01-16-2023, 12:33 PM
(01-16-2023, 11:11 AM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: But that was a stop. It was 3rd at 16.
Look, I think you are correct that the O looked better in the first half. My points are that:
1) It was not a huge gap. More possessions in half #2. Only 1 less point.
2) It was not all on Carman. Evidence: the O has crapped the bed for entire halves pretty consistently recently: 1st half TB, 2nd half NE, 2nd half of BOTH Ravens games. Carman had zero to do with the first three.
He should be better with a week of practice. Unless we go with Prince.
Bengals also went ultra conservative on the last 2 drives. Had nothing to do with the OL nearly as much as they wanted to chew clock up. I did not agree with them going conservative on the drive after the roughing the punter penalty as they only needed 20 yards for a legitimate FG and that drive could have nailed the coffin shut as long as it was taking Balt. to go down the field.
Think about this as there were only a total of 7-8 drives by cinci. the entire game with one of them a real short field and they scored on 3 of those.
