The Bengals fought hard, but fell to the Patriots in New England, a tough place to enter and win, as nearly every team in the NFL can attest to. The Patriots were 77-0 when leading at halftime at home coming into today’s game, and now have extended that streak to 78-0. The Patriots have also now won six straight regular season home games against the Bengals, and have not lost at home against Cincinnati since 1986. The Bengals were going to need to play a flawless game to win in New England, and though they looked improved from their tough loss in Dallas last week, they didn’t do enough to beat the Patriots, and they didn’t play a flawless game:
Ogbuehi hold led to safety
— Lance McAlister (@LanceMcAlister) October 16, 2016
Dre penalty led to TD
Jones penalty led to FG#Bengals
A lot of that had to do with second half adjustments that the Patriots made, while the adjustments made on Cincinnati’s end clearly didn’t work as well. The Bengals only trailed by three with a 10-7 score heading into halftime, but while they added 10 points in the second half, the Patriots added 25. The final New England touchdown came in garbage time, but, it’s still a score that the Bengals allowed.
Here’s a collection of social media reactions, thoughts and quotes that followed the Bengals’ fourth loss of the season in New England.
#Patriots Tom Brady has nearly 800 passing yards in only 2 games, 6 TDs, 0 INTs, 76 completion %.
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) October 16, 2016
Those pointing fingers at Dalton are showing their football IQ. If not for Dalton, this #Bengals team is 0-6 with 6 blowouts. Pt 1
— Scott Bantel (@ScottBantel) October 16, 2016
Pt2... Dalton has kept them in striking distance every game. If you think Dalton is the problem, you need a new tube tv.
— Scott Bantel (@ScottBantel) October 16, 2016
Hate seeing my Bengals lose back to back games. Plenty of talent and I'm hoping we can put multiple wins together! Any input guys? #Whodey
— Reggie Kelly (@ReggieKelly82) October 16, 2016
Bengals have lost back to back uncommon games for the first time.
— Joe (@JoeGoodberry) October 16, 2016
Average teams play relatively well and lose to a contending teams 35-17. The #Bengals hope to be an average team (4-4) heading into the bye
— James Rapien (@JamesRapien) October 16, 2016
Bad news: Bengals are 2-4. Good news: the hard part of the schedule is over. Very possible Bengals come out of next stretch at 7-4
— Braden Whited (@BradenWhited) October 16, 2016
Well, the Cleveland Browns are coming to town October 23 #WhoDey
— Mark Slaughter (@MarkVSlaughter) October 16, 2016
"a happy homecoming for tom brady"
— John Sheeran (@john__sheeran) October 16, 2016
almost as if it was planned
Tom Brady's Facebook is better than yours. pic.twitter.com/Vh1q0u8c8N
— James Rapien (@JamesRapien) October 16, 2016
Browns will enter Cincinnati with an 0-6 record next week. #WhoDey
— Jeremy Rauch (@FOX19Jeremy) October 16, 2016
Marv: we're going to go for it inside the 1 vs anyone anywhere early in the game.
— Geoff Hobson (@GeoffHobsonCin) October 16, 2016
Disappointing because we had chances to win it
— Geoff Hobson (@GeoffHobsonCin) October 16, 2016
Marv: post game: we're our own Achilles heel. We have to coach it out of us
— Geoff Hobson (@GeoffHobsonCin) October 16, 2016
Marv: Both teams seem frustrated, not necessarily our guys
— Geoff Hobson (@GeoffHobsonCin) October 16, 2016
Lewis on pulling Ogbuehi: "Felt he needed to settle down. Wanting Winston to help settle is down."
— Paul Dehner Jr. (@pauldehnerjr) October 16, 2016
that....was a frustrated Marvin Lewis.
— Lance McAlister (@LanceMcAlister) October 16, 2016
All of these close NFL games.
— Joe (@JoeGoodberry) October 16, 2016
And then the Bengals have lost by double digits to four playoff teams.
Marvin says Bodine will get a scan on his ankle. @700wlw #Bengals
— Lance McAlister (@LanceMcAlister) October 16, 2016
Bengals lose in an ugly game today. But so did the Steelers, Ravens and Browns. @journalnews
— Ed Richter (@Richter_Journal) October 16, 2016
You would think it'd be church-like quiet in Bengals locker room. It's not. Lots of laughing and joking.
— Mike Petraglia (@Trags) October 16, 2016
Asked Marvin Lewis about Gronk "Yeah, we didn't do a good job" pic.twitter.com/8MybkVZvQ0
— Mike Petraglia (@Trags) October 16, 2016
Pacman and Kirkpatrick made a bee-line to Bengals locker room and didn't participate in handshakes.
— Mike Petraglia (@Trags) October 16, 2016
Last time #Bengals scored fewer than 24 points for more than 6 straight weeks was 2008. They didn't top 23 the entire season.
— Lance McAlister (@LanceMcAlister) October 16, 2016
Brady: "We got off to a slow start and ended up with 35 points. So, not bad." #Patriots #Bengals #GarbageTDIncluded
— Enquirer Sports (@ENQSports) October 16, 2016
Bennett said Burfict apologized and said he didn't mean to get him in the back of the knee but added, "But he probably did."
— Jeff Howe (@jeffphowe) October 16, 2016
Gronk asked about chippiness: "Things get a little heated." Said there he wasn't really saying much, got flagged for bobbing head.
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) October 16, 2016
Fought harder but have to finish the game! We are 2-4 #WhoDey
— Carlos Dunlap (@Carlos_Dunlap) October 16, 2016
The beginnings of the T.J. Johnson Era for Cincinnati? #Bengals
— Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) October 16, 2016
Patriots sideline communications/headsets today were a disaster. Team eventually threw up hands as it wasn't getting better.
— Tom E. Curran (@tomecurran) October 16, 2016
Unsurprisingly, #Patriots Tom Brady has been more successful at home than everyother QB in NFL history. He added another W today vs #Bengals pic.twitter.com/QVlutpTQVr
— StatsCentre (@StatsCentre) October 16, 2016