NYJ DL Sheldon Richardson suspended for Bengals game

[Brownshoe]

(07-08-2016, 07:09 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: This "if you watch the game" crap is tired and weak, but since you still insist on arguing the same point:

Carr was injured right before halftime.  And with Carr, they got ZERO points....in their stadium....in week 1 of the NFL.  Looking at what the Raiders did to some other teams, it was a heck of an effort by the defense.  

Regardless what you say about the defense playing like "crap" against the Seahawks, they gave up 17 points to them.  The same Seahawks that put of 39 against the steelers and 38 against the Vikings.  17 points, and they shut them down on three straight drives to get the ball back to the offense, allowing for the comeback victory.  

As far as Alex Smith having his best day against the Bengals, he got ZERO TDs, and 21 points, all in FGs.  The chiefs were destroying teams at that point, and they still had Jamal Charles at that time of the season.  The Bengals defense held them to 21.  

Arizona put up huge numbers (and actual points, which is all that really matters) against Cincy after Burfict's return.  

The fact that you say they didn't play cupcakes (referring to the offenses on the other team) the second half of the season is questionable, when they played a hapless Browns team twice, a pathetic Rams team, and a horrible 49er team.  That's the 3 worst offenses in the league, played 4 out of 8 games.  

Sorry, shoe, I love Burfict too, but the defense played well with and without him. 

We still played a backup QB for more than half of the Raiders game, and anyways it was their first game with their rookie WR and 2nd year QB. The defense played alright, because it didn't have to stop a running game. The defense can't stop the run w/o Burfict, and that let's other teams exploit our defense.

The Seahawks were playing like crap at this point of the year. They started out the year 2-4 with one of their wins against the Lions where they knocked the ball out of Johnsons hand while he was reaching over the goal line. It's not like they were even playing well at that point of the season, and we still let them have about 200 yards rushing. The defense stepped up in the 4th quarter, but just playing well in one quarter doesn't mean anything.

Yeah, the Chiefs were destroying a lot of people with their 1-6 record, right? The Chiefs weren't doing good. They just did good against us.

Bengals played 10 teams with Burfict, not 8. Three out of those 10 teams were in the top 3 offenses. So 4 bad offenses and 3 amazing offenses with 3 more just average offenses doesn't mean that we played a cupcake schedule. If you average all of the offensive rankings of the season w/o Burfict it comes to 15, and if you average all of the offenses when we had Burfict it comes to 16, so it's not like there's a huge difference between the kind of teams we faced.