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Week 2: Bengals @ Browns

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Average yards per play was 9.5 to 4.7. 9.5 would've lead the league by a lot and 4.7 would've been 30th. Browns really dominated much of the game. Burrow was at 5.2 yards per attempts and when you factor in sacks, Bengals were under 5 per pass play. That is just really good by the Browns.

5 for 5 on 4th down is obviously unacceptable, but also not sustainable. Bengals also had a 30+ yard advantage in penalties and 3 times started at the 39 or better after a kick. All that and Cincy still needed a garbage time TD to keep it within single digits.

This was a really good performance in many facets, and much of the stuff that went wrong is correctable. Secondary is still ass, but when you're down 4 starters in your back 7, that will happen.

I am encouraged. Way more than I was after we beat the Jets in week 2 last year.

I like to compare last year to this year because week 1 in both years was so similar.

Great point on last year’s Jets games versus this game. A much better performance from the Browns - it was the offensive system our head coach promised, Bengals didn’t shoot themselves in the foot a couple times like the Jets did, and of course the Browns put up 35 points, not 20ish. Just a much more comprehensive bounce back win compared to week 2 last year.
 
I like to compare last year to this year because week 1 in both years was so similar.

Great point on last year’s Jets games versus this game. A much better performance from the Browns - it was the offensive system our head coach promised, Bengals didn’t shoot themselves in the foot a couple times like the Jets did, and of course the Browns put up 35 points, not 20ish. Just a much more comprehensive bounce back win compared to week 2 last year.
Also, while Burrow is a rookie and the Bengals offense isn't that good, the Jets were down to QBs 2 and 3 that game. He is definitely better than Trevor Simien.
 
Glad we won and, arguably more importantly, glad the proper orange pants are back. What a joy to have a team that doesn't look like they suck anymore.

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Interested to see the brown pants in action as well. Not as sold on them as the rest of the look, but so glad the traditional duds are back. Anyway, WE DEY THINK GONNA BEAT DEM BENGALS!
 
Defensive PFF grades are in:


To nobody's surprise, Blowjobs Goodson and Sendejo got pooped on. Myles broke the charts. $$$ Mitch graded out a notch higher than Ward. Every year Mitchell starts the year as our fourth corner and every year he jumps into the starting lineup and more than holds his own.
 
Average yards per play was 9.5 to 4.7. 9.5 would've lead the league by a lot and 4.7 would've been 30th. Browns really dominated much of the game. Burrow was at 5.2 yards per attempts and when you factor in sacks, Bengals were under 5 per pass play. That is just really good by the Browns.

5 for 5 on 4th down is obviously unacceptable, but also not sustainable. Bengals also had a 30+ yard advantage in penalties and 3 times started at the 39 or better after a kick. All that and Cincy still needed a garbage time TD to keep it within single digits.

This was a really good performance in many facets, and much of the stuff that went wrong is correctable. Secondary is still ass, but when you're down 4 starters in your back 7, that will happen.

I am encouraged. Way more than I was after we beat the Jets in week 2 last year.

We all know we are lacking some talent on defense between injuries and defensive personnel, this team isn't ready yet to compete for a title.

But you are encouraged because for the first time in a very long time it looks like we have a coach who can simply put...coach. he called a good game, used our strengths and put our QB in a position to succeed and played to his strengths.

Week 1 shows us we have a way to go, but week 2 shows us we have come a long way and it looks like we have a very good captain to our ship.
 

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