***Browns Vs Bengals OFFICIAL Gameday Thread***
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I'm glad we are done with the Bengals for 2020. They are only going to get better and will win some games by year's end in which we'd never have thought they'd be competitive as recently as this week.
- Burrow is honing his craft...
- their WR corps is very, very good... and now it seems they have another TE or two.
- Clearly they need Mixon, but Gio can still be that change of pace guy and sometime bell-cow.
- OL is the O-side weakest link, but even with it getting weaker thru today's game their playcalling kept it from being a big negative.
And defensively while far from stout, they've got good team speed...
Tell ya one thing... if Dunlap really is on the outs with the staff as the announcers intimated, I'm chatting with their GM before I leave town this afternoon to get a sense of what it might take to line him up opposite MG.
"When you have a shared vision it is a lot easier to make unpopular decisions." - Paul DePodesta "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." - Paul Brown Complete 2017 Browns Board Mock: http://thebrownsboard.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46196 -
I'm glad we are done with the Bengals for 2020. They are only going to get better and will win some games by year's end in which we'd never have thought they'd be competitive as recently as this week.
- Burrow is honing his craft...
- their WR corps is very, very good... and now it seems they have another TE or two.
- Clearly they need Mixon, but Gio can still be that change of pace guy and sometime bell-cow.
- OL is the O-side weakest link, but even with it getting weaker thru today's game their playcalling kept it from being a big negative.
And defensively while far from stout, they've got good team speed...
Tell ya one thing... if Dunlap really is on the outs with the staff as the announcers intimated, I'm chatting with their GM before I leave town this afternoon to get a sense of what it might take to line him up opposite MG.
I'm glad we are done with the Bengals for 2020. They are only going to get better and will win some games by year's end in which we'd never have thought they'd be competitive as recently as this week.
- Burrow is honing his craft...
- their WR corps is very, very good... and now it seems they have another TE or two.
- Clearly they need Mixon, but Gio can still be that change of pace guy and sometime bell-cow.
- OL is the O-side weakest link, but even with it getting weaker thru today's game their playcalling kept it from being a big negative.
And defensively while far from stout, they've got good team speed...
Tell ya one thing... if Dunlap really is on the outs with the staff as the announcers intimated, I'm chatting with their GM before I leave town this afternoon to get a sense of what it might take to line him up opposite MG.
Give them OBJ.. We don't need him...
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I'm glad we are done with the Bengals for 2020. They are only going to get better and will win some games by year's end in which we'd never have thought they'd be competitive as recently as this week.
- Burrow is honing his craft...
- their WR corps is very, very good... and now it seems they have another TE or two.
- Clearly they need Mixon, but Gio can still be that change of pace guy and sometime bell-cow.
- OL is the O-side weakest link, but even with it getting weaker thru today's game their playcalling kept it from being a big negative.
And defensively while far from stout, they've got good team speed...
Tell ya one thing... if Dunlap really is on the outs with the staff as the announcers intimated, I'm chatting with their GM before I leave town this afternoon to get a sense of what it might take to line him up opposite MG.
Give them OBJ.. We don't need him...
"When you have a shared vision it is a lot easier to make unpopular decisions." - Paul DePodesta "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." - Paul Brown Complete 2017 Browns Board Mock: http://thebrownsboard.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46196 -
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You must be thinking of a different Dunlap...
Thank you for the updated message in the tavern. I don't think it necessarily stopped everyone but it was better. Also yeah I don't get the obj hate. We aren't going to be trade him for much at this point as that left knee injury looked bad.
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Two things which I thought. Baker sure looked better with OBJ not in the lineup. It will be interesting to see how Baker does the next few games (or longer) if OBJ's injury is serious like they think it is,
Second, I thought Joe Woods called a horrible game. It was obvious that Cinci had the Browns' number in regards to how much we were blitzing, but Joe never altered his strategy. If you are facing a rookie Qb it seems that there are two ways to face him- either bring the blitz or disguise the back 7's alignment. I didn't see us disguising our coverage much at all. We kept blitzing and we kept getting burnt by it.
