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oh BOY

Dalton has definitely gone down hill though..he needs to step up his game or the Bungals will have to look elsewhere in the upcoming draft for a QB

I guess we'll see. But what do you expect Mixon to do in this league after one week? lol The Bengals were 13th in the NFL in offense last year. Hardly "putrid"

The texans may struggle b/c of a rookie QB, but I don't know how anyone can say the Bengals offense is "putrid".

Both these defensive lines are good. I'd say they are both solid/good defenses.

A hard-nosed defensive battle. Whats wrong with that?

Never understood love affair with the guy

Dalton sucks.

Hooefully they produce a couple of sacks and a turnover.

I took the Bengals D on my daily team this weekend.

There is much to be said about the entire defense being on the same page and working as one. If this defense buys into the system we're running, it can be a very effective unit b/c we do have some talent as well, especially on the D-line. Look at what the Pats have historically been able to do with no-names (for the most part) on defense. It's ironic that they would consider our defense garbage considering they play in a division with the Saints and the Falcons, two teams that have had god awful defenses at some point in the last 5 years.

Maybe you should actually think for yourself before you post, and take your blinders off. 1. Tyrod has now played 30 games. 2. But lets use your numbers and extrapolate: If Tyrod had played 69 games he would have 2,970 rushing yards (670 more than Kaep); Tyrod would have 26 rushing TD's (13 more than Kaep); 185 sacks (14 more than Kaep); 88 passing TD's (16 more than Kaep); 33 INT (3 more than Kaep); his completion % is 2.5% higher, which is a light year of separation in the NFL So, in sum TT would have 29 more total TD than Kaep and 670 more rushing yards, and lightyears ahead in completion %.

I would give up both our 1st this year and our 1st next year.

Awesome thread as usual glad it continues from last year. Ive never seen so much scrutiny on an incomplete pass before in my life. In the end for me, the question is painfully simple: Should that ball be caught 95% of the time? Yes, it should. If he was open 1 sec prior is irrelevant bc when he got the Ball he was still open. Openness is not an issue. Contact didnt cause the incompletion. Clay's bad hands did. Unless of course someone wants to argue that a ball is only catchable if its directly between the numbers.

Id like to know when the Carolina Panthers became a very superior team to anyone. Aside from 2 seasons where everything went right, they have been below .500 in a garbage division every other year. Your clearly superior team went 6-10 last season. They arent the Jets. But theyre not that far off from the Bills by any stretch imo

Held everything back? After week 1 we rank 3rd in offense in the NFL. Do you expect 1000yds of offense after one game? What is wrong with 50% of this board?

Hahaha. Psychiatric obsession. Hahah Well said.

We can definitely beat Carolina. But we cant leave 10 points off the scoreboard like we did vs the Jets.

We'll see man. I think he's good enough to take a decent team to the playoffs for a few years. And i think hes good enough to win a game in the playoffs on a really good team. He just turned 28 last month. Hes in his prime right now and possibly beginning to get comfortable in his own NFL skin.

You can mock it all you want, but it must be a sad existence on your end to be constantly so down on a player of a team you root for when said player has been one of the better players on the team over the last 2 seasons. This thread is ridiculously long btw. Gugny, you're still OK in my book. Just blind is all.

Reflect on an offense that finished top 10 in scoring over 2 years and broke single-game yardage records for the franchise and had a QB selected to the pro bowl in consecutive seasons.

I think the #1 priority for this new regime will be finding a Luke Keuchly type mlb to lead this defense for the next decade. I can see them giving priority to the lines as well. WR will be an after thought imo.

I dont think WR will be a priority under this regime. At all.

You can do whatever your heart desires and I don't mean anything negative about it. I applaud your efforts to look at film. All I'm saying is that creating any post about the number of plays Tyrod "left on the field" is a pointless endeavor because there is no point of comparison league wide. It's not even a quantifiable stat because you have absolutely no idea where the first read was or should have been or what the progression should have been. It's a 100% subjective and arbitrary post that provides absolutely no factual insight. The fact is, you have no idea if the number of plays Tyrod leaves on the field is a high number or a low number, compared to other QB's in the NFL.

While I absolutely don't deny that he leaves plays on the field, as you say, again if there is no point of comparison, what is the purpose of brining it up? What if you analyzed every single starting QB in the NFL and broke down their plays and it turned out that Tyrod in reality was within the top 15-20 QB's in the league at leaving the fewest plays on the field? What if Tyrod was in the top 5 in reality at leaving the fewest plays on the field? Maybe Tyrod would be ranked 32nd in the NFL at leaving fewest plays on the field. My point is, b/c you have absolutely no point of comparison for your statement that he leaves plays on the field, the entire exercise is jaded and pointless b/c in reality the few plays he leaves on the field may actually be better than 50% of the QBs in the league (or it may not be). In essence, you're building a "cautionary tale" about something for which you have no sensible idea if it requires caution or not.