{ Postgame Reactions Thread - Week 2 }

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(09-17-2023, 05:29 PM)Bengalion Wrote: The D-line is the biggest loser today. 0 sacks, almost no pressure on Lamar, we had no answer to counter their running game. Thought Reader and Hill would be enough but I was wrong. Also it's worth noting that Chase did next to nothing today, he dropped a TD and what? Was expecting more from him. And Jonah Willians proved again he's not the answer at RT.

Burrow will have basically 9 days to heal his calf before we face the Rams. I'm fine with a wild card spot at this point, we're not winning this division this year.

To be fair, they had one excellent and well-timed sack -- that was wiped out by one of the most bogus holding calls that I'd ever seen. Odell Beckman, Jr. blatantly grabs the jersey of the defender, pulls him down, and the defender is called for a hold? That wiped out the sack. 

The announcers liked to make a point of the subsequent "make-up" holding calls on the Ravens, but who knows how things would have transpired if the bogus, automatic first-down holding call on the Bengals is not made. Sure, if the Ravens were stopped on the 3rd down, then Tucker would have made the FG, but the Bengals would have also had time to score before the half.