“It was a 30-17 lead!” Greg, that’s only a 13 point deficit.

First was totally scrapping the run game ala The Broncos game. We are very suspect against the pass, but atleast we’re shutting down the run for the most part. The TE situation is becoming the new Long snapper situation, better fix it fast it just cost us the game two fumbles and some drops.

hate the ratbirds

That’s big time from Favre. I don’t like the guy, but that’s clutch.

I knew he wouldn’t let them lose

Isn’t it nice to see a quarterback who can get his ass out of the pocket and still not give up on the play?

favre should be bombing

They’re lining up for the FG without even trying for the TD.

Houston played its game plan to perfection. We didn’t take away any weapon – the 3 guy we knew we had to worry about were Andre Johnson, Owen Daniels, and Steve Slaton. We did not tackle. We let the weapons make plays all day.

On offense, we had a great second quarter. But that’s the only quarter we played well at all. The first quarter was marred by 3 awful blocking penalties that killed drives. In the second half, more bad things happened. Daniel Coats and Foschi’s fumbles were equally terrible. Carson was not finding his wide receivers. 3 and outs were rampant. At the end of the game, it sounds like the interception was pretty awful too. Not that chances of winning were great, but that was the third bad turnover that took potential points off the board for us. A lot of our problems came at midfield – penalties, turnovers, whatever.

The running game never got going. Cedric Benson had only a few carries – something like 15 – on the entire game. The offensive line failed against the 4-3 front, and no one was getting to the second level to take DeMeco Ryans out of plays. Outside of that, Mario Williams made our tackles look abysmal.

The defense, meanwhile, was awful. Most of Houston’s big plays came on dump-offs and poor tackling and poor block shedding led to big plays. Two interceptions were dropped, and the Texans fumbled the ball out of bounds a couple times too.

We lost the field position game too. They started drives between the 35 and 40 all day, and we were, at best, starting around the 20.

No one played well for the Bengals today outside of the second quarter.

and they really got rattled today, causing them to lose the game. This one stings, but hopefully they’ll return to that desparate team that won four games in a row. It’s all about desparation with this team. They are not gonna win by coasting – they are not that kind of team on either side of the ball.

almost in fg range

Terrible. Now a FG beats you.

ravens lose

Vikings win.

I feel like a winner now

the loss of odom killlllled us.

Math Lesson for PALEWOOK Since you couldn’t understand what I was saying about Schaub, I will try to explain it without the use of poly-syllabic words and/or sentences with more than one idea.

This Year. Schaub top 3. Touchdowns. Yards.
Last Year. Schaub hurt. Schaub miss 5 game. Schaub throw 276 yards per game. As starter, Schaub top 5.

Now I know the idea that as a starter he has been in the top 5 across categories is difficult for you to digest, but it remains a fact.

Last year he ended up in the low teens OVERALL because he missed 5 games.

Comprende amigo? Or is the math still getting to you?

He missed a ton of tackles throughout the game. Can Jeanty play his position?

No reason the Bengals couldn’t have hung with this team today. They let up. Again.

Very hard to win a game when you lose your two best defensive linemen before the first quarter is over. Good luck the rest of the way. Hope they aren’t too banged up.

they rally after this loss like they did after week 1.

and please, get chris henry more involved.

…still available?

Is there anyway we land both?

There is no doubt that our defensive MVP last year and this year is Zim. Our defense goes as Zim goes. Is it possible that with all that is going on in his life right now his heart wasn’t in it? I think so. If Zim comes out flat, our defense is flat as well. Zim is on a hangover. It’s understandable. Let’s hope he recovers soon.

How long is the NFL going to allow the Texans to play so dirty?

good lord we had a ton of them. who knows what would have happened if we kept some of those drives going. once again, i wish henry got his number called more, but no matter how you shake it up, our receivers have to do a better job catching the football.

But losing Odom and Peko, the former potentially for the year is pretty damn galling. Would not be a Bengal season without a few injuries, we are suffering because of a lack of production from the TE spot but have not exactly gone out of our way to change this, we also missed Brian Leonard on third downs.

Gave up on the run pretty quickly too, playcalling was as piss poor as usual but yeah, the injuries hurt more than anything else.

Steve Slaton was the type of back we have problems with, so it proved. Shifty guys hurt us, we bit so hard on play-action all day it wasnt funny. Some of the tackling at LB/DB is shockingly bad but there again it is for the entire NFL not just the Bengals.

Really hope the front four can remain a force but if the injuries are as bad as first reported this could be back to 08 pressure on the QB.

But too difficult to say he lost us the game. We found new and interesting ways to fumble the ball but too many times we had players isolated, one fumble, I think it was Foschis, it was him v five defenders.

Pretty much everything that could have gone against us did, injuries, turnovers, players not playing up to expectation or worse, the TEs living down to their reputation, calls.

Perhaps it was the football gods evening things out, we had some luck in our four wins,