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I've debated even bothering with this. Because it's going to mostly be a bitch fest on my part and I don't want to ONLY do that but there isn't much else to say about this game. So I'll make these fairly brief this week.
Good: Honestly I'm just fighting for scraps here
Tavon Austin and his 60 yard rush was a thing of beauty off of the wildcat of all things and really the only replay worthy thing we did the entire day. Capped it off with a nice 5 yard dash to the endzone. The rest of his day was quiet.
Uh, Hekker is a good punter.
Jared Cook actually caught most of the balls thrown his way.... is this a good thing to note? I don't know but scraps.
Sean Mannion completed 6 of his 7 passes on the last series of the game for an 85.1 QB rating. Unfortunately his average yards a pass was 4.4. Scraps.
Bad:
Zero sacks by the defense. We're hurting without Quinn on that side. I do like Matt Longacre and believe he will be on the regular roster come next season but he can not replace Quinn. Donald was contained for the most part and failed to impress in a game featuring his oft mentioned equal counter part in Geno Atkins who had a sack to go ahead of Donald for most in the league for a DT. I'm jealous of Cincy's o-line.
Our pass defense didn't fair much better which is partly due to poor pressure on Dalton. Roberson seemed exposed most of the day. The Jenkins pass off of AJ Green that gave him a gimme touchdown was embarrassing and probably should go in the ugly section. Tyler Eifert probably would have had a field day on us if he hadn't gotten injured. Jenkins had a nice interception but think it was due more to a bad pass than Jenkins doing anything other than paying attention.
Ugly:
Coaching- across the board was awful. But same ole same ole so not going to spend a lot of time on it.
Tim Barnes- got manhandled by Atkins. Honestly surprised Atkins ended with only 1 sack, was in the backfield all day.
Greg Robinson- just does not look like a tackle at all. His size and quickness "saves" his rear a lot in only that it lets him get into at least a competitive position after starting the play completely wrong. Every pass play it looks like he scrambling for his life to not let the DE just run right past him after he takes what seems like an eternity to process what he should be doing. Oh yeah and double digits now in holding penalties for the year.
The rest of the o-line- more of the same from above. No running lanes at all. No pass protection for the most part. The few plays that worked was basically because Tavon Austin could out run the entire Bengals defense and he got some nice blocks on the outside from Britt and amazingly Cook.
Running into the punter to give a free set of downs close to their endzone that ultimately let them drive for a field goal was the beginning of the end. Defense had a nice stop there and seemed to lose confidence after that.
I'm sure there's more I could list here but meh. I'm tired of thinking about the game lol.
Good: Honestly I'm just fighting for scraps here
Tavon Austin and his 60 yard rush was a thing of beauty off of the wildcat of all things and really the only replay worthy thing we did the entire day. Capped it off with a nice 5 yard dash to the endzone. The rest of his day was quiet.
Uh, Hekker is a good punter.
Jared Cook actually caught most of the balls thrown his way.... is this a good thing to note? I don't know but scraps.
Sean Mannion completed 6 of his 7 passes on the last series of the game for an 85.1 QB rating. Unfortunately his average yards a pass was 4.4. Scraps.
Bad:
Zero sacks by the defense. We're hurting without Quinn on that side. I do like Matt Longacre and believe he will be on the regular roster come next season but he can not replace Quinn. Donald was contained for the most part and failed to impress in a game featuring his oft mentioned equal counter part in Geno Atkins who had a sack to go ahead of Donald for most in the league for a DT. I'm jealous of Cincy's o-line.
Our pass defense didn't fair much better which is partly due to poor pressure on Dalton. Roberson seemed exposed most of the day. The Jenkins pass off of AJ Green that gave him a gimme touchdown was embarrassing and probably should go in the ugly section. Tyler Eifert probably would have had a field day on us if he hadn't gotten injured. Jenkins had a nice interception but think it was due more to a bad pass than Jenkins doing anything other than paying attention.
Ugly:
Coaching- across the board was awful. But same ole same ole so not going to spend a lot of time on it.
Tim Barnes- got manhandled by Atkins. Honestly surprised Atkins ended with only 1 sack, was in the backfield all day.
Greg Robinson- just does not look like a tackle at all. His size and quickness "saves" his rear a lot in only that it lets him get into at least a competitive position after starting the play completely wrong. Every pass play it looks like he scrambling for his life to not let the DE just run right past him after he takes what seems like an eternity to process what he should be doing. Oh yeah and double digits now in holding penalties for the year.
The rest of the o-line- more of the same from above. No running lanes at all. No pass protection for the most part. The few plays that worked was basically because Tavon Austin could out run the entire Bengals defense and he got some nice blocks on the outside from Britt and amazingly Cook.
Running into the punter to give a free set of downs close to their endzone that ultimately let them drive for a field goal was the beginning of the end. Defense had a nice stop there and seemed to lose confidence after that.
I'm sure there's more I could list here but meh. I'm tired of thinking about the game lol.
