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He’s a better rhythm passer for sure - timing, touch, accuracy, ball placement - you can’t objectively say Allen has Burrow in any of those categories. And I said that long before this game.

They have a guy who knows how to properly coordinate the pieces.

Can’t stop the run. Can’t stop the pass. Can’t stop a nosebleed.

If you told me the Bills and Giants would make it the same distance this year, I would’ve assumed a 5-12 season because Allen got hurt.

That’s how you scheme a defense.

Maybe the worst game of Dawkins career.

CIN hasn’t even punted. They’ve rarely had a 3rd down to convert.

And that’s why I don’t punt on 4th and 2, you’re not stopping CIN anyway. They just drove right down the field again, no resistance.

What gets me, what REALLY gets me, is how unprepared the team looks. Forget about everything else, they just look out coached, out schemed, confused, a step slow everywhere. There may be truth that McD is Doug Collins and we need to find Phil Jackson, but it’d be a huge gamble replacing the staff and after Beane’s talk about McD as a coach of the year candidate, it’s not happening.

Don’t hurt any more of the Bengal players. Need them at full strength next week against KC.

Well done Bengals. Well done.

Let him, he never makes a difference against the better offenses, so what’s the use in paying him?

The Ravens offense was more of a threat to the Bengals than the Bills. Let that sink in.

Think it’s pretty clear this scheme can only flourish with great players.

Bengals D coordinator is a real one.

What’s alarming is that they’ll make no defensive changes to the coaching staff that also cost them 13 seconds.

I want Eric Bieniemy to go elsewhere and prove he’s as good an OC he believes himself to be (I don’t think he is). If so he’ll finally get a HC opportunity.

I think you mean Bates.

As they say on the basketball court, “D up on that guy and follow him to the locker room if you have to.”

Bills are now 6 pt favorites. Don’t usually see lines move like this unless a QB is out.

JAX is an extremely streaky team, they’re fully capable of beating the Chiefs… but they’ll have to bring their A game, especially Trevor, and hope for a few funny bounces of the football.

ESPECIALLY with a potential PHI vs BUF SB matchup. The birds have 4/5 OL who received 1st or 2nd team All Pro votes. That coupled with AJ Brown and the speedy skinny dude whose name escapes me, I don’t think we’d match up all that well with them. This DL underwhelms given draft position and resources allocated to the trenches. If just that unit could step up and play out of their minds, it’d take care of the secondary and everything else.

Both the Bills and the Bengals almost lost to inferior teams, yes, but I’d say the difference is that the Bengals were largely outplayed by the Ravens, while the Bills kept the Dolphins in the game by way of their own self-inflicted errors. No one, not even Dolphins fans, can say that team outplayed the Bills. It was more they were fortunate to be as close as they were. I didn’t think the Bengals had a sloppy game necessarily, or were clearly the better team against the Ravens.

I like how last year everyone was sure that if we had beaten KC, the Bengals were just a speed bump on the way to the SB. Well, it’s the same core team (albeit with a better record) but this time around I’m seeing a ton of nervous nellies. The only worry I have really is if the team isn’t dialed in with laser focus. If they are and they don’t turn over the ball, Bills win. This isn’t a coin flip match, Bills are the more talented team (even if they don’t always play that way).