06-01-2023, 08:52 PM
(06-01-2023, 02:00 AM)jason Wrote: I said it when folks were claiming Tee Higgins is expendable because "Joe Burrow". That game changed the moment Boyd went out.
(06-01-2023, 11:04 AM)Wyche Wrote: Yes, we learned the difference between TB and his replacement that night. No one was able to get open underneath consistently. With our shoddy online play, Joe needed that quick hitter to keep the chains moving.
If the O Line was competent, the run & screen game would have been HUGE with the Chiefs doubling the outside w Safeties like that. This was more about that falling apart than Boyd going down. The Bengals had no 3rd option past that.
I was there in the front row behind the Bengals bench for both of the AFCCGs.... On the last Bengals drive there was a play on their last 2nd down before they punted where Higgins & Irwin lined up on the left. Both guys cut their routes in, but Joe through an out that would have been a 1st and, if I recall, put the Bengals on the Chiefs side of the field or really close to that. One of the 2 WRs got their call wrong because Joe threw to open air on the sideline - no one even near that side of the field, which would have also stopped the clock if caught.
Boyd would have changed that game for sure, but when he went down, so would an avg O line. It was just a catastrophy of misfortune that entire game... And the Chiefs STILL needed a FG at the gun to win. Bengals will be AMAZING this season. I can feel it.
