Good
1st team OL and shout out to Fairchild for 2nd great performance (looking like a steal)
Tinsley made me a believer with a couple of very tough catches for TD's (he made the team last night)
Charlie Jones looked good on ST and as 3rd receiver option
Hudson had a drop, but continues to make plays for first downs (Is he trade bait or did he make the team)
Browning made somevery good throws, we have a solid backup QB I hope we never have to use
I thought Anderson played well and had a nice pick, Same for rookie LB Carter who showed some quickness and speed as he baited Hartman
Money Mac is backwith 2 50+ field goals and 4 PAT's

Bad
Front 7 starters last night on defense
Our DC and defensive coaches

If both teams starters were in the whole game that would’ve been a 45-42 final.

Good
Carter
Burrow
Browning
Fairchild
Our “other” WR’s

Bad
Safety’s(well, the starters)
Corners
D-Line
Wilson and Knight

I just don’t think it matters who the DC is, don’t think much can be done with these players. They can’t tackle and take bad angles.

(6 hours ago)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: Lucas Patrick belongs in the fugly category.

This is Bengals offensive lineman Lucas Patrick. Instead of blocking one of the three defenders chasing his quarterback, he decides to throw his hands up in the air. Absolutely incredible. #kywx pic.twitter.com/VFLH1yR5Ox

— Chris Bailey?️⚡️ (@Kentuckyweather) August 19, 2025

(6 hours ago)bengalfan74 Wrote: Yes this guy can't be our starter, just can't.

As mentioned on Twitter last night by Ben Baby, you're taught to do this as if you engage and the defender is behind you, can be called for a chop block.

Fred Johnson did it on Burrow's Tenn. run in 2020, it sticks out in my head like a sore thumb:

https://youtu.be/kAW2ZSTdtQ0?si=WPRYvECKC4GyLw3Q&t=465

And I'm not using it as an excuse, it's actually a thing that is instructed, league-wide, as to avoid penalty.

The line actually had a good game, not perfect, but good.

And those saying Rivers looked good, he looked pretty awful once he came in. After that first drive (where they scored), he looked better.

(4 hours ago)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: This has him at 9.3 RAS. Hardly awful. 

https://steelersdepot.com/2023/04/2023-draft-safety-prospects-relative-athletic-scores-ras/

Jordan Battle is a SS prospect in the 2023 draft class. He scored a 5.90 #RAS out of a possible 10.00. This ranked 392 out of 954 SS from 1987 to 2023. https://t.co/kR14l1qsho pic.twitter.com/dVbJhrC1ge

— RAS.football (@MathBomb) April 13, 2023

(4 hours ago)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: As mentioned on Twitter last night by Ben Baby, you're taught to do this as if you engage and the defender is behind you, can be called for a chop block.

Fred Johnson did it on Burrow's Tenn. run in 2020, it sticks out in my head like a sore thumb:

https://youtu.be/kAW2ZSTdtQ0?si=WPRYvECKC4GyLw3Q&t=465

And I'm not using it as an excuse, it's actually a thing that is instructed, league-wide, as to avoid penalty.

The line actually had a good game, not perfect, but good.

And those saying Rivers looked good, he looked pretty awful once he came in. After that first drive (where they scored), he looked better.

Yep. There had to be a reason he did that.

It's interesting, if fans don't like a player, they'll look at 1 or 2 plays. Same if they like a guy. When in reality, you have to look at the play overall.

Not saying Patrick is good. But, he's not totally inept either.

(4 hours ago)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: As mentioned on Twitter last night by Ben Baby, you're taught to do this as if you engage and the defender is behind you, can be called for a chop block.

Fred Johnson did it on Burrow's Tenn. run in 2020, it sticks out in my head like a sore thumb:

https://youtu.be/kAW2ZSTdtQ0?si=WPRYvECKC4GyLw3Q&t=465

And I'm not using it as an excuse, it's actually a thing that is instructed, league-wide, as to avoid penalty.

The line actually had a good game, not perfect, but good.

And those saying Rivers looked good, he looked pretty awful once he came in. After that first drive (where they scored), he looked better.

I guess he can only be bothered to get mad and protect his QB against his own teammates.

(6 hours ago)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: I thought Tahj Brooks was bad. Underwhelming at the very least.

I don't think he's the type of runner to make lemonade out of lemons. If the holes are there, he has good change of direction on cutbacks though he lacks top end speed. He could be a good backup with a decent run blocking line. I just wouldn't even expect really good things out of him until the line is up to par run blocking. 

He's not nearly on Chase Brown's level. 

