBJ) needs to up the performance level and stop the sacks !!

Is OBJ a ghost ? Players just seem to run thriugh him !

Two tough road games coming up, happy to get a win or two over the next fortnight. Houston going to be trying to bounce back after an opening day L - they're too good a team to not want to smack us in the mouth. That said, our aerial game should be much improved than against TB and that will open up the run game. The feeling in my water is for a shoot out and we have the best weapons in the league for tgat scenario

I'm home alone, rest of family are out at a darts team end-of-season Indian meal, I didn't want to risk missing the kick off so I stayed put, it's all about the priorities !!!

Exactly - gotta get off with W today but I'm gut feeling a L just due to ZTs inability to have the team ready.

It's nearly here - just one day and some hours til kick off ....these close seasons seem to get longer and longer. Positives: Home field advantage...the stadium will be jumping. No serious injuries reported (Ja'Marr DNP Fri, listed as rest/knee - ??). Bengals returned all the important pieces on the offensive chessboard. Revamped D-line - impossible for this not to be an improvement. Negatives: ZT still here, still in charge, probably still calling plays. Bengals historically poorly prepared after a break (close season or bye week). OBJ still here - will be sent postcards from defensive players as they breeze past him on the way to the QB. Linebackers not addressed - have Knight and Carter improved enough since the end of the season? Historically the Bengals are poor against the run, hot knife through butter scenario, and Tampa have Irving and Gainwell ready to take advantage, one of them will probably crack up 100+ yards. Bengals 20, Bucs 24

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It is for me !! Just booked flights to Cincy to watch the Superbowl in some bar or other. Hopefully the Bengals will be representing, if not it'll still be an experience to indulge in the occassion stateside for a change.

This is ZT we're talking about - how delusional does it need to be before ya realise ????

Minimum of 4 weeks if you go to IR (i think ??)

Flacco has more experience than ZT and he's here just for the season, and then burrow will be back under centre. I'm OK with the trade TBH WHODEY !!

Presuming Jonah Williams is back fit and healthy we could essentially have 2 x first round picks in 2020 - if the Bengals go O-line with their no 1 selection it'll make a massive difference to addressing the shambles that is currently masquerading as an offencive line

after being blocked out on Yahoo for the past 2 weeks I'm now back in action. Need to pull finger out and get off the bottom of the League !!!

I'm not a huge fan of rugby at all, but I will watch the occasional international match if Scotland are playing ...... and this afternoon they are playing the USA. 'Mon Scotland !! Could be a sporting hat-trick for me this weekend, Wales beat England in rugby last night (ha ha), Scotland should be beat the USA and then Cincinnati are capable of going to Baltimore and plucking those turkeys too !!

Happy to have reached the semi finals after a dubious start at the Rothes Open tournament last weekend - i was pretty rusty having not played since March but came from 0-2 down to win the first round match 3-2 ...went on to win a couple more rounds and then beat the pre-tourny favourite 3-0 in the quarter finals before playing a stinker in the semi's and losing 4-2 to the eventual champion.