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(09-09-2024, 06:20 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: No way you can leave out Hudson’s fumble on the goal line, and the muffed punt by Jones. Absolute game changers.
Sure I can, our offense with a healthy Burrow and Chase should be able to overcome 2 turnovers.
Our defense should be able to stop a team with a backup QB, new HC, new OC, and missing most of their oline with no receiving weapons.
If this was the Chiefs instead of the Patriots and we lost by the same score those turnovers would be disastrous, but it is not the same. I wish we only had the 2 fumbles to complain about.
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(09-09-2024, 06:43 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: If the Hudson and Jones fumbles don’t happen the Bengals could have very well scraped out an ugly win. It’s silly to leave them off a “reasons we lost” list, imo. Where you want to put them in the order of blame is up for debate.
For me the biggest reasons they lost were Burrow was way too sped up when he actually had time, the tackling was atrocious and they made Rhamondre Stevenson look like prime Barry Sanders, and the two turnovers.
Technically...sure, but bit players like Hudson and Jones are the least of our worries. An ugly win would have been better but Im not sure I would feel anymore confident than I do today with the loss.