tsylvester

The Bengals played a simple defense today, zone mostly, especially in the first half, man later. They rarely blitzed until the game got "close", even then, the line had trouble holding up to 4 rushers. Brown had trouble KNOWING, who to throw to based on the coverage. In the 2nd half, the Bengals left the middle wide open, going with a single high safety or split safeties, leaning more on covering the underneath routes. It is why Sammy was able to take advantage of single coverage down the sidelines with those stop/back shoulder throws we have been waiting for, for years. Because of the coversge, a look to either side left the tightend wide open down/over the middle, Brown never saw it. He should have, if he knew the routes and saw the single high safety; big plays. With all of that said, next week I expect more complicated coverage, & blitzes. Huntely can't throw deep because of his shoulder, and perhaps that is why he never took advantage down the sidelines like Brown had. For that matter, Lamar has only tried that throw a few times over the years, only hit 1 or two. Usually his pass sails out of bounds. Speaking of Lamar, yes, I said Huntely or Brown, I don't expect Lamar to play, I would be pleasantly surprised if he did, but what can we expect after 6,7 weeks off? Maybe this game taught Brown something, his arm is stronger, he had a lot of drops, 2 picks, one his fault, the other not. His fumble, while a stupid decision to have him throw down there, was his fault, 7 big points before half. You have to get rid of the ball quickly down there, a holding call in the endzone is a safety, linemen can only hold up for so long, feel the pressure. Me, I would go with Brown, he has the better arm and is willing to stretch the field.

Well not sure Burrow over throws a wide open receiver for a touchdown, nor two receivers drop sure tds. But one things is for sure, the Ravens were hitting harder today than I've seen in a while. Hope they keep it up next week

Yeah, how did they get a safety? Fix was in I tell ya. No bath bombs for you

10 seconds left. Next week is going to be intersting.. game over, 27-16

Drake bobbles but hangs on for 11

Kolar with his 3rd catch, for 6, Drake drops one over the middle. I know it was only his first game, but, Kolar with another catch for 14 on 3rd and four. But Kolar does not seem very fast

4 turnovers, one turnover on downs, and they still only gave up 27 pts, most in the first half when the Bengals had short fields. Very, very impressive performance by the defense to only lose by apparently, 11..

Smith with another tackle along with a few others, 4th down

I bet crav is a bath bomb, jazz bath guy, not that there is anything wrong with that....

2 mins

Robinson and Watkins are two players who rarely run with the ball high & tight. Still, I feel bad for Sammy, how I love ya, how I love my dear old Sammy...

3:10 left, Bengals have 12 yards of offense this quarter. Deep pass to Watkins who runs for more yards then is gang tackled, stripped, Bengals ball

4th down, Smith, Queens and Hamilton on the stop. Smith appears fine, just dinged, more smelling salts, man I miss those things, talk about clearing out the sinuses

Williams streaks in to make a tackle for a 2 yard loss, 3rd and 18

Timeout Bengals. Hats off to the defense, they got lucky a few times with an over throw on a wide open receiver, two dropped touchdowns, albeit with tight coverage. Still, major pressure on Burrow just from 4 rushers, leading to errant passes, a sack, fumble, short throws

Brown rolls right, throws it low and out of bounds. Middle of the field was wide open, as was Likely. His crossing route based on the coverage should have had him as the first read. Turnover on downs

Robinson hit right in the chest, he drops it

Phins win, Stillers are out of the playoffs, refs stay with call on the field, Ravens out of time outs

The ball can rotate, his wrists rotate

Not sure there is enough to over turn

Brown throws very low to Robinson,it's a catch, but ruled incomplete

Drake for one

Bengals have 6 yards of offense this quarter. Complete for 13 to Robinson

Fight fight, these teams hate each other. RAVENS BALL!

Miami hits a 50 yarder, take a 9-6 18 seconds left