Bengals @ WFT postgame thread

Congrats to the football team for handling business after Burrow went out. I suspect if he had played the entire game we might be discussing a different result. Good luck to the kid as I'm not hearing anything good about his injury. Hope it's just a simple ACL tear and not something worse.

Shoutout to the d-line for handling business with Finley in there. I still think JDR needs to be more creative because the game plan with bonafide starting qb's in there seems to be attack us with quick passes for small gains so we don't have time to rush the passer.

No easy answers on offense but it seems like they got energized after Burrow's injury, guessing they wanted to take advantage of the Bengals being demoralized by losing Burrow.

Hopkins - I see the replace Hopkins movement is picking up steam, my question is - if you know he's playing with an injury that might be affecting his field goal kicks why not stick him on IR and sign a temp replacement? For the most part of his career he's been reliable and idw replace him because he's not that good playing through injury.

Darby needs to be re-signed.

Add a legit FS and LB. Defense could be real nice next year.

Get a real No. 1 TE. 2nd or 3rd round or a GOOD free agent.

The WR core is growing on me but probably need to add 1 more weapon there.

Gibson was nice today.

Congrats to the football team for handling business after Burrow went out. I suspect if he had played the entire game we might be discussing a different result. Good luck to the kid as I'm not hearing anything good about his injury. Hope it's just a simple ACL tear and not something worse.

Shoutout to the d-line for handling business with Finley in there. I still think JDR needs to be more creative because the game plan with bonafide starting qb's in there seems to be attack us with quick passes for small gains so we don't have time to rush the passer.

No easy answers on offense but it seems like they got energized after Burrow's injury, guessing they wanted to take advantage of the Bengals being demoralized by losing Burrow.

Hopkins - I see the replace Hopkins movement is picking up steam, my question is - if you know he's playing with an injury that might be affecting his field goal kicks why not stick him on IR and sign a temp replacement? For the most part of his career he's been reliable and idw replace him because he's not that good playing through injury.

I’ll pushback on Hopkins. He’s been inconsistent for us even when healthy. At the very least we should’ve brought in stronger competition the last few seasons. My problem is he’s missed a few clutch kicks; notably the OT kick in London against the Bengals. If he’s injured, he should be on IR, because we’ll be in some close games coming down the stretch this year.

The Burrow injury was definitely an accident, Jonathan Allen was wrestled down by a Bengal OL into Burrows leg. Here’s the video:

https://youtu.be/6hnVvGvdvFc

The Burrow injury was definitely an accident, Jonathan Allen was wrestled down by a Bengal OL into Burrows leg. Here’s the video:

https://youtu.be/6hnVvGvdvFc

That's what happens when your shitty o-line has to tackle a guy to prevent him from reaching the qb. Joe Burrow is the latest example of a team failing to protect a rookie qb with a solid offensive line, and now it's gonna cost the Bengals for the rest of the season at least.

I’ll pushback on Hopkins. He’s been inconsistent for us even when healthy. At the very least we should’ve brought in stronger competition the last few seasons. My problem is he’s missed a few clutch kicks; notably the OT kick in London against the Bengals. If he’s injured, he should be on IR, because we’ll be in some close games coming down the stretch this year.

I mean if your best example is a missed kick from 4 years ago that's not good enough for me.

And I'd be more concerned with him consistently missing clutch kicks if we fielded anything better than a dumpster fire team the last few years. I remember the days when we were trying out new kickers every week and guys like Graham Gano couldn't get a touchback on a kickoff to save their life, now we take that for granted every week.

I think if he's injured they should've put him on IR and done some tryouts, but it's too late for that already.

That's what happens when your shitty o-line has to tackle a guy to prevent him from reaching the qb. Joe Burrow is the latest example of a team failing to protect a rookie qb with a solid offensive line, and now it's gonna cost the Bengals for the rest of the season at least.

This

Bengals fans are going bananas about the ownership, front office, HC, and Oline. Didn't see more very many comments about calling it dirty. That LG has apparently been wrecked all season.

Not our guys' faults. Just shitty circumstances/luck. He has torn ACL at a minimum. That's shitty.

I mean if your best example is a missed kick from 4 years ago that's not good enough for me.

And I'd be more concerned with him consistently missing clutch kicks if we fielded anything better than a dumpster fire team the last few years. I remember the days when we were trying out new kickers every week and guys like Graham Gano couldn't get a touchback on a kickoff to save their life, now we take that for granted every week.

I think if he's injured they should've put him on IR and done some tryouts, but it's too late for that already.

We don't need to go back 4 years. He's missed a kick in 7 out of 10 games this year including 2 which could have definitely changed the outcome of those games. I think he has the 2nd lowest kicking percentage in the league. He needs to go. The problem is, at this point, who the heck is out there that is going to be any better.

And this team is far from a dumpster fire...