Browns had no answer to Carson Palmer to Fitzgerald. Browns had a 20 to 7 lead when Carson and Fitzgerald started making it look easy.....AJ Green could have a huge night, but if he is double covered, that is stupid because Jones or Eifert or Sanu will be wide open.

Yeah, I know he played great on Sunday and played almost twice as many snaps as anyone projected before, but especially because he already played a lot more than expected and this being a short week is he on a snap count? I haven't read anything about him being on a snap count today. I think it might not be a bad idea to let him play 40 -45 snaps, and then get him out of the game. Hopefully the team has a big lead by then and won't need him to lay a lot, but with Maualuga possibly being out or on a snap count himself (being limited in practice yesterday), maybe they are planning on Burfict playing the whole game. I'd rather they give Burfict one more week before they ask him to play a full game.

The Bengals have a golden opportunity to reach the 8-0 mark tonight against the Brownies. It got me to wondering how other 8-0 starts have fared in a 16 game season. Here's what I found...

Since the league moved to a 16 game schedule in '78, 15 teams have started the season 8-0.
Of those 15, only 2 ('o6 Colts, '13 Chiefs) finished with fewer than 13 wins.
9 of the 15 reached the Super Bowl and 2 others made it to their conference championship game.
6 of the 9 that made the SB...won it.
Going 8-0 has meant a SB appearance 60% of the time, and a SB Title 40% of the time.

That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with this season, or this team...and they still have to go out and win the game tonight to become 8-0. However, if they win tonight...it is fun to look at previous history and imagine how this season could play out.

Who Dey!!!

Via ESPN:

Will anybody else be at the game?!

If so, where are you tailgating?

What time?

We'll be at The Banks probably by 4:30 or 5, but haven't talked to anybody about tailgating yet.

This game's HUGE! Time for Dalton to get the PrimeTime monkey off his back and to announce to the world on the national stage that the Bengals are here to stay!

Has anyone heard who the inactive players are tonight?

I'll be there Section 313 Row 20.

Here is a great article from ESPN with factual info backing up what many of us stated, injuries to our WR's and TE's in 2014 were a big reason our offense struggled and was inconsistent in 2014. Looking at this, we were very fortunate to even get to the playoffs in my opinion in 2014. This also explains AD's QBR going down a little.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/insider/story/_/id/14056163/why-andy-dalton-playing-top-tier-qb-nfl

People forget, AJ missed a lot of time and only played around 60% of the snaps.

It also discusses our weakness currently for 2015. I though it was a great factual article.

Thoughts?

I realize that Johnny retired the money sign, but does our defense do the money sign again when we sack him or pick him off or force a fumble off of him?



I think we should just because it ridicules their entire franchise and says "you're a d bag and we own you!"

With the brownies rush defense struggling, I'd love to see a heavy dose of hill and gio. I think you give the ball to hill 25 times this game, wear out their defense, then take a shot on their second string secondary.

If we don't give up on the run, I think we cruise to 8-0