Love him and thankful to have him but not sure he ELITE

Too many dropped simple passes and does not fight for the ball amongst other petty things

Don't get me wrong - I think he is excellent but not ELITE 

(*Cue the homers..........)

From Bengals.com:  There are so many things I love about this article:

The comment from Reggie Nelson about finishing.

The comment from Hue regarding "what it is about".

The comments (and joke?) from Dalton.

This team is saying and doing all the right things.  They will be really tested this week with a San Diego team that put up huge numbers against a solid Detroit squad. 

Here is the link:

http://www.bengals.com/news/article-1/Bengals-get-jump-on-history-and-the-present/c904b703-a056-4a65-978a-f357353c425a

Lost in the amazing play of Eifert, Dalton and Co is the play calling of Hue. On these boards we have long been moaning about how the offensive play calling isn't quite right. In the past it hasn't made the best of Dalton's abilities. Yesterday however we saw what we have all been asking for.

The formations were creative. We had line shifts, Whitworth in the slot, stacked receivers and play calling that didn't ask anyone to do too much. In fact I loved the fact Hue enabled short passes to become big plays by clever formations. My favourite was on the Sanu 28 yarder linked below, Whiworth mauled his man.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/cincinnati-bengals/0ap3000000529395/Bengals-Andy-Daltons-finds-Mohamad-Sanu-for-28-yards

By this point we know Dalton isn't a 'grab the game by the scruff of the neck' QB. So I think it was very important to see Hue be varied and complex not letting the game become to static and predictable. Winning the first game of the season is always important for a number of reasons and yesterday was great. Hope Hue and the team keep this up! WHO DEY!

I know very little of what I'm about to say is that different than much of what has already been said. But, being that I often give the team a hard time, I wanted to start a thread on my own, praising them for their effort today. They played a damn good game.

I know I give Marvin a lot of grief and make a ton of Giggles jokes and all that. The fact is he took his team on the road and had his team ready to play week 1. To the point of thoroughly outplaying the opponent. They completely outclassed Oakland. To do that, in someone else's stadium, in this league, is incredibly difficult. While I still may not think he's the guy to get us to the promised land, he certainly did a fine job today. For that, he is deserving of credit.

Andy... See a lot of what I wrote above. I make a lot of Noodles jokes. I post a lot of hypothetical scenarios that involve us moving on from him or changing the pasyt. I have mentioned a slew of names like Bridgewater, and Carr, and Fitzpatrick, and even Palmer... I digress... Andy played very well today. He too deserves a round of applause.

This one may be the hardest. Warren. I mean, Paul. Alexander that is. The Piano Man's group was phenomenal today. I do think he's given an abundance of talent to work with, but that's neither nor there right now. The fact is he had his group prepared to play. Both he and they did a fantastic job.

Gunther's unit - Maybe the best performance of the bunch... Hill, Bernard. Both good... No turnovers... No big plays on special teams (save a block PAT). A lot of praise to go around. Eifert, IMO, was the biggest bright spot of the game. I've never seen us use a TE like that. It could open up a whole, whole lot.

All in all, I think the team is deserving of an A for week 1. Great job, Bengals. One of the most impressive wins of the week, if not the most impressive.

Been seeing a lot of media wondering why he didn't get tossed from the game for slamming Coopers head into the ground after that tackle and altercation. After NFL reviews video he could get a suspension. I was actually surprised he didn't get ejected too. It looked bad.

My intention is not to complain. We had a great game and we looked great in every facet of the game.

But I hope Dalton and Green get more in sync next game.

They had three plays that could have made the game even more lopsided, but Dalton overthrew a wide open Green early, Green dropped a perfectly thrown TD pass an then Green dropped an open deep pass that was also kind of badly aimed.

Both were to blame for the struggles they had today. I really hope they can link up a little more consistently in the coming games, because our offense is going to be special this season.

All the talk is around Dalton and Eifert (for good reason), but it was great to see Geno register a sack in the very first game. I have a feeling he's going to have a big season, and this defense is going to start looking like it's old self.

I have to say that I've been worried about our pass protection, particularly from center, but they looked pretty good today.

I feel like Andy was worried about it, too, because there were times when he was standing in the pocket for a few seconds and would start to scramble because he figured there had to be pressure, but there was none, so he'd either re-set or throw on the run.

Anybody else notice that or have any thoughts on our line's play?

The CBS TV announcers raved about Bengals O Line dominating Raiders with run blocking and pass blocking. .....I saw no problems at center or the rest of the line....Bengals bring back all the starters from last year plus more bench depth, and it is always a huge plus to bring back all the starters from a play-off season team....The center was a rookie last year, and that needs to be remembered. I don't know what some fans thought they saw in preseason, but Bodine just starting his second season may end up being pretty darn good....The Raiders D Line was suppose to be so awesome it had some Bengals fans scared, but the Bengals O Line kind of had their way with them.

The Bengals D Line won on that side of the ball, so Bengals DOMINATED the trenches and a big reason for today's WIN.

Raiders never had a chance. I can't find much fault. except for once again Marvin's poor timeout usage. Also why not let Mccarron play the 4th couldn't we have put in many backups at the start of the 4th. Other than that a truly inspiring performance.