PatternMaster

Amen, brother...it's 3rd and 1 and the Bengals are moving the ball and Zac wants to get cute, just run the ball with Mixon twice for a first down if you have to. When he calls a game like it's a must-win game he's good, when he's having success he gets too silly with the play calling. He tends to overcomplicate things at times when it is unnecessary, football is a simple game, so there is no need to make it harder than it needs to be.

The Stealers are going to come out pissed off and fighting like a wounded, cornered animal. The Bengals should commit to the run to keep the Stealers offense off the field, keep the crowd out of the game, and limit potential turnovers. They got exposed in the run game without their starting safeties and Cam Heyward and the Bengals should look to do the same. This is the time of the year when you can lean on defense with a bad offense and wear them down mentally and physically, just like the Colts did last week. Chase will be out so our best WR is out of the game as well, just another reason to go run-heavy this game. It's going to be a tough game as Tomlin will have his guys ready to go after a few embarrassing losses, the Stealers have a ton of pride and Tomlin is a HOF coach who makes sure the Stealers are ready to give it their best.

He might be done for the year, a shoulder injury takes time. I injured mine in January and it took months to get it back to a normal range of motion but it still has some lasting effects. Now obviously Ja'Marr is an elite athlete but still, he will be out for a few weeks at the very least. This is a great opportunity for everyone if you think about it because they all have something to prove. Higgins and Boyd are upcoming free agents that have struggled with injuries and drops so this is a great opportunity to prove they can step up and be the guys to drive this pass-centric offense. Irwin and the rookies are playing to show that they can be reliable targets is Higgins and Boyd leave via FA. Yes, the Bengals will miss Ja'Marr but they have other weapons who are more than capable of winning out the remainder of games.

The rest of the NFL might not value him like the Bengals do, if they offer him a modest contract like 5 mil per year I think he takes it.

They are definitely going to have to step up on defense, especially run defense. Josh Tupou and Zach Carter are going to have to play lights out...the LBs as well, they struggled getting guys to the ground vs Pissburg. Tribunsky is not very good and he's turnover-prone, make him beat em and I like the Bengals chances.

If he does have an AC Joint sprain, there is no way he plays on Saturday. We can beat the Stealers without him as their offense is struggling and it's unraveling fast in Pittsburgh. The players seem to be quitting on the coaches and legends like Big Ben are calling out the coaching staff in the media. It's going to be a tough game because of the familiarity and rivalry but if the Bengals can protect Browning they should get the win.

They had a horse collar and targeting all before half time... Tomlin is Sensi Kreese, TJ Watt is Johnny, and the Stealers are Cobra Kai...

Every time a Steeler gets hurt an angel gets his wings

Good ol Stiller football, they are dirty cheap shot artists. Kazee got ejected for playing Stiller football

https://sports.yahoo.com/chiefs-wr-kadarius-toney-calls-offsides-penalty-bogus-and-says-refs-lied-about-warning-172609601.html Toney doesn't seem to think he did anything wrong. “Whether it was, an inch, two inches, whatever in front of the ball, the referee got a job to let me know, I guess you could say. He didn’t make no effort," he said Thursday. "You watch the video, he didn’t make no effort to say anything about no alignment. So apparently, he wanted to do that." The entitlement and ignorance is astounding...apparently it's the refs job to keep the Cheifs players from committing penalities...wow..I guess they don't what the word accountability means.

Thanks for sharing, I will check it out.

It's like Ray J vs Kanye West for the battle of Kim K...lol

It's crazy if you think about how much went wrong and all the wild shit that went down while he was HC...it would make a good 30 for 30..

He was a good HC as well, one of the best this franchise has ever had, definitely top 5. He just couldn't win the big game, that was his ultimate weakness...if every game was at 1 pm EST he would be a great coach, it was when the bright lights came on that he puckered up and couldn't get it done. Glad to see him mentor Pierce, maybe if Pierce gets the HC job he will be apart of his staff in some capacity. If Marvin has Joe Burrow I think he would have been a HOF level coach or if Carson didn't shred his knee in 2005 and Chris Henry die a few months later...things could have been different.

Exactly, he had a few good games but let's not put him the HOF just yet. Full disclosure, I wanted the Bengals to draft Jones and was disappointed when he wasn't but they have access to may more info on these guys than we do. He might have medical issues that aren't disclosed to the public and his unusual size and weight could be a problem for him if/when he gets hurt. To your point about him rehabbing, that will be a huge test as he will have to work hard to get back, lose weight, etc..so only time will tell. I just wish he was on the Bengals so I could root for him, but he's not so.....

That last game of the year could be for the playoffs, should be fun to see it play out .

At some point the injuries have to catch up to the Browns and they start losing some games..

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/15/biden-extremist-jewish-settlers-travel-ban-loophole Too often, Arabs get sterotyped and labeled as terrorist but when terrorist don't fit the mold we have cast them we as a country should still fight them the same way. For decades we have waged a war on terror but it seems as if we are exporting terrorist and don't doing anything to stop it.

Exactly, one of the owners of the team is charge of scouting/personnel so he's not going to fire himself. They don't break it down by position group, the scouting is done regionally. They have input from the coaches on what type of guy they like, but there's no o-line specific scout. I think it's more of a development issue and that is an NFL/football problem not just the Bengals, there's like 5 teams that have what many consider to be a good offensive line, and the rest of the teams are struggling to figure it out. The biggest problem is the level of coaching that exists in the high school and college ranks don't properly prepare guys for the NFL game. When you have hacks like Jim Turner teaching young guys how to play offensive line then it's no wonder why many of the offensive line players come into the NFL not prepared to play at a high level. If teams paid offensive line coaches higher salaries, promoted offensive line coaches to HC positions, etc...then you would see the quality of the players evolve. Being an offensive line coach is typically a dead-end job, there like 1 or 2 guys who have been offensive line coaches and ascended to be an HC so if you are a talented coach why would you want to be an offensive line coach unless you just really love it and don't have aspirations of being a HC.

The Bengals and my fantasy team need him to have a big game, it's the playoffs...

Nick Scott is on the bench, he's athletic but he doesn't seem to be the brightest guy..he was consistently out of place and taking bad angles. Battle is playing more consistent ball, as they play more snaps together they should improve and continue.

I hope the refs call offsides and more holding penalties on the Chiefs. Mahomes really fucked up, he showed up the refs after they have protected him for years, they literally gave him the first game of the season when they didn't call a single penalty on his RT that lined up 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage(illegal formation) and false started every damn snap. They have had 3 games in which the refs helped them win this year and that's still not enough. Hopefully the refs take away his golden boy status and call it like they do for every other team in the NFL.

Big Ben throws Mike Tomin under bus on his podcast, says the team lost due to bad coaching... https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/ben-roethlisberger-cites-Stealers-bad-coaching-as-problem-in-loss-to-patriots I hope the Stealers ownership agrees and fires Tomlin so they can really be a bad team like they deserve to be.

Would this be the Empire Strikes Back to be followed by Return of the Sith..

From my perspective, it reminds me of this country's ugly history of chattel slavery and how white men owned other humans and decided what they could and could not do with their bodies. I've never understood why the government felt the need to legislate this issue, it's a morality issue and there is supposed to be a separation of church and state. If you believe that abortion is not aligned with your religious beliefs, that's fine, but you should not have the right to force your religious beliefs onto others and codify that belief, especially when the mother of the unborn child's life is in danger.