Playcalling Yesterday

Yeah Gibbs had said that they had added time onto practices to work on the passing game...so apparently Gibbs was testing the waters and seeing if they could establish the pass early to get the Bengals off of their game plan. Unfortunately, this played right into the hands of the Bengals because Brunnell really stunk up the place! Of course he wasn't the only one..there were a few pass from him right on target that were dropped.

The offense was so terrible it was tough to get into a rhythm. When you are constantly in 3rd and long running the ball doesn't work. They took some shots down field for once and nothing hit. I don't think they abandoned the run at all. Our offense was just so bad they didn't have more than 1 first down on a series forever so they didn't run that many plays until the d tighetened up in the secodn half.

I'm surprised Portis was able to get as many rushing yards as he did yesterday.

Gibbs and the Geritol Gentlemen coached against themselves. What idiots! They saw that CIN was near the bottom in the league in rushing defense and near the top at points off turnovers and with our passing offense and QB rating being the worst we were going to throw on every down to start the game?

I'm surprised Portis was able to get as many rushing yards as he did yesterday.


Yeah in all seriousness, he still played a damn good game with the carries he got.

i have to say , if the game plan was to throw the ball to loosen up the d , well thats a dumbass game plan. cinci is dead last against the run, they should have run the ball, run the ball and then run the ball a little more, play field position. i know gibbs was just trying to get brunell in a groove early in the game but come on , has gibbs been paying attention to brunell's LOUSY EFFIN PLAYING? don't come out throwing the ball when the score is 0-0, especially against the leagues worst defense ( against the run ) bad mistake on gibbs.