Week 3: Bengals @ Vikings

[Saintsfan1]

On 9/18/2025 at 2:16 PM, HoosierCat said:

Over at cbs Breech games out the rest of the season and comes up at 9-8.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/can-the-2-0-bengals-survive-joe-burrows-injury-predicting-how-their-schedule-plays-out-over-final-15-weeks/ 

tl;dr he has them winning most of the winnable games but not being able to beat any of the good teams (tho he does give them a split with Pitt). That would suck but also is a scenario I can very easily see happening.

Yeah I don't see it that way. They have to beat the Pats. 

[HoosierCat]

Good look at the o-line's (awful) performance from Goodberry.

He focuses on Mims, who is really frustrating. Mims is mostly dominant, but fails to finish a lot of plays, which results in the guy he was initially blocking running away from him and talking the runner or QB elsewhere on the field. He needs to play with more aggression. If you knock the guy down and he tries to get up, don't just stand there, push him back down again!

More broadly you can see several plays where the two sides of the line aren't in sync. The left side + Karras has its act together, but Mims and Risner are late getting off. Also Mims/Risner communications issues.

Orlando Brown with another rough game. Something ain't right there.

Karras got trucked some, Fairchild ok.

Sample almost totally worthless.