Game Thread: Bengals vs. Ravens

[cincygrad]

This is fun for Bengals fans, but tonight is a prime example of why Thursday Night Football sucks.

 

[cincygrad]

Now we just wait for some random fans to come along and tell us how awesome it is that AJ Green is on their fantasy team.

 

[Cincyfan78]

Flacco simply does not drive the ball down field. Play bump coverage and take away the inside slants, and you can lock him up.

 

[Cincyfan78]

Ravens tried the reverse with Jackson, and Jackson was on a CB blitz and threw that entire play backwards.

 

[cincygrad]

I like this Sam Hubbard kid.... He's a beast.

 

[Cincyfan78]

Bates goes for INT #2 and missed...Big 3rd down conversion.

Knock that down son.

 

[Cincyfan78]

Also, Nickerson in coverage couldn't get his arms up on the pass??

 

[Cincyfan78]

Bengals get a break on 2nd down, with a dropped pass bring up 3rd and longer (5) than it would have been (inches)

 

[Cincyfan78]

Dennard with PI in the endzone....

Another instances of the refs calling the rule by black and white as opposed to the spirit of the rule. Yes there was contact, but it did not affect the end play result.

TD Ravens on next play.

 

[Cincyfan78]

Of course, none of that should have mattered. Bates with a whiff on a clear INT, and Nickerson someone running past a WR forgetting to "cover" him on the same play resulted in a huge 3rd down conversion. Just terrible.

 

[cincygrad]

Interesting to see what the Bengals do here.... This is where they go conservative and eventually B-More gets to within one score at half. They need to flip the script here.

 

[Cincyfan78]

Bengals finally get a roughing call.

 

[cincygrad]

Announcers are saying it's a bullshit call, but it was totally unneccessary. Looked like a frustration push.

 

[Cincyfan78]

Not a fan of the fake screen one way, go the other. Too long to develop and rarely works out.

 

[Cincyfan78]

3rd and long, and Dalton draws the defense offside, gets a free play and Hits Boyd for a big gain!

 

[Cincyfan78]

Mixon ANOTHER big gain. 9 yard run on 1st down.

 

[Cincyfan78]

Uzamah with a drop.

Dalton has only thrown 1 or 2 balls thus far that were "bad" throws. Others have been catchable and dropped or not caught.

 

[cincygrad]

The league is realizing how much Paul Alexander had the game pass him by.

 

[Cincyfan78]

Stop me if you've heard this before, Mixon with ANOTHER big run.

Holding will bring it back some, but it was down field so not a big blow, but still...Hart, you gotta let go son.

 

[Cincyfan78]

Dalton, AGAIN ON 3rd Down, Boyd for the 1st down.

Just killing the middle of the defense without Mosley.