Bengals/Niners flexed to 4:15 ET

[cincygrad]

Good news for Bengals. 1) they play better when the sun is out. 2) they get back earlier from the west coast for an important week of practice for game at Denver.

 

[DanBengalfan]

wow, when your players stop getting arrested for dumb stuff the NFL throws a bone your way. Meeoooowwwww!!!

 

[Cincyfan78]

Also guarantees good Andy!

 

[CrashDavisSports]

Also guarantees good Andy!

Don't even really need good Andy, just decent Andy with as poor as SF offense is. Worst scoring offense in the NFL.

 

[Cincyfan78]

Don't even really need good Andy, just decent Andy with as poor as SF offense is. Worst scoring offense in the NFL.

Yeah, and really he's been consistent Andy pretty much all year.

His worst game was probably the Houston game, and he was not helped by at least 5, probably a lot more, drops in that game. Who knows how good his stats would have been had they caught event 3 or 4 of those, and of course if AJ doesn't fumble, I have full confidence that he was leading that offense to a game winning TD.

 

[cincygrad]

Gabbert has given them a little bit of life. I suspect a closer game than most think.

 

[CrashDavisSports]

Gabbert has given them a little bit of life. I suspect a closer game than most think.

Honestly, if we don't win that game by 10+ points, I will be very disappointed. I am thinking something like 27 to 10. Gabbert still blows, he is just better than Colin.

 

[cincygrad]

Honestly, if we don't win that game by 10+ points, I will be very disappointed. I am thinking something like 27 to 10. Gabbert still blows, he is just better than Colin.

Arizona needed a score there late to beat them just a few weeks ago. It's a west coast game played in the middle of two of the biggest games on our schedule. I'd be shocked if it were a blowout.

 

[CrashDavisSports]

Less familiar opponent for them than Arizona is. I would expect the same thing with Baltimore coming up for us, or especially Pittsburgh. Divisional games are just different, I am not sure why, but they just are. It is in SF, but it is a 4:15 game in SF which is like playing at 1:15 on the East coast. The fact it is at 4:15 I think plays a huge advantage for the Bengals versus home field does for the 49ers. There is just no way in hell that place will be louder than Arizona was on SNF, Pittsburgh a few weeks ago, Baltimore in week 3.

#1 CIN scoring defense against the #32 SF scoring offense
#4 CIN scoring offense against the #19 SF scoring defense

 

[futballiscool]

They very easily could have beat an Arizona team who's one of the best in the league. They beat a good Chicago team on the road in a game the Bears needed for the playoffs. The Niners are playing really hard for their coach. The Bengals are elite so they should win but this game worries me much more than it did a few weeks ago

 

[Cincyfan78]

As well as they've been playing lately, they are bound to lay an egg.

The odd thing is, I'm referring to the 49er's and not the Bengals.

27-10 early prediction.

 

[kramer1]

You people crack me up. Of course the Bengals are going to kill the 49'ers.

 

[cincygrad]