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Fake Game 1: Packers @ Bengals


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Not super impressed with the Back Up QBs.   Would love to see a vet addition.   Matt Ryan?  Whoever the Steelers cut Rudolph or Trubisky?   Our QBs don't look real comfortable, IMO.   Of course they are throwing to reserves behind a back up line. 

Myles Murphy - kinda blah pass rush.  However Packers were doing a lot of play action roll outs.   But the Back QB (from St. Xavier) had too much time to throw.   Murphy did have a couple nice run stops on the evening.

D-line - Would have liked to have noticed Zac Carter more in pass rush.   But again the Packers seemed content to get the ball out and alot of play action misdirection roll outs. 

Safety play - was impressive all around.   Dax showed tremendous range on the first drive.  If he's getting it mentally he's an athletic upgrade.   Of course Tycen.   Battle came up and made some thumps.    

I'm guessing Defense overall had some break downs in the secondary once Love went out.   There were a bunch of frustrating big plays and 3rd conversions. 

Back up 0-line - not great, but looked real bad in the 4th quarter.    Carman looked odd in that 4th quarter.   Not sure what his deal was.  Thought he looked blah against better competition early in the game, but horrible in the 4th against weaker.    Maybe he though his day was over or something? 

Bengals probably wanted to get back up QBs some throws early in the game.  Not a whole lot of action for Brown/RBs first half.   Showed some moves later on in the game. 

New Punter - up and down.    The FG operation looked good.

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With just one starter playing I don’t think you can look at much more than individual performances. This was a decent write up tho I’d add Battle to the winners list.

https://www.profootballnetwork.com/cincinnati-bengals-winners-losers-preseason-game-1-nfl/amp/

also Trags:

https://www.clnsmedia.com/bengals-quick-hits-tycen-anderson-picks-off-2-including-pick-6-evan-mcpherson-boots-4-fgs-packers-beat-bengals-36-19

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There is not much to take away from the game, minus Anderson and a few plays here and there.  It’s just too hard with so few starters actually playing.

While I could list more than a handful of flashes from a positive perspective, I really only have one drawback.

Siemian…
Rookies and backups have nothing to do with him staring down his target straight from the snap. I was paying pretty good attention to him and he rarely, if ever, worked through his progressions. He knew where he was going pre-snap and stared down his guy until he threw the ball. Even then, the throws were errant at best.

That doesn’t make me a fan a Browing per se, but Siemian was flat out awful last night.

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