Bengals Packers Preseason Game One Observations

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(08-13-2023, 11:28 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Ok, I went back and watched the first half again yesterday evening. And a few points: Jackson Carman stinks! Like the 3rd play of our first offensive series he stayed in a 3 point stance like 2 seconds after ball was snapped while two defenders went right by unblocked. It was like a scene out of the bad news bears or something? "which way did he go"?

Iosivas had a couple nice catches and probably should have had a 3rd but it's hard to catch the ball when you're already being tackled 2 seconds before the ball gets there. No PI of course. It's early I know but I bet he makes the 53.

Tufele had several really nice plays shoving the pile even when being double teamed. And some of those plays were early and G.B. was playing a lot of their starters in 1st qtr.

The PI in the end zone giving them TD was a very ticky tack call. And then few plays later Iosivas was raped - crickets. But it's preseason so whatever?

20 Turner and 27 Battle both had some nice tackles and plays. And got burnt some as well.

I'm going to watch 2nd half today and see what's up?

That play in the first quarter was a complete communications mess-up between Browning and Trey Hill. Carman wasn't alone in not reacting - three other linemen likewise were nonplussed. Looked like Hill snapped before the correct spot in the snap count. 

I agree on the PI that gifted GB a TD - that was REALLY ticky tack. But then again the refs were bad all night. And yes Iosivas was in. Defensively aside from the bad ref calls we also were incredibly vanilla on both sides - and Lou's defense is built on being the opposite of vanilla.