***Week 1 GameDay Thread - Bengals @ Colts***

[BoomerFan]

(09-09-2018, 12:41 PM)Millhouse Wrote: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bengals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bengals</a> Inactives: <br><br>WR Cody Core (back)<br>WR Auden Tate<br>RB Mark Walton<br>LB Malik Jefferson<br>OL Christian Westerman<br>OL Cedric Ogbuehi<br>DT Josh Tupou</p>&mdash; Paul Dehner Jr. (@pauldehnerjr) <a href="https://twitter.com/pauldehnerjr/status/1038811775062429699?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2018</a></blockquote>

Interesting. Surprised that Jake Fisher is going over Ced O after all the training camp hype that he was a changed player. On the one hand, Fisher has done better in actual games but Ced had played both Tackle spots. Hopefully we don't need any backups of course. Westerman not being active must be disappointing but I get that Trey can backup both Guard positions and Center. 

Mark Walton being inactive means, Tra Carson is getting to dress. If things are going well they'll probably put him in for a play here and there between there normal alternating of Mixon and Gio -- hope he makes the best of that. He looked great against pre-season squads. 

No TEs inactive -- all 4 are dressing. Maybe mean we don't have much faith in Eifert staying healthy the whole game, or maybe (dare I to hope?) we could see some two TE sets?

Malik Jefferson sitting while Hardy Nickerson is a bit surprising on the defensive side though Nickerson legit played well in pre-season and Malik looked like the rookie he is. He'll get his chance if he keeps working it. Hopefully Hardy Nickerson, Nick Vigil, and Jordan Evans all take the next step and Preston Brown continues to play like he has in the pre-season (was looking great). And hopefully we get the good Vinnie Rey and not the bad Vinnie Rey. The Colts do have a ground game (not to mention the elusive Andrew Luck when he is running) so LBs need to be playing sideline to sideline and not miss tackles.