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Two things which I thought. Baker sure looked better with OBJ not in the lineup. It will be interesting to see how Baker does the next few games (or longer) if OBJ's injury is serious like they think it is,
Second, I thought Joe Woods called a horrible game. It was obvious that Cinci had the Browns' number in regards to how much we were blitzing, but Joe never altered his strategy. If you are facing a rookie Qb it seems that there are two ways to face him- either bring the blitz or disguise the back 7's alignment. I didn't see us disguising our coverage much at all. We kept blitzing and we kept getting burnt by it.
Two things which I thought. Baker sure looked better with OBJ not in the lineup. It will be interesting to see how Baker does the next few games (or longer) if OBJ's injury is serious like they think it is,
Second, I thought Joe Woods called a horrible game. It was obvious that Cinci had the Browns' number in regards to how much we were blitzing, but Joe never altered his strategy. If you are facing a rookie Qb it seems that there are two ways to face him- either bring the blitz or disguise the back 7's alignment. I didn't see us disguising our coverage much at all. We kept blitzing and we kept getting burnt by it.
I'm not sure you realize what we have to work with. Like Nero said, we only have Ward and Garrett on the D. Perhaps a few others and a few 2nd year players that will improve. But right now, our D sucks. Doesn't matter who's coaching.
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I'm glad we are done with the Bengals for 2020. They are only going to get better and will win some games by year's end in which we'd never have thought they'd be competitive as recently as this week.
- Burrow is honing his craft...
- their WR corps is very, very good... and now it seems they have another TE or two.
- Clearly they need Mixon, but Gio can still be that change of pace guy and sometime bell-cow.
- OL is the O-side weakest link, but even with it getting weaker thru today's game their playcalling kept it from being a big negative.
And defensively while far from stout, they've got good team speed...
Tell ya one thing... if Dunlap really is on the outs with the staff as the announcers intimated, I'm chatting with their GM before I leave town this afternoon to get a sense of what it might take to line him up opposite MG.
Tell ya one thing... if Dunlap really is on the outs with the staff as the announcers intimated, I'm chatting with their GM before I leave town this afternoon to get a sense of what it might take to line him up opposite MG.
Apparently Dunlap’s house is for sale...
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I'm glad we are done with the Bengals for 2020. They are only going to get better and will win some games by year's end in which we'd never have thought they'd be competitive as recently as this week.
- Burrow is honing his craft...
- their WR corps is very, very good... and now it seems they have another TE or two.
- Clearly they need Mixon, but Gio can still be that change of pace guy and sometime bell-cow.
- OL is the O-side weakest link, but even with it getting weaker thru today's game their playcalling kept it from being a big negative.
And defensively while far from stout, they've got good team speed...
Tell ya one thing... if Dunlap really is on the outs with the staff as the announcers intimated, I'm chatting with their GM before I leave town this afternoon to get a sense of what it might take to line him up opposite MG.
I'm glad we are done with the Bengals for 2020. They are only going to get better and will win some games by year's end in which we'd never have thought they'd be competitive as recently as this week.
- Burrow is honing his craft...
- their WR corps is very, very good... and now it seems they have another TE or two.
- Clearly they need Mixon, but Gio can still be that change of pace guy and sometime bell-cow.
- OL is the O-side weakest link, but even with it getting weaker thru today's game their playcalling kept it from being a big negative.
And defensively while far from stout, they've got good team speed...
Tell ya one thing... if Dunlap really is on the outs with the staff as the announcers intimated, I'm chatting with their GM before I leave town this afternoon to get a sense of what it might take to line him up opposite MG.
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Was it Dunlap screaming at an assistant coach at the end of the game? Someone was going off on the sideline, but I couldn't tell who it was.
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The reality is, they aren't much better than Cinci, if we face the truth. But at 5-2, it's sure better than Hue Dickhole's 0-7 (leading to 0-16 or 1-15).
The reality is, they aren't much better than Cinci, if we face the truth. But at 5-2, it's sure better than Hue Dickhole's 0-7 (leading to 0-16 or 1-15).
Um, most of the time, one or two plays are the difference between winning an losing in the NFL. The Browns made huge plays at the end to win. We may not be a dominant team, but we're good enough now to make a playoff run.
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The ending of today's game is better with a musical score... ?
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The reality is, they aren't much better than Cinci, if we face the truth. But at 5-2, it's sure better than Hue Dickhole's 0-7 (leading to 0-16 or 1-15).
