BeavercreekBillsFan

These are all valid points. I took the bengals -5 based upon this also. I don’t view the bengals banged up o line as a huge advantage for us without Von. Both the stats and my eyes tell me we can’t get after the qb with much consistency anymore so adding that to the fact that burrow has time to hit his trio of great receivers against our overmatched DBs, and it’s a recipe for a long night. I’m way more confident in the 49ers -4 though. That line is an absolute joke and just free money. Niners are going to roll.

99% agree with Simms here. Diggs is scary and Davis can be from a long ball standpoint. But we definitely lack in the weapons department. I’d say from a total weapons standpoint, the 49ers, Bengals, eagles and maybe the chiefs all have better weapons than we have. Niners are the best with unlimited YAC monsters, and bengals and eagles have better receivers overall. The sooner we all realize this team is really just josh and Diggs, the sooner we can all accept some of these truths. I just want Beane to realize it too so he can start to properly address it., plus the O line which is awful too

Yes I do, it’s a bad matchup for us. Really bad.

Tre isn’t Humphrey. Especially not after the injury. Agree with Elam needing to start. I’ll be as mad as everyone else when they trot Jackson out there Sunday and he gets torched at the catch point

I’m afraid this is the case. Von getting hurt just changed my outlook. I like Groot but he’s not some monster game changer and then the rest are just JAGs on the line. I’d like to think the bengals being undermanned on the o line will be our advantage but I’ve thought that several times this year and the bills d line doesn’t get home. if you can’t get to burrow, you’re already beat. Their WRs are incredible at the catch point. Our DBs struggle with that. Their WRs are incredible at YAC, we can’t tackle. You do the math. The o line SUCKS too. Josh sacked 7 times is inexcusable.

This is what I said but I was called a joe burrow simp. Bengals are scoring 35 points, just move and accept that. What have our DBs and Frazier done to make you think we can stop them? Josh has to be perfect this time. There are advantages there to be had. Eli Apple can be worked for sure but josh doesn’t have the kind of weapons that burrow has and I’m worried he’s going to be running for his life again with how bad our o line is and how good Hendrickson is. Use your eyes and not just stats, they’re misleading. We don’t have a Marcus Peter’s or Marlon Humphrey or Kyle Hamilton. They match up way better with the bengals than we do plus they’re a division opponent. I’m glad you have confidence in frazier though. That’s a bold strategy.

Don’t base your expectations of how good the bengals are based off of how well the ravens D played. We don’t have the ravens D. Josh can’t turn the ball over again like today. He’s going to have to be perfect to match what burrow and chase are going to do to our DBs.

Mahomes is still #1. Burrow is #2 though. He’s so damn accurate and poised too. Josh has more freakish talent but his numerous dumb plays puts him at #3 to me.

Chase will likely have 200+ yards and 3 TDs Sunday against us.

Chase is unstoppable. Like literally can’t stop him. Add in Higgins and Boyd and I don’t know what you do. Dane Jackson is going to get COOKED all night

Burrow may throw 4 TDs against us this weekend, 3 of them might go to chase. Could get really ugly

Anytime you need this defense to stand up, they’ll fail you. Even against skylar Thompson

If you think the D is bad today (and it is) wait until burrow and chase shred us next week

That bass miscue really bit us in the ass

It’s always been this way despite investing everything into our defense and not helping josh with premium draft investment.

Our d line is just filled with JAGs. Skylar has all damn day

Good job bass, just give them momentum and let them hang around

See my rankings above. Our lists are exactly the same. I think we’re heading to a SF/Cin SB with SF hoisting the trophy up

You have the correct teams. My power rankings in order of likelihood to win it all: Niners (best roster) Cincinnati (best weapons) KC (best qb) Bills (josh Allen/ lackluster defense) Philly (injuries at the wrong time/ no trust in hurts)

This defense can’t stop Mac Jones and some of you think they can compete with burrow and Mahomes lol

These plays are why it’s ok to say burrow and especially Mahomes are better.

Worst of all, by ignoring the o line and WRs, they’ve left josh and Diggs with no help

The defense has sucked for a while or have you not been watching

Thanks. I said it and got yelled at. Bengals were not going to punt once against us Monday night.

This is a great point. Every single thing we do seems so difficult. Crazy catches, josh running for his life, etc. To me it’s just a lack of true weapons and the decision to not invest in the oline, leaving us with josh having to be Superman each week