JawnyBlaze

Significantly.

Darnold maybe, Baker more likely, Wilks definitely not. He makes every defense he takes over worse than they were before and is way too conservative. I’ll never understand some people’s obsession with Ron Rivera-lite. The full calorie version was bad enough.

I’m the same way. Yea there was some frustrating stuff, the drops really killed our chances of coming back at the end, but the offense looks solid. Defense is dealing with too many injuries, Brown being out hurts a lot. But that was still Burrow, Chase and Higgins. They’re a great offense. We’re just not in their league yet.

Tough game but good effort. Too many injuries, and Bengals are a good team despite their record. At least our offense is looking solid. Just gotta get those drops under control.

Wow. Refs are fully in the Bengals pockets

Wow that was a bs call

Legette!!!

What happened on that Sanders run? Didn’t look close to down til he had already gotten ten yards

Well that first hit was just awful. Didn’t even attempt to tackle by Woods. Just embarrassing.

Our offense just looks more efficient and powerful than theirs. We march every time, and yea they took advantage of a short field off a fluky int, but they haven’t been able to have a long drive yet. I’m still very optimistic overall about this offense.

I had the same thought earlier in the drive but figured it’s because Hunt is playing hurt.

Well I like the decision by Canales regardless. Aggressive and show your guys you trust them. Bengals are pinned at the 1, so we start with the advantage on defense.

Offense had the players. Been saying it. Everyone still looking good, marching down the field without problems. Converting third downs. Beautiful.

Yep, that’s the one. Insane throw.

The Cam bullet time throw he curved around the Atlanta defender to…a TE I forget which, is one of my all time favorite throws.

This. Some people like to try to spin it as “it’s a QB’s job to manage the game” but it really just means a QB who is not a game changer. They won’t win or lose you the game on their own. They’re good enough to succeed if the team around them is good, but doesn’t elevate the team. It’s not a complimentary term, but it’s saying at least they’re competent enough to not lose you games.

I’ve only watched one game’s highlights about Ward so I’m still way too ignorant to formulate an opinion yet, but my only observation from that game is that I hate his throwing motion, looks so weird. And he seems to move around lethargically, no pep in his step. But that’s not a deal breaker or anything, I’ll do much more thorough research later in the year when there’s a lot more game to comb through.

Like I said before, we should sit on him for a while…probably until the offseason while the memory of just how bad and hopeless he is fades and hope we can dupe another team into overpaying for him. All these other “resurgences” have nothing to do with Bryce because none of them looked nearly as bad as Bryce at any point in their careers. Not Zach Wilson, not Sam Darnold, not even Jamarcus Russell who never had a resurgence. They all had something to point at and say “well he can do this well, maybe if he just learned the other stuff”. There is not a single thing Bryce does that isn’t bad bad. His supposed strengths were processing (he’s bad) and accuracy (I always said he was bad, even in college. That’s the fallacy of looking at completion % as an indicator of accuracy) and he’s actually terrible at both.

We could lose to the Bengals, it could happen. They look bad but they have talent. I said in the updated predictions thread I could optimistically see us getting to 6-2, more realistically he’ll probably get a couple more wins til his first loss.

Yea there were a couple misses in blocking by TEs but overall did really well. I noticed a lot more times they slowed down the rusher enough to allow the play to develop

I mean, IF Tepper forced the Bryce pick then yea, he deserves to be criticized for it and deserves all the ire he’s gotten. It’s still just a rumor, no matter how many times it’s repeated as if it was a fact.

I’m not trying to pick on you or anything bud, but this take and similar ones have been driving me up a wall. The franchise isn’t drafting, developing or rehabilitating QBs. A small collection of individuals are. Those individuals that were responsible for fumbling Darnold and Baker are gone. The individuals responsible for drafting and developing Bryce his rookie year are gone. Our next QB, Plummer, and anything current or future has nothing to do with previous regimes. Even the one common thread that everyone likes to point at, the owner, isn’t out there going through footwork drills with Bryce or anything like that. He’s made some bad decisions, it happens. Richardson made a LOT too. At this early point it looks like maybe third time’s a charm though.

fug you Florio. Bryce should have done right by the team and worked on his craft. He won’t flourish anywhere cuz he’s trash.

If not apology, at least an “I was wrong”. Pat was close to that, but not quite. What I really want to hear from people is “I was wrong about Bryce Young. He actually was the problem.” but I know I’m not going to get that

He doesn’t apologize, but at least he backtracked and says maybe the team isn’t so bad.