Motorin'

The Bengals ran the ball 28 times w/ their RB's for 140 yards. The Bills ran 11 times for 38 yards... Cook was clearly ineffective on the slippery field, whereas he had gashed the Bengals on the one drive... But Motor could have helped keep us in the game... The point is, the two drives that the Bills did score on they mixed in the run. And all the rest of the drives looked like the Bills against the Jaguars, passing 95% of the time with little to no success.

It's not that the Bills couldn't run the ball against the Bengals. It's that they refused to run the ball against the Bengals. Motor has 6 carries for 25 yards, 4.2 per carry. The Bengals stay in base nickel against heavy set packages, and the Bills could have run the ball down their throat until they pulled Hendrickson and added a 3rd LB. Which is when Josh would have been able to throw deep. But it's almost like they watched Burrow take 5 to 10 yards every play and said to themselves the only way they could keep up is to throw bombs. When in fact the only way they could have kept us is by taking 4-5 yards per play and moving the sticks all day. Like they did against the Rams and the Titans, until the deep shots opened up. Their motto wasn't "humble and hungry" it was "stubborn and hard headed."

He's a good receiver on short and intermediate routes. Can play inside and out. I think Josh would do for him what he did for Jon Brown and Cole Beasley when they were first signed, elevate his play resulting in the best performance of his career. He's a potential 1,000 yard reciever in this offense and a #2 posession wr. Also makes us better while weakening our divisional opponent.

No dark sarcasm in the classroom.

I said this about Frasier last year, and it just occured to me about McDermott. I think they would probably both be better coaches at the college level. They're very rigid in their process both on and off the field, and could probably have more impact on the lives of college players hoping to turn pro. And I honestly think they'd be more fulfilled being able to mold young men. They could probably take over a major D1 program and start recruiting the best talent with the promise of the NFL and win multiple national championships. But I have doubts if they have the flexibility and creativity required to take an NFL team to the highest level.

Lol, I knew "everyone" who believes any kind of insane conspiracy theory was going to jump on a body double conspiracy theory as soon as I saw the way he came in and was introduced at the game. And like clock work.

Nobody plays multiple yards off beyond the sticks in cover zero on 3rd down. And the teams that run it often and well play press man. They know they'll have a free rusher so they have to cover for a minimum of 2 seconds. If they can cover for 2 seconds their pressure will get home.

This play killed me live. I wanted to throw something at the TV. I could believe they played this far off on such a crucial 3rd down. It was infuriating in the moment. And even worse looking at it now.

The Bills were actually quite good running the ball when they brought Bobby Hart in as a blocking TE. We should have gone to that yesterday and shoved the ball down their throat. It worked on the first series in Cinci, because they stay in nickel. If we had done that enough, they would have pulled Hendrickson out and maybe added a LB. And that's when you go to play action. But back to the thread. Dawkins and Morse are average starters. Bates is a slightly below average starter. And Saffold and Brown grade out as backups. Draft two G's, one that has C experience and an OT to compete with Brown.

We need a new monster LG and RT.

Great points. Dorsey also seemed to refuse to go to 12 or the Bobby Hart package yesterday, even after the Ravens had gashed them all day long. Like the Bills, the Bengals stay in base nickel even against heavy looks. Dorsey could have explored that all day, especially running at Hendrickson. The one time I remember them doing that, freaking Dawson Knox blew him up. Stubbornness is this staff's Achilles heal. From refusing to play younger, newer players over failing vets, to refusing to alter the game plan to take advantage of the other team's weaknesses.

When this thread came up last year I asked, what if McDermott is to Allen what Reeves was to Elway? Dan Reeves was very successful, had 8 winning seasons out of 11 as HC in Denver. Could never win the big game. Reeves fired his OC Mike Shannahan the year before he himself was sacked. The Broncos brought back Shannahan as HC the following season and would go on win two Super Bowls with Elway.

4th and 6 from the 16 and all of the recievers run to the endzone. It wasn't 4th and goal... What kind of play call was that?

Pederson called the plays. Frank was more like the QB coach.

The ball was a second late.

Missing Daquan is huge on this slippery field.

Half time snack to go with the orange slices.

The one positive is that the Bengals are a first half team. And the Bills are a second half team.

There was a point on his back where both of his hands were off the ball around Milano's arm. Couldn't have had posession.

And if you're going to bring everyone you can't cover 10 yards off. That's just giving up the first down. Thst's scared defense.

No more soft zone that let's them run wide open.

The D needs to stop playing zone unless they match coverage. If they all keep their eyes on the QB and let Burrow manipulate them they're going to keep triple covering a 5 yard out while letting their receivers streak uncovered down field.

Chase tapped him on the shoulder on the way passed him. The only way Chase wasn't scoring a TD at that point was if Edmunds followed.

Edmunds. He decided not to follow Chase down the seam ans instead chose to double team a 5 yard flat route. Leaving Chase alone with no one with 20 yards of him.

Kelce blocks and then runs delayed routes all the time. He can setup the guy he's blocking, push off and run to voids. Hard to do that with wr's.