Game Thread: Bengals vs. Buccaneers

[bphillips4gg]

I'm not for or against the onside kick there. Yes your d is playing well, but they may have seen something in their prep that suggested it would work. But the execution was definitely piss poor.

 

[Cincyfan78]

So, that's 6 points straight up due to poor coaching in this game.

 

[bengaldoug]

We just donated them three points.............................

 

[JBUCK66]

there's a free 3 for ya

luckily Marvin is not screwing up the pittsburg game

 

[bengaldoug]

Please put Hill in, and run the fucking ball!

 

[DanBengalfan]

our coaches are bad
real bad
really bad mofo

 

[bphillips4gg]

If anyone wants to blame this on coaching they're crazy. Dalton has been the biggest culprit and Hue has done a hell of a job coaching around the shortcomings of his QB and RT.

 

[Cincyfan78]

If anyone wants to blame this on coaching they're crazy. Dalton has been the biggest culprit and Hue has done a hell of a job coaching around the shortcomings of his QB and RT.

Dalton has done his share of damange, but you can't, as a coach, give up/give points with poor clock management and decisiobns.

Clock mis-management cost them at least a 3 point try at the end of the 1st half

Poor decision cost them 3 points there...that's 6 points, that has not been directly affected by the players on the field.

 

[Cincyfan78]

1 run, and then pass-pass, chceck-down, check-down.

This offense has got to get some WR's open somewhere when they are rushing 6-7

 

[JBUCK66]

time to using our TOs

 

[Cincyfan78]

Damn...Bengals got lucky there on that pass.....

 

[Cincyfan78]

Adam Jones with a fair catch....I hope someone recorded that!!!

 

[JBUCK66]

if you are desperate you call the onside kick. it REEKS of desperation

 

[bphillips4gg]

Dalton has done his share of damange, but you can't, as a coach, give up/give points with poor clock management and decisiobns.

Clock mis-management cost them at least a 3 point try at the end of the 1st half

Poor decision cost them 3 points there...that's 6 points, that has not been directly affected by the players on the field.

There's absolutely no guarantee they get points at the end of the half. They were still 10-15 yards away from even attempting a field goal. Should he have called a timeout? Maybe. Probably. But you can't just assume that Nugent is going to hit a 50 harder or that they even pick up enough to get him a shot.

That sneak onside didn't work. If it had nobody would be second guessing it. That's as much on Nugent as it is whomever decided to try it. You can't kick it that slowly and expect to have any hope of recovering it. You can disagree with the decision to try it, please don't even try to argue with the fact that poor executive is the reason it didn't work.

 

[bengaldoug]

Damn...Bengals got lucky there on that pass.....

Mike Evans is a stud.

 

[Cincyfan78]

That's a bullshit call.

 

[bphillips4gg]

If Sanu is dropping passes then you know it's not your day.

 

[JBUCK66]

any chance we see cambell?

 

[bengaldoug]

That's a bullshit call.

These officials have been flag happy all day.

 

[Cincyfan78]

There's absolutely no guarantee they get points at the end of the half. They were still 10-15 yards away from even attempting a field goal. Should he have called a timeout? Maybe. Probably. But you can't just assume that Nugent is going to hit a 50 harder or that they even pick up enough to get him a shot.

That sneak onside didn't work. If it had nobody would be second guessing it. That's as much on Nugent as it is whomever decided to try it. You can't kick it that slowly and expect to have any hope of recovering it. You can disagree with the decision to try it, please don't even try to argue with the fact that poor executive is the reason it didn't work.

Wrong.

After the catch, the Bengals were at the 36 yardline. That's a 52 yarder for Nugent, and they would have at least had a chance (as I said) for a FG.

Should they have called a timeout? Not probably. YES. They had 3, and they ran 10 seconds off the clock, and it was clear as day that the offense was not on the same page. Why rush in that situation with 3 timeouts. Call the TO, set up a play (or two) and get on the same page. It's the same poor clock management that has plagued this team for over a decade now.

Wrong on the on-side kick. It was the wrong call. Even if they recovred it, it was the wrong call. The end result does not dictate whether a play is "good" or "bad". The situation does. That was not a good situation for that. The defense had been holding them down. You kick that ball off and force that offense, now down, to drive the length of the field. I could understand if the defense had been struggling and giving up long drives and/or points, but that was not the case.