Cincinnati Bengals Links and Notes: We Play to the Competition (3-1) 10/5/09
by jsl413 on Oct 5, 2009 7:15 AM EDT
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Consistently this year, the Bengals have played to the level of the competition. That's great when you're playing teams that are good every week (such as the Steelers and Packers), but terrible when you play teams that you should easily handle (the Browns or the Broncos who, even though they're 4-0, are a very beatable team). More often than not, this has produced wins for Carson's Cardiac Cats.
Major storylines yesterday:
- Carson Palmer sucks! Also, he convinced Marvin Lewis to go for it on 4th and 10.
- Carson Palmer has stepped up when it counts, and has led 3 (should be 4) game winning drives this season. I understand your cynicism, but we're 3-1 and leading the AFCN!
- The defense has scored touchdowns in consecutive weeks. Also, Brad St. Louis has cost the Bengals points in consecutive weeks.
- The Bengals played down to the Browns. The offense stunk it up for 60-70% of the game, and the Bengals lost time of possession after the Browns possessed the ball for just over a minute in the first quarter.
- Josh Cribbs gashed the Bengals. If we kick it to him ONCE when the Browns visit PBS, I'll be irate.
- The UC Bearcats are #8 in the AP poll. The Cincinnati Reds finished the season 78-84, a 4-game improvement over last year. It was a pretty good weekend for Cincinnati sports.
Anyway, my job is not to recap the game. Here's what professional recappers around the professional media are saying:
- Cincinnati.com was active following the Bengals' dramatic win. John Eradi #1: "Hardly a snap for St. Louis." A piece highlighting Brad St. Louis, currently an object of CincyJungle animosity. John Eradi #2: "Geathers gathers a touchdown." Leon Hall and Robert Geathers break down how the fumble was forced, and how it turned into a TD. Bengals Notebook: "Cribbs does number on Bengals." Without looking, I think he accounted for almost as many yards as the rest of the Browns offense. Joe Reedy's Recap: "Bengals beat Browns in OT." Strong recap with a local edge. I don't even know how one would go about covering this team's ups and downs (all in a single game) right now. Props to the local journalists for figuring it out!
- If you like flair, read Paul Daugherty's recap. "Regardless, winning is the only thing in the NFL. And we want style points? From this franchise? Next thing you know, you’re going to expect them to make the playoffs or something." Look at that flair.
- From Bengals.com: Geoff "Brainwash" Hobson's recap and post-game quotes.
- AFCN Blogger James Walker is busy in Pittsburgh with the Steelers-Charges game. He still manages to write a blurb about the Bengals-Browns game (although I doubt he watched any of it until overtime, or if Baltimore was on a commercial). Walker kindly includes the Countdown Daily video recap of the game.
- Doug Farrar at Yahoo's shutdown corner thinks the Bengals are for real. This is probably the most unique reaction to the squeeky victory in Cleveland today. Then again, the Bengals did find a way to win the game, and they were on the road, and Cleveland is an "NFL" team that came out playing hard. A win is a win.
Not much going on regarding this game. Bengals should beat Browns. Bengals beat browns. There we have it.
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couple of thoughts
1) Brad St. Louis. Its past time. He should have been gone after last week. Do we actually have to lose because of one of his snaps? Wait, it already happened in week 1.
2) Cardiac Cats. About time we started calling them that. Been referring to them as Cardiac Cats after week 2. Seen SI/NFL trying to stick different tags on the Bengals after yesterday’s game. Like the sound of “Drama Queens” or “Drama Kings?” If we let the national outlets name the bengals this season, it won’t be flattering. Embrace the Cardiac Cats, unless you like nickname the Cincinnati Drama Kings.
3) Brat. Could another Offensive Cord in the NFL do less with all the talent and tools the Bengals possess on the offensive roster? Ok, its not Brat’s fault that Laveranues Coles needs to legally change his name to Laveranues Colds, but for the rest of the mess on the field, Brat bares some of the responsibility. Hell, Brat deserves most of the credit for what we’ve done on offense. Any chance he’ll be replaced in the off season? A fan can hope. Like we have been for a couple of seasons..
by palewook on Oct 5, 2009 9:04 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
anyone know a site that lists wr drops in their stats?
curious to see if coles has more drops than receptions in 2009, checked rotoworld, espn, cbs, nfl, none list drops among receiver stats.
‘colds’ has 10 receptions in 2009, figure he has at least 8 official drops, perhaps more.
by palewook on Oct 5, 2009 9:13 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Meant to say something yesterday but didn't have the chance,
did anyone else notice on one of Carson and Chad’s misconnections that the DB was holding Chad’s jersey for the entire friggin’ route? I mean if I could see it on my iPhone why wasn’t it called? I don’t remember exactly when it was (had a ton of stuff going on yesterday), it was sometime either in the 4th quarter or in OT. The guy was hanging on for dear life.
by A Pragmatic Bengals Fan on Oct 5, 2009 9:18 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Was that the one where after he got up and was looking at the refs and tugging on his jersey and pointing to someone?
I really would love to see them actually air the ball out. Isn’t that the purpose of establishing an effective running game? I’d love to see an actual deep ball. Maybe just my penchant for those plays.
by Avatar on Oct 5, 2009 10:21 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Carson tried to throw a deep ball
yesterday to Henry. It was awful. He threw it off of his back leg when there was no pressure. It floated in the air and was almost picked!!! Henry was wide open about 30 yards down field. A tight rope throw would have been perfect. It seems like he was scared of stepping forward and following through with his throws. This happened most of the game.Is his elbow bothering him or did he lose some of his arm strength? A lot of his other throws were way off because of throwing off his back leg too. And for the DB holding Chad’s jersey, yea he had a hold on it, on that TD drop. When you get bad ref’s you have too overcome adversity. Which the Bengals usually never seem to do in the past years.
by WHYUS!! on Oct 5, 2009 11:03 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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