Bengals1181 Posted October 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Wasn’t 24 day today but I be at it again next week , great win who dey !!!!! — ADAm Pacman Jones (@REALPACMAN24) October 13, 2013 And that will cap off a perfect weekend. #WhoDey — Reid Fragel (@Fragel79) October 13, 2013 #whodey great win — Chris Pressley (@ChrisPressley36) October 13, 2013 It’s good! Bengals WIN! Bengals WIN! Bengals WIN! #CINvsBUF — Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals) October 13, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengals1181 Posted October 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - Andy Dalton used his unique brew of resourcefulness and resilience Sunday to lead his offense out of the firestorm of criticism into its most prolific day of the season during the 27-24 overtime victory over the Bills. Dalton, who gets ripped for not rolling up the big play or big numbers, was at his classic point guard best at Ralph Wilson Stadium when he made enough plays to throw three touchdown passes, jack his career record to 23-15, his road record to 12-7, and put the Bengals into first place in the AFC North by themselves with 483-yard effort that tied the best in his 38 NFL starts and is the most in a victory. Sunday should have solved the identity crisis once and for all because not only does the offensive line like to mix it up in the running game, but the numbers say so does Dalton and the rest of the team like that balance. The Bengals are now 15-1 under Dalton when they have at least 30 rushes and in those 16 games he has thrown 24 touchdown passes and 12 interceptions. On Sunday he didn't have a pretty 40-yard touchdown bomb like his opposite number, Bills journeyman Thad Lewis in his second NFL start, and for the second straight game he threw an ill-advised interception. But when the smoke cleared Dalton had his second 100 passer rating of the season (105.9) on 26-of-40 passing for 337 yards and distributed the ball well enough to eight different receivers on screens, swings and seams, to rack up over 100 yards after catch. "We feel like we have lots of options here. Like you said, we have a bunch of guys catching balls and making plays for us. My job is to spread it out to our guys. It is good to see A.J. (Green) do what he did today but we have a bunch of guys that were making plays and it is fun to see," Dalton said. "A.J. made some big plays, gave him chances to make plays and he made them so we just have to continue to do that." After watching his regular-season record go over .500 for the first time since September 2008 and the first Bengals win in Buffalo in 28 years, head coach Marvin Lewis gave a thumbs-up to his quarterback. "I just don't want him to listen to you guys," Lewis said of the media jabs at Dalton and he doesn't have to worry. Dalton may have fiery red hair, but he combs it down. "Everybody can say whatever they want but everybody in the organization knows what is really going on and so for me," Dalton said. "It was good to come out and play well. Not only so that there will hopefully be some positive stuff written about us but just for this team, just to get a win. The most important thing is for us to win the game and we were able to do that today." The offense got out of its two-game funk in a big way with Green regaining his two-time Pro Bowl touch with 103 yards on six catches and the running game following up its 162-yard effort against New England with 165 more that featured a season-high 86 yards on 18 carries by running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis and seven sneaky runs by Dalton for 17 more against Buffalo's highly-regarded front seven. And when does running back Giovani Bernard become a lock for AFC Offensive Rookie of the Year? After another highlight film touchdown catch-and-run, Bernard has four touchdowns and is on pace for a Bengals-record 465 receiving yards by a back. The offense that came into the game scrounging for just one touchdown in the last 130 minutes, pumped in three with 10:49 left in the third quarter with Green getting help with career days in the passing game from second-year wide receiver Marvin Jones (71 yards on three catches) and Bernard (72 yards on six catches) as the Bengals also came up with their longest run of the year on Jones's 34-yard reverse. "I felt like we had the whole balanced attack going with the running game and the passing game," said Green, who along with Jones used screens to generate the receivers' first plus-40-yard plays since the Sept. 8 opener. "I got some shots to make a play and a lot of the other guys made some plays and that really helped me out because they kept singling me." On the snap before he floated an 18-yard touchdown pass to Green on a post-corner route that gave the Bengals a 10-7 lead late in the first quarter, Dalton generated a first down on his third-and-six scramble in which he made rookie sensation middle linebacker Kiko Alonso miss for the final yard. Dalton then saw Green working one-on-one on cornerback Leodis McKelvin in the back right corner of the end zone and Green wrenched it off McKelvin's back before going out of bounds. It was a play