Why the Bengals are a Playoff threat

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(09-13-2021, 10:04 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I enjoyed the game yesterday, but the Vikings are a perpetual underperformer year after year and we almost blew an easy win against them via bad coaching decisions and/or unfortunate mistakes.

Giving up 2 4th down conversions, that 3rd and 24 and needing an iffy fumble stand call (which, if it was ruled down, it would have stood as down, so we were really just extremely lucky that the refs, who didn't see the play, saw all the Bengals pointing and just kind of went with it) to squeak out a win against a team with over 100 yards in penalties is not a great way to show you're playoff contenders.

But a win is a win. This game counts just as much as if we blew them out 38-3, so we'll take it and hopefully we clean up our mistakes and take care of the Dalton led Bears, who looked pretty bad yesterday.

Agreed.  I've said the close losses that coulda been wins of the ZT era are just losses, so this win that coulda been a loss is just a win.  It's week 1 so never get too high nor low.

With that being said, the Bears will be at home so no 10 false starts per offensive drive for them, Montomery is a monster RB, Dalton doesn't suck at 1 PM and they might use Fields more anyways, and so on.  The Rams were just on last night.  Dalton and the Bears would take 10 plays to get what the Rams would get in 2 plays.


At any rate, we had a home opener against a beatable opponent and we got some gifts, but we also played well AND didn't look the gift horse in the mouth.  That Jeremy Hill style fumble was huge...geez.  Nice to be on the other side of that.