08-21-2018, 11:26 AM
(08-21-2018, 06:34 AM)kevin Wrote: Preseason game 3 is when teams really try to play like a regular season game. At least the first half. They have to stretch out the starters so they are ready for a full game in 2 weeks. This is always the preseason game you most want to see. Also the Bengals are in strange situation of ending preseason with Colts and a week later starting season with Colts. It's good on travel cheapness this Cincy vs Indy, but it should be very vanilla packages. Saving the best plays and players for when it counts the next week. So I don't look for Bengals and Colts to be much of a preseason game at all. Hardly worth watching. This weeks game with Buffalo a whole different story. Probably the last preseason game for many starters and you want to see them look like they are ready for start of season in 2 weeks. Bills often give Bengals a good smash mouth old school hard game, so it should be a good preseason game to watch. Fans should get many answers on who the coaches are leaning to being on the roster, in this dry run for starting the season. Bengals starters did good against Bears, not very good against Cowboys, so I'm sure coaches are wanting to see a good first half. The blocking was good against Bears, but awful blocking against Cowboys. That is a huge question mark going into the important preseason game 3 and all 2018 hopes depend on improved blocking. Bengals need to put it together this weekend in their warm up game for start of season.
Yes, this is the Preseason game we might see something of what we have this year. The Offense has to get
enough snaps to gain a rhythm, didn't seem to get that at all in the Cowboy game. The Bills are a quality NFL
team to boot that like you says like to play physical like we want to do this year. They have a good Defense,
a very good D-line and a stud RB. This is where i want to see us play tough against.
Want to see Mixon get in some runs to establish a rhythm with the O-line, he has had like 6 carries, hard to
really judge him at all especially when Gio, Hill and Carson are all playing against backups pretty much.
Want to see Dalton and Ross get on the same page to gain him some more confidence.
Excited about this Preseason game.