the Bengals hadn't come close to making for the past two weeks as Green and Dalton struggled to get on the proverbial same page. "It was a good ball by Andy. He gave me a shot and I went up and made the play," Green said. Green's longest play of the season came on the next drive when his 54-yard ramble on a wide-open screen was set up by the rampaging blocks of left tackle Andrew Whitworth and wide receiver Mohamed Sanu. Whitworth was particularly frightening as he roared into space and cut down 188-pound safety Jim Leonhard like he was picking wild flowers. "That was good; he set it all up," Green said. "Whit is probably one of the best we've got. He got out there and ran and created that separation for me. I just hit it. I got caught, but it was a good chunk play." It set up Dalton's swashbuckling 20-yard touchdown pass to Bernard. Dalton stepped up as the pocket collapsed and shoveled it to him at the 16 before Bernard proceeded to make four tacklers miss. "I felt pressure and I had to step up and Giovani was there and doing a little improvising and kind of shuffled it to him," Dalton said. "It was the easiest way to get it to him. I don’t know how many guys missed and we scored a touchdown. You’ve seen him do that before; he did it against Pittsburgh and I was just making plays." Throw in Dalton's patient third-and-eight throw from the Bills 8 early in the third quarter that found Marvin Jones improvising as Dalton bought time running out of the pocket for a 10-yard touchdown and isn't that what quarterbacks do? "Like we said, it all starts with running the football," Whitworth said. "If we run the football well then they’ve got to cover everybody else. You start running the ball well, you can’t double A.J. as much, and then when you start singling everybody up because you’re trying to get an extra guy to stop the run it provides opportunity for all the guys that have matchups to win." Like those lethal flares to Bernard and the screen to Green. "I’ve always felt good in space, and always felt that was one of the plusses in my game. We were able to do that some, get out there in space and do some things, it was fun," Whitworth said. Dalton spent his postgame session shrugging. There had been a headline earlier in the week blown up from a comment from cornerback Adam Jones talking about Dalton's new weapons and the headline making the assumption he hadn't done enough with them. "That’s the media, that is the media twisting things and for Adam, he is a guy who has my back 100 percent," Dalton said. "If you go ask him if he is confident in me, if I am one of his guys, he would definitely say that I am. So that’s where you just can’t worry about the stuff that is written. It is easy to take one thing out of context and twist and turn and say whatever you want, but all that matters is that we are 4-2 right now, we are winning games, and we have to keep getting better." The Bengals still had to overcome more madness in the overtime. Green said he fouled up the first snap, thinking that Dalton had changed the play to a run. But he hadn't and Green was called for pass interference as he went to block. Yet he came back on the next play and got a big 12-yard pickup on another screen. "The overtime was just like all the time; we didn't flinch," Green said. "(This game was) not just for the critics, but ourselves. We'd only scored a touchdown the last couple of games, so just to come in here and move the ball like we did gives us another boost." http://www.bengals.com/news/article-1/Dalton-point-guards-Bengals-into-first/487b5754-857d-40ce-a2df-b6ea541b1d80 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zins30 Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 4-2 on to the next one , #WhoDey — Geno Atkins (@GenoSacks) October 13, 2013 Thanks God for everything #Blessed — Geno Atkins (@GenoSacks) October 13, 2013 Way to Grind it out… Great Win today for #WhoDeyNation#WhoDey http://t.co/0UTDs4sRNF — Carlos Dunlap (@Carlos_Dunlap) October 13, 2013 Great win fellas! #WhoDey — Mohamed Sanu (@Mo_12_Sanu)October 13, 2013 Not the way we wanted to do it but got the result we wanted and that’s the win! — James Harrison (@jharrison9292) October 13, 2013 Getting ready to fly back to Cincinnati and rest up, then right back at it Monday am! — James Harrison (@jharrison9292) October 13, 2013 Otw back to my city Cincinnati. Great win today! God is so good!! How about them #Bengals #Whodey… http://t.co/ASQIMvkfne — Domata Peko (@DomataPeko) October 13, 2013 First career overtime game and victory. On to the next. Blessed.#WhoDey — George Iloka (@George_iloka) October 13, 2013 1st win on the road. Good win for the team and for our fans back home watching. #whodey — Rey Maualuga (@maualuga58)October 13, 2013 Great team Win #WhoDey — Andre Smith (@BigSmitty71)October 13, 2013 Wasn’t 24 day today but I be at it again next week , great win who dey !!!!! — ADAm Pacman Jones (@REALPACMAN24) October 13, 2013 And that will cap off a perfect weekend. #WhoDey — Reid Fragel (@Fragel79) October 13, 2013 #whodey great win — Chris Pressley (@ChrisPressley36) October 13, 2013 It’s good! Bengals WIN! Bengals WIN! Bengals WIN! #CINvsBUF — Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals) October 13, 2013 Love seeing these quotes. These guys really seem like a close-knit team and are thankful for the fan support too. Makes it easy to root for these guys (at least for most of us)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.A.B. Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Yeah, I love this team. I also hate this team. But 99% of the time I love this team. Even the 1% where I hate them, I still love them. :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengals1181 Posted October 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 OFFENSE QUARTERBACK Snaps Pct. Andy Dalton 86 100% RUNNING BACK Snaps Pct. Giovani Bernard 50 58% BenJarvus Green-Ellis 35 41% Domata Peko 0 0% Cedric Peerman 0 0% TIGHT END Snaps Pct. Jermaine Gresham 78 91% Tyler Eifert 66 77% Alex Smith 17 20% Orson Charles 1 1% WIDE RECEIVER Snaps Pct. A.J. Green 82 95% Mohamed Sanu 58 67% Marvin Jones 26 30% Brandon Tate 8 7% Dane Sanzenbacher 3 3% Ryan Whalen DNP OFFENSIVE LINE Snaps Pct. Kyle Cook 86 100% Andre Smith 86 100% Clint Boling 86 100% Andrew Whitworth 86 100% Kevin Zeitler 86 100% Anthony Collins 7 8% DEFENSE DEFENSIVE END Snaps Pct. Michael Johnson 62 90% Carlos Dunlap 60 87% Wallace Gilberry 33 48% Margus Hunt DEFENSIVE TACKLE Snaps Pct. Geno Atkins 56 81% Domata Peko 39 57% Devon Still 13 19% Brandon Thompson 17 25% LINEBACKER Snaps Pct. Vontaze Burfict 69 100% Rey Maualuga 52 75% James Harrison 12 17% Vinnie Rey 4 6% Jayson DiManche 0 0% CORNERBACK Snaps Pct. Leon Hall 65 94% Terence Newman 54 78% Adam Jones 57 83% Dre Kirkpatrick 9 13% Brandon Ghee DNP SAFETY Snaps Pct. Reggie Nelson 65 94% George Iloka 69 100% Taylor Mays* 21 30% Chris Crocker 2 3% Shawn Williams 0 0% http://www.cincyjungle.com/bengals-bills/2013/10/14/4836124/bengals-vs-bills-bengals-snap-distribution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 QUARTERBACK Snaps Pct. Andy Dalton 86 100% Wrong. Sanu played QB for 1 snap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschooler Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Joe @BuffaloWins2m According to PFF, Andy Dalton completed 9 of 10 passes for 151 yards on throws that were completed behind the line of scrimmage. #screens Joe Reedy @joereedy Courtesy of #STATSFAN the #bengals are second in the AFC in YAC pic.twitter.com/h6Un6gfQdr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengals1181 Posted October 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Joe @BuffaloWins2m According to PFF, Andy Dalton completed 9 of 10 passes for 151 yards on throws that were completed behind the line of scrimmage. #screens Joe Reedy @joereedy Courtesy of #STATSFAN the #bengals are second in the AFC in YAC pic.twitter.com/h6Un6gfQdr they may reach #1 when Hawkins gets back, and that's a good thing. This offense should be built to rack up YAC. Top 5 includes two future hall of fame QB's. YAC is the name of the game in today's NFL. It's not about throwing deep consistently. It's about getting the ball into your playmakers hands and letting them make plays, and keeping defenses off-balance. You don't just line up and beat defensive schemes with regular routes. You have to outscheme them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschooler Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 ReFo: CIN @ BUF, Week 6Ben Stockwell | October 14, 2013 Coming off a home victory over the Patriots last Sunday, the Cincinnati Bengals avoided a letdown defeat a week later as they traveled to upstate New York and edged the Buffalo Bills in overtime. This game could, and should, have been more comfortable for the Bengals after they established a two-touchdown lead, but the Bills, behind Thaddeus Lewis, fought their way back into this game to push the Bengals far closer than many would have expected. In an object lesson of how the inches can transform a game, the Bengals came up just short of a third-down conversion around halfway inside of three minutes left, punted the ball away and the Bills drove 86 yards in just a hair more than 90 seconds to tie the game. The Bills’ comeback was helped in no small part by big gains surrendered in the passing game that had as much to do with poor scheme and execution by the Bengals’ defense as it did with excellent execution and play-making by the Bills. However, in overtime the game was essentially settled by a Bills’ three-and-out in their own end which Brandon Tate followed up with a game-changing punt return. For the Bengals the positives are easy to see — another victory and the sole lead of the AFC North after Week 6 as they prepare to head to Detroit next Sunday. For the Bills there are still positives to draw in spite of a defeat that drops them to 2-4 and the foot of the AFC East. A team growing under Doug Marrone was not derailed by starting a quarterback who was on their practice squad just over a week ago, as Lewis played a key role in the comeback along with strong performances all over the roster. Cincinnati – Three Performances of Note Atkins Continues to Re-find His Form After getting off to a slow start by the standards he set last season, Geno Atkins has re-discovered the