Apparently Cowherd is a little upset with people acting like Dalton has been playing great this season. I always thought this guy was a joke. He's just butthurt that he's always said Dalton is a below average QB and yet he's playing out of his mind this year. I love that he acts like all of the "great" QBs don't have weapons even though if you actually look they have pretty damn good weapons around them almost all of their career.



https://youtu.be/UdNmFopwlPw

I am sitting at about 70% right now. I can't trust the guy. The offense needs to keep scoring when they get down there (they have been superb this season) because I simply don't trust Nugent to make 5/5 kicks. We always talk about trading players... what can we trade for a kicker like Cairo Santos. That kid was gold.

After this season we need to reevaluate the kicking situation because eventually it is going to bite us in the a** (knock on wood). Even if he was the ONLY person to show up in last years playoff game, I just simply can't trust Nugent.

How do you feel about him?

It looks like Kevin Coyle will be fired by the Dolphins this week.

Should we bring him back as an assistant?

I know it's probably posted somewhere, I just don't see it.
So for your viewing pleasure, here is that guy who we almost got rid of this season.

https://twitter.com/NFL/status/650749621405224961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

On one hand, people are telling me to not be excited about the Bengals.
On the other, people are wondering why I'm not more excited about the Bengals.

Because I'm someone that lets other people dictate my feelings about things, tell me, dear friends, how should I feel about the Bengals?

Don't care who wins. All I want is a full 5 quarters ending in a tie.

Dontari Poe, Tamba Hali, Justin Houston..... met a wall they could not penetrate. Have to give it up to Paul Alexander and his Oline. Andy has only been sacked twice this year. Outstanding play Gentlemen.....

Vinny Rey is 8th in the league in tackles with 36.

Adam Jones is first in the league in tackles by a CB.

Carlos Dunlap and Geno Atkins are 2 of only 5 defensive players that have at least 3 sacks and 3 stuffs (tackle for loss on running play).  The others are J.J. Watt, Aaron Donald, and Aaron Lynch.

Huber is third in the league in both punting average and net punting avg.  He is first in number of punts downed inside the 10 yard line (5) despite only punting 14 times.

Bengals are 4-0, which is great, but obviously there are still a lot of Bengals fans not impressed with the Bengals record, including me. That's not because I think the Bengals are bad, I actually do think that they're good which is why I'm not that impressed by their record. I wouldn't say we're on the Patriots level, but I wouldn't be impressed if I was a Patriots fan either. They're supposed to be winning their games, much like I believe the Bengals should be winning theirs. There hasn't been a team yet this year that I thought the Bengals would lose to. So, for me it's hard to feel "impressed" knowing how good our team is and that it's the regular season against questionable teams. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I will be absolutely impressed and jumping out of my seat if we can win a playoff game this year. My Bengals bar is high. We SHOULD be doing this good, so it's not surprising or impressive to me, but I am happy that we're not losing.

The main thing I wanted to address with this thread is the argument that the Bengals at first had a "hard schedule" but now have a weak one since we're winning. I would honestly like to hear peoples opinions of how they came to the conclusions that the Bengals had a hard schedule in the first place before the season even started or if they believe the Bengals now have a weak schedule. I personally believe it's a dull argument because it sounds like a lot people make these sort of assumptions based on teams records from the previous year. I don't think it's fair to say how "difficult" a teams schedule is until you've actually seen what the teams can do within the current season.

I just thought it'd be fun to see the pace Dalton's stats are on after each week. I think it'd be interesting to compare the pace he's on to where he'll eventually end up.

My plan is to update this post after every game with the new pace he's on.

For the record, I'm not saying this means anything. I just think the final comparison will be interesting.

WEEK 1
400 comp 544 att 73.5 comp% 4304 yards 32 TD 0 INT 115.9 rating

WEEK 2
328 comp 480 att 68.3 comp% 3864 yards 40 TD 0 INT 120.3 rating

WEEK 3
323 comp 488 att 66.2 comp% 4590 yards 42 TD 5 INT 120.9 rating

WEEK 4
312 comp 464 att 67.2 comp% 4748 yards 36 TD 4 INT 123.0 rating

WEEK 5
346 comp 512 att 67.5% comp% 4858 yards 35 TD 7 INT 115.0 rating

WEEK 6
351 comp 521 att 67.4% comp% 4755 yards 38 TD 5 INT 116.6 rating

WEEK 7
BYE

WEEK 8
350 comp 528 att 66.3% comp% 4553 yards 34 TD 9 INT 107.6 rating

WEEK 9
348 comp 516 att 67.4% comp% 4452 yards 36 TD 8 INT 111.0 rating