1 hour ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Exacly. I mean, it'd still be an asinine statement even if the offense gave our defense short fields all game, but we literally never turned the ball over once, our defense never forced one of their own, and we gave up almost 500 yards in total. Even 50% is laughable, but 90% he says. 90  

yea short field you would feel a little bit bad about it. but the drives were like 70,80,90 yard drives which is even worse.  

Not sure what the jags defensive game plan is but browning is simply just looking to throw in the pass game to chase. This half it’s the only receiver he’s thrown too. I’d try doubling chase and force browning to throw elsewhere. Not let chase beat me. Make someone else like higgins or Boyd as i don’t think browning is even looking to them this half. 

We have a catch 22 situation on our hands with this defense. Because we have seen them make incredible adjustments to completely shot down Puca and Kupp after initially being gashed. And followed that up by dismantling the Miami offensive passing attack. And really kept Mahommes at bay. 

As bad as coverage looks, they can deal with dynamic WRs well enough to win a shootout. Josh Allen had a big time game and the D made enough plays to let the offense come from behind. 

 

While theyve figured out how to deal with the passing attacks in the AFC (super bowl opponents) well enough (not good, but well enough), theyve gotten worse at matching up with SF, so now its questionable if they even get back the the super bowl at all. 

 

5 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

He seems kinda bi-polar to me. Every big game it feels like there are a few head scratcher decisions. 

Yes, he definitely isn’t consistent with his aggression, and things like not running the ball at the end of the half against KC after Hurts was sacked was beyond moronic. 

The 3 best teams in the NFL are in the NFC.

Ridley has been awful tonight

1 minute ago, RLC said:

The 3 best teams in the NFL are in the NFC.

Curious to see what the ravens look like against the Niners. I actually think defensively they have a unit that’s just below the niners. So i think they can get some stops in that game. I worry offensively they aren’t going to be able to score enough with andrews out and really besides zay flowers uninspiring WRs. 

Ugh Lawrence

yikes that looked ugly!! i really hope Lawrence is ok 

8 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

We have a catch 22 situation on our hands with this defense. Because we have seen them make incredible adjustments to completely shot down Puca and Kupp after initially being gashed. And followed that up by dismantling the Miami offensive passing attack. And really kept Mahommes at bay. 

As bad as coverage looks, they can deal with dynamic WRs well enough to win a shootout. Josh Allen had a big time game and the D made enough plays to let the offense come from behind. 

 

While theyve figured out how to deal with the passing attacks in the AFC (super bowl opponents) well enough (not good, but well enough), theyve gotten worse at matching up with SF, so now its questionable if they even get back the the super bowl at all. 

 

We watched Stafford overthrow wide open receivers for TDs at least 5x that game on the same exact route. We got lucky, we didn’t fix the issue they just couldn’t connect. 
 

We’re soft, slow, and have a scheme that doesn’t make any sense in a passing league. I agree we looked decent vs Miami, but that was one game forever ago. We’ve been getting gashed through the air all season, sucking on 3rd down and long, sucking on 3rd down in general, not creating enough time to create enough pressure. It’s a very disjointed defense that doesn’t seem like any position group is doing anything in conjunction for the other to succeed. We have 2 good drives yesterday, and allowed 6 straight TD drives for 70-90 yards each. That’s major failure. There’s no catch 22 they F-ing suck. It’s the same exact BS we had to watch for a half in the SB that lost us the game, instead this time we got to watch it for 3 quarters while Hurts and the offense did nothing. 
 

It all started with them 2nd and 15 backed up near their own endzone and we give up like 12 yards to a basic out route because our DBs are 30 yards away from the QB.  

7 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

He seems kinda bi-polar to me. Every big game it feels like there are a few head scratcher decisions. 

Notice how this season all the praise for him are arbitrary things. Last season it was "Man, this team is really prepared, he's coaching the most dominant offense in football. They absolutely smoke teams and they're prepared every week." After every game there were specific things about each game he was getting praise for. How good the offense looked, how prepared, how well designed and in sync everything looked.

This year, there really haven't been a lot of praises for specific things. Like scheme, game planning, play design, game management. It's stuff like "Man, the team never gives up!" and "They just know how to win under Sirianni!" Just general arbitrary things.

I've seen very little of "Sirianni's game plan for ___ game was absolutely brilliant" or "Man, in ___ game Sirianni was just one step ahead of their coach, he had them off balance all game" from even the most positive fans.

That looked awful. 

Lawrence likely done for the year.

Ankle or knee

Just now, BirdGang45 said:

yikes that looked ugly!! i really hope Trevor is ok 

Ouch. How many damn QBs gonna go out this year? I hope this isn’t serious.

That might be the end of the jags season. Looked awful. Hopefully he’s ok.

i do wonder if Doug calls nick if Lawrence is done for the year. 

I think as much as its annoying the eagles rarely run the ball on 1st down what bothered me more last night was that they NEVER run it on 2nd down.

On the rare occasion they ran on 1st and got like 3 yards, all I wanted them to do was run again for another 3 yards. Ill take a 3rd and 4. Heck, Id run it again for another 3 yards and do what we do on 4th and 1.

I dont care that Swift didnt break off a big one on any of his very few opportunities. He coulda had 15 carries for 45 yards in that game, and SF wouldnt have had the ball enough for 6 consecutive scoring drives. And we would have sustained more drives too. 

Every contender but Dallas or SF is losing players.

Health matters.

2 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

I think as much as its annoying the eagles rarely run the ball on 1st down what bothered me more last night was that they NEVER run it on 2nd down.

On the rare occasion they ran on 1st and got like 3 yards, all I wanted them to do was run again for another 3 yards. Ill take a 3rd and 4. Heck, Id run it again for another 3 years and do what we do on 4th and 1.

I dont care that Swift didnt break off a big one on any of his very few opportunities. He coulda had 15 carries for 45 yards in that game, and SF wouldnt have had the ball enough for 6 consecutive scoring drives. And we would have sustained more drives too. 

Agreed 100% if you have rate 2.5 sometimes you’ll get a 6 yarder and have a wide open playbook on 3rd down. Instead we drop back for 45 minutes to find no one and fall down. Our game management and situational football has been terrible and overlooked due to comeback wins 

Bengals should really try to eat clock here and try to get it all the way down to a fg or td with seconds left 

Jake Browning coming out party

Wow, the Bengals haven't won a road MNF game since 1990.

5 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

I think as much as its annoying the eagles rarely run the ball on 1st down what bothered me more last night was that they NEVER run it on 2nd down.

On the rare occasion they ran on 1st and got like 3 yards, all I wanted them to do was run again for another 3 yards. Ill take a 3rd and 4. Heck, Id run it again for another 3 yards and do what we do on 4th and 1.

I dont care that Swift didnt break off a big one on any of his very few opportunities. He coulda had 15 carries for 45 yards in that game, and SF wouldnt have had the ball enough for 6 consecutive scoring drives. And we would have sustained more drives too. 

We ran it eight times on first and second down and averaged 2.1 yards per carry. 

Bengals false starts killing them. 

Ill say something else. Swift is awesome. I want him on the team next year with increased usage. Miles Sanders couldnt stay healthy either. Until he did. Which brings me to my point- the way Miles ran behind this OL last year- this team misses him. Sanders had an abysmal season in Carolina. Bring him back next year on the real cheap and have a dynamic 1-2 punch with him and Swift.

Back to ground dominance. Swift, Sanders, Hurts.

Just now, metal said:

Wow, the Bengals haven't won a road MNF game since 1990.

How many mnf have the bengals had since then on the road?