11-05-2016, 08:48 AM
Coach Lewis keeps doing what Coach Lewis does. Bengals defer to BYE, BYE scores on opening possession. BYE takes 27-6 lead into half (Erickson runs back a kick off mid-second quarter for the Bengals only score, but Nugent misses PAT, and two field goal attempts of 46, and 39 yards). At the half the Bengals have 328 yards total offense, 139 of it receiving yards for A.J. Green, but no offensive scores.
Early in the 4th quarter Bengals score an offensive touchdown on a 62 yard sweep. Jeremy Hill dances like he's auditioning for Dancing With the Stars, even though it was Rex Burkhead running the ball for the score! Late in 4th quarter a turnover gets them another score. At this point it is 34-20, and the Bengals get the ball with 3:47. Dalton marches the team down the field with no timeouts remaining. They move at a furious pace. At a 3:14 Lewis shrewdly sends Nugent out on 4th and 1 from the 13. Nugent drills the field goal to make it a 2 score game and there is an eternity still on the clock!
With the score 34-23, and 1:18 remaining Geno Atkins forces a fumble. Bengals take over at the 32, just 68 yards from the touchdown that won't tie the game, and 4 runs up the middle later the Bengals are knocking at the door with 14 seconds still on the clock. Gio Bernard up the middle takes it to the 1 where he is tackled as time expires. Final BYE 34 Bengals 23. The line was BYE -11 and 1/2, so gamblers who took the Bengals are ecstatic. Post game Lewis, giggling, says, " We just ran out of plays today. And, it's good that we did that. Our football team needed more time today. That's the thing. We'll have to clean some things up and get better."
Early in the 4th quarter Bengals score an offensive touchdown on a 62 yard sweep. Jeremy Hill dances like he's auditioning for Dancing With the Stars, even though it was Rex Burkhead running the ball for the score! Late in 4th quarter a turnover gets them another score. At this point it is 34-20, and the Bengals get the ball with 3:47. Dalton marches the team down the field with no timeouts remaining. They move at a furious pace. At a 3:14 Lewis shrewdly sends Nugent out on 4th and 1 from the 13. Nugent drills the field goal to make it a 2 score game and there is an eternity still on the clock!
With the score 34-23, and 1:18 remaining Geno Atkins forces a fumble. Bengals take over at the 32, just 68 yards from the touchdown that won't tie the game, and 4 runs up the middle later the Bengals are knocking at the door with 14 seconds still on the clock. Gio Bernard up the middle takes it to the 1 where he is tackled as time expires. Final BYE 34 Bengals 23. The line was BYE -11 and 1/2, so gamblers who took the Bengals are ecstatic. Post game Lewis, giggling, says, " We just ran out of plays today. And, it's good that we did that. Our football team needed more time today. That's the thing. We'll have to clean some things up and get better."
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