Um, most of the time, one or two plays are the difference between winning an losing in the NFL. The Browns made huge plays at the end to win. We may not be a dominant team, but we're good enough now to make a playoff run.
Um, most of the time, one or two plays are the difference between winning an losing in the NFL.
Speaking of, and since you live down in Bengal Country you'd know better, but I'm impressed how hard the Bengals continue to play under their head coach Zac Taylor last season and this one, considering that they always seem to be in the game, but never win them. You have to wonder how long they can keep this up if they don't start winning a few games.
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As one of the cleveland.com articles put it, the defense looks like Garrett, Ward, and 9 guys who can't tackle a gourd.
Regarding OBJ.. Still haven't heard or seen what the exact problem is for which "trade OBJ at any cost" is a remotely plausible solution. Only thing I can think of is "Just too many splash plays from the WR position."
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Two things which I thought. Baker sure looked better with OBJ not in the lineup. It will be interesting to see how Baker does the next few games (or longer) if OBJ's injury is serious like they think it is,
Second, I thought Joe Woods called a horrible game. It was obvious that Cinci had the Browns' number in regards to how much we were blitzing, but Joe never altered his strategy. If you are facing a rookie Qb it seems that there are two ways to face him- either bring the blitz or disguise the back 7's alignment. I didn't see us disguising our coverage much at all. We kept blitzing and we kept getting burnt by it.
Two things which I thought. Baker sure looked better with OBJ not in the lineup. It will be interesting to see how Baker does the next few games (or longer) if OBJ's injury is serious like they think it is.
The OBJ conundrum... how to involve him without revolving around him which leads to forcing the ball to him.
I thought we had this solved back in the DAL/IND stretch... reverses, receiving throws by fellow member of the WR room, later throwing to that fellow member... it just seemed solved. We actually caught a glimpse of the impact player we hoped we were getting... a player returning to the form that put his name with the best in the league at his position.
Then today we had to try to throw deep to him right away? I don't know if it was forced, but it sure as hell wasn't in the rhythm of the Offense. And the result was predictable...
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It was nice to see Baker moving his eyes at time. More importantly - being decisive on the shorter throws.
Can he continue this past the Raiders though...?
We'll see.
It was nice to see Baker moving his eyes at time. More importantly - being decisive on the shorter throws. Can he continue this past the Raiders though...?
We'll see.
What caught my eye was his ball placement... it was fricken unreal today. Lead by the TD to Njoku.
Plus he was fitting balls in over the top of defenders. The GW TD to Peeps was one, but an even better example was the preceding pass to Higgins, And there were several more examples.
Like to hear your take, but my impression was that Cinci was not disguising its D... was not changing coverages post snap.
"When you have a shared vision it is a lot easier to make unpopular decisions." - Paul DePodesta "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." - Paul Brown Complete 2017 Browns Board Mock: http://thebrownsboard.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46196 -
OBJ's injury gets
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Great hard fought win. We always used to lose those. When Mitchell dropped the INT. We always used to lose those. When Burrow threw that perfect Hail Mary, and the WR tapped it backwards towards the two guys they had stationed there (well designed) and it instead went into our guy's chest. We always used to lose those.
Gutsy performance by Landry. They have no mercy on him. They keep running him with the ball with a cracked rib.
Bryant made the catches he had to make and helped us big time today.
Rashard Higgins got more involved as the game went on. He helped us in a big way today.
Peoples-Jones hung in there and made the plays that he was targeted on towards the end of the game including the really great catch game-winner!
I've been losing faith in Baker in recent weeks...to the point where I didn't have any faith that he could engineer a game winning drive. And the game started off underscoring my lack of faith with that int. And it ended with him orchestrating a beautiful, no time outs, 75 yards in a minute game winner! Congrats to Baker!
Myles with another one of them strip-sack thingys.
Denzel Ward knocking that TD out of the receiver's hands! Big Play!
- With Parkey missing the final XP, I felt that we should've kicked it out of the back of the end zone and make them start at the 25 rather than the 40ish where they got it.
On my Browns Schedule I had this game listed as a Must Win. We have to beat the teams that we're supposed to beat. (I've got 7 Must Win games on the schedule. We're 3 for 3 so far...with the Raiders coming up as another Must Win)
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