Bengals Defense Shutdown Ravens Receiving Weapons

HAH That’s a great nickname.

The only reason to try a pass on 2nd and 1 is to try a long bomb. A short pass as a checkdown pass only after the long ball isn’t there is OK too. But a pass of short or intermediate length on 2nd-and-1 on purpose is just flat retarded.

2nd-and-1 is play action city. It’s like a free down to try to go for the big strike. Pity Brat isn’t aware of this.

there is no reason this offense shouldn’t score 24-30 points a game…

Without Bratkowski? Probably. With him? It’d take a miracle.

Isn’t it Zimmer, man!

The Ravens won the Super Bowl with what’s-his-face. The Steelers have won it with nothing from Ben (albeit they got a lot of help from the officials!)

If you have a solid defense and a good offensive scheme that’s sufficient, you don’t need the Hall of Fame QB to win a Super Bowl.

The penalties are not Carson’s fault, that’s on the entire coaching staff and they haven’t fixed it in more than one year! The main deficiency is Bratkowski’s play calling and (lack of) halftime adjustments. The main weakness on offense is the line is pretty shaky, so the coaches need to scheme around it. Bratkowski’s pea-brain can’t do it.

ZIMMER has to deal with the very same weakness — Football Outsiders ranked the Bengals defensive line as one of the worst units in the NFL, but Zimmer uses the good cornerbacks and blitzes to somewhat cover up for that (they get no pass rush without blitzing, and even have a hard time generating one with blitzing)

I like Palmer, but he needs to step his game up. He had 60.1 passer rating today-16-35 completions. His uneasiness is becoming apparent. The one play he didn’t know what was going on, Cook looked awful too. Palmer was inaccurate and hesitated to check down thus losing several potential 3-5yd gains. T.O. and Ocho both dropped catchable TD passes. I think Palmer needs to realize his time is running out to do something great. Bratworst is awful, yet he’s here. I think we’ll see some improvement next week….at least I hope so

You and too many other people on this site seem to think that if Palmer doesn’t have a 100% completion game or if every pass he throws doesn’t hit every receiver square in the numbers that he stinks.
You talk about checkdowns – if he doesn’t think the deep receivers are open or that he won’t have time to wait for them to get open what else is he supposed to do.
Audibles – Brat sucks and it doesn’t seem like Palmer has any confidence in his play calling.
Delay of game – I’ll give 50% fault to Palmer, the other 50% to Brat sucks. You have to get the play into the QB fast enough for him to be able to make changes and you’d like to think that at least about 75% of the time you called the right play in the first place.
False Starts – What are they supposed to do? Go on hut one because you have professional football players that can’t remember a snap count? If there were multiple guys jumping I could see that Palmer might be at fault, but it seems that it’s almost always just that one.

I keep seeing people complaining about the wide open receivers that he missed, in particular Chad in the endzone. I said it in previous posts; but if any of you have the game taped watch it again. When Chad reversed his route and the defender lost his footing, Chad threw up his hand while he was running, Palmer threw the ball to a running Chad, Chad slowed down (I would guess) because he thought Palmer was going to throw it directly at him. Just a miscommunication. Was I pissed we didn’t get the TD, oh yeah. Does it seem like this kind of thing happens a lot, oh yeah. Is it necessarily all Palmers fault, oh no.
Now I know some of you are thinking, “what about the overthrows to TO?” The one out of the back of the endzone – horrible throw. The one on the sidelines just at the endzone – watch the replay, TO lets off his route just as he muscles past his receiver.
What about the under thrown ball to TO in the endzone? It was under thrown but still catchable (it did bounce off his helmet.) Could it have been better thrown, absolutely. But it wasn’t horrible.
What about the 20 yd hook that Palmer under threw badly to TO near the beginning of the game? Was it really that bad or was it thrown to a 15 yard hook when the receiver ran a 20 yard hook? ‘Cause that is a timing play and it looked like a pretty good ball to a 15 yard hook. I don’t know what the route was supposed to be so I don’t know if it was a bad throw or bad route.
I know some will think that I’m watching Palmer through rose colored glasses and maybe I am. But what I am trying to do here is point out that not every incompletion, perceived bad throw or game management mistake is always Palmers fault.