09-13-2022, 01:33 PM
(09-13-2022, 01:28 PM)ElkValleyBengal Wrote: Not discouraged at all. I still believe this team is an 11+ win team, assuming injuries don't derail that. Going on the premise that a team has a quota of bad plays and mistakes per season, they shouldn't have all that many left after Sunday.
The o-line will gel and by mid-season be one of the better units in the conference, if not the league I feel- assuming they stay on the field.
Joe Burrow is still Joe Burrow, and he won't play that badly again this year.
Tee Higgins will be back, and Hayden Hurst presents a better receiving threat at TE than the Bengals have had since Eifert.
You figure they can't lose another starting long-snapper.
The defense is really solid I think. The Steelers were well under 200 yards for the game in regulation. As the offense begins to click, the sacks and hurries will come as teams are forced to play catch-up.
Nice post ElkValleyBengal. Agree with everything you say here. Sucks losing to the stealers worse than any other team but
maybe we needed to just get this one out of the way early. Really love what I saw of our Defense under Lou like you said.