(6 hours ago)WeezyBengal Wrote: I'd say Burrow playing way too much, trying to make way too much happen for a preseason game is one of the fuglys. 

For the love of God, will someone save this man from himself? Grow some balls before you torpedo the season, ZT.

I may be the only Bengals fan in the world that doesn't have a problem with this. Burrow plays the same, whether it's regular season or preseason. If that helps him get into his groove sooner, i'm all for it. 

(5 hours ago)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: He’s an insane person. I’m convinced of that.

If you take that away from him, he's probably not the same player. We have to take the bad with the good with Joe. He's willing to get himself wrecked to make a play. He's an actual football player playing the QB position. But yeah ... I cringe sometimes.

(5 hours ago)PhilHos Wrote: As one of the (few?) resident optimists on here, I gotta say that I am worried about the defense. I'm still holding out hope that once he starts to gameplan against each opponent specifically, Golden'll be able to mask SOME of the defense's deficiencies, but man, does the starting defense look out of sync and filled with practice squad caliber talent AT BEST. I mean, it's one thing to be vanilla and not call plays because of stuff you saw on film, but it's another to just not have ANYONE seem capable of playing their position at even an average level.

That being said, anyone that calls for Golden's head after only 2 preseason games is a moron whose opinion is not worth the paper it's printed on (no, I don't print out these posts; that'd be weird )

TBS, all the talk is...vanilla, just do the basics, sound fundamental football. 

They're not even able to do that. Dline shedding blocks, LBs filling gaps correctly, safeties up in run support. 

None of it. 

(5 hours ago)Bengalbug Wrote: That throw to Charlie jones was incredible.

I'd venture to say that pass was in his top ten of all time.

(3 hours ago)rfaulk34 Wrote:

TBS, all the talk is...vanilla, just do the basics, sound fundamental football. 

They're not even able to do that. Dline shedding blocks, LBs filling gaps correctly, safeties up in run support.

None of it. 

BINGO

I don't buy, at all, that some magic elixir will fix this D come the regular season. They, as you say, can't even do A & B right. How the hell they going to do X,Y, and Z in 3 weeks or whatever?

This was a great catch, you can see Patrick reach for his left shoulder/pec area. https://t.co/GyxyhLnSLV

— Paul Dehner Jr. (@pauldehnerjr) August 19, 2025

This is two games in a row Knight struggled with his run fits and just looked all around slow to react, timid, and sometimes just lost.

(3 hours ago)Synric Wrote: This is two games in a row Knight struggled with his run fits and just looked all around slow to react, timid, and sometimes just lost.

That's what I saw as well. Nothing that gave me a warm fuzzy feeling that he's starter material.

(3 hours ago)Synric Wrote: This is two games in a row Knight struggled with his run fits and just looked all around slow to react, timid, and sometimes just lost.

Could have doubled up on the Georgia guards and been set for Burrow’s prime.

(3 hours ago)Synric Wrote: This is two games in a row Knight struggled with his run fits and just looked all around slow to react, timid, and sometimes just lost.

I thought Knight strruggled as well. 

At first I thought it was Knight who took a horrible angle on Samual 1st play of game run, but then it looked it was Burks who started the game and in my opinion cost us a lot of yards. 

(3 hours ago)rfaulk34 Wrote: I may be the only Bengals fan in the world that doesn't have a problem with this. Burrow plays the same, whether it's regular season or preseason. If that helps him get into his groove sooner, i'm all for it. 

I figured he was gone for the season after this 3 on 1 sack. Pure lunacy, both on his part and on Taylor's part for having him out there.

(5 hours ago)bengalfan74 Wrote: I'm not even sure with this D we can go 9-8 again? As good as I think our O will be (especially if we get another guard). We're not gonna score 45 points a game. The number required with this D.

Hw was basically give the same bad defense we had last year without the best defensive player on the team no real upgrades. Mostly step backs to replace players. And the front office expected a better defense. Looks like last year d defense or worse

It is going to be a year or two before we get a decent defense.

Like trey, wintworth, and bates we let our core playmakers walk other teams suck them up and become better
Our defense took a nose dive when they let bates walk

(3 hours ago)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: Could have doubled up on the Georgia guards and been set for Burrow’s prime.

Woulda, Coulda and Shoulda does us no good. We need to look forward now in my opinion. Let's sign Risner and my hope he is a better RG than Rutledge isin 2025.

It is very easy after any draft to be able to pick a better pick choice.  We have yet to play a real game with our rookies, in time we will see if Bengals picking Kinight was a good or bad draft decision.