membengal Posted August 15, 2021 Author Report Posted August 15, 2021 Backs up my initial impression… Quote
AMPHAR Posted August 15, 2021 Report Posted August 15, 2021 New unis are awesome. Glad to see them sack TB12. Great to get the win. Hopefully no bad injuries. Quote
membengal Posted August 15, 2021 Author Report Posted August 15, 2021 With 12 hours to reflect: 1. The defense was REALLY impressive. All three teams. The first team D had such a promising debut. Pressure from the line, swift LBers to the ball, glue coverage from Awuzie. And that mostly repeated through second and third team (w/ a few exceptions). Maybe the difficulty they've been giving Burrow and the offense is...legit. 2. Decent pocket for Allen to work with when he had first string line. Really fun to see each of Boyd, Chase and Higgins get a catch to move the sticks. 3. Hope that teams that need FG kickers are on our speed dial for Seibert. I would really like to see them move him for a 6th or so. I think there should be a market. 4. McPherson has a howitzer of a leg. Backs up what we've heard from camp, but, the ball just explodes off his foot. 5. I hope like hell that Ossai is not a bad injury. They clearly have something there. But there also really good work from Sample and Hodge and man does our defensive line depth look quite different this time around. On Ossai's sack of Brady, was nice to see that Hendrickson had beaten the LT badly and was arriving from his side as well. Quote
membengal Posted August 15, 2021 Author Report Posted August 15, 2021 This was the hold called on Carmen by the way - I still don't think this is a good call... Quote
Stripes Posted August 15, 2021 Report Posted August 15, 2021 If I am remembering the correct play, I think Carman might have had a grip of the defender's jersey on the way down (on the front side), so the visible tug drew the flag. It's kind of lame and probably didn't have a significant role in Carman winning that matchup. Quote
TJJackson Posted August 15, 2021 Report Posted August 15, 2021 16 hours ago, membengal said: S O N U V A B I T C H ! ! Quote
TJJackson Posted August 15, 2021 Report Posted August 15, 2021 I did not get to watch the game How did Carman and Smith do overall? Did Smith get any time at ORT? (serious mistake by the Bengals imho if he didnt) Do we know the extent of Ossai's injury? Quote
membengal Posted August 15, 2021 Author Report Posted August 15, 2021 Smith was at LT in second half. The backp-up at RT is clearly Fred Johnson who DNP. I think Prince swung over to RT in second half when Smith went to LT. Smith was good but had some "oh shit" bad moments. Smith flashes very positively. Carmen was pretty damn good run blocking (dominant on three straight blocks inside the 10 when Evans score the rushing TD) and...less so pass blocking. He looked like a guy who needs time, something that he's gonna get. I don't see him starting anytime in the first half of the season, but, who knows. No word on Ossai yet. The entire defensive line was insanely productive all evening. I am NOT used to seeing that in the pre-season from this team. Quote
membengal Posted August 15, 2021 Author Report Posted August 15, 2021 Pretty sure Michael Jordan is gonna be starting week 1 against MN. Just make your respective peaces with it now. I am trying to. It's not gonna be easy. Quote
membengal Posted August 15, 2021 Author Report Posted August 15, 2021 fwiw (and Jordan played several series while rest of first string left game after one series): Quote
Stripes Posted August 15, 2021 Report Posted August 15, 2021 I thought the only slack the defense gave all night was in the second-team secondary, primarily on third down. It's reassuring though that the first team is so solid that there really ought not be too many opportunities to deal with that in real games. The corners go at least 4 deep and the safeties at least 3. Quote
AMPHAR Posted August 15, 2021 Report Posted August 15, 2021 2 hours ago, Stripes said: If I am remembering the correct play, I think Carman might have had a grip of the defender's jersey on the way down (on the front side), so the visible tug drew the flag. It's kind of lame and probably didn't have a significant role in Carman winning that matchup. Hard to tell from TV view and judgements from TV feeds should be noted. Wish we had end zone view, BUT IMO that’s not a great play by Carmen. Looks like guy got underneath him. His hands got outside and he lost ground because of lost leverage. At least he finished the play. Quote
AMPHAR Posted August 15, 2021 Report Posted August 15, 2021 1 hour ago, membengal said: Pretty sure Michael Jordan is gonna be starting week 1 against MN. Just make your respective peaces with it now. I am trying to. It's not gonna be easy. I think your right. Xavier in at the end of the game tells me he’s odd man out and they trying to get film for him for other teams. Quote
membengal Posted August 15, 2021 Author Report Posted August 15, 2021 36 minutes ago, Stripes said: I thought the only slack the defense gave all night was in the second-team secondary, primarily on third down. It's reassuring though that the first team is so solid that there really ought not be too many opportunities to deal with that in real games. The corners go at least 4 deep and the safeties at least 3. On top of that, Eli Apple and Ricardo Allen didn't play so it was more 3rd string secondary. Quote
AMPHAR Posted August 15, 2021 Report Posted August 15, 2021 I think the Bengals have jumped up to top 10 classic unis with the black/white combo. I’ll wait to see all combos but those last night were right there with Cowboys wearing Whit at home,IMO. Super impressed Quote
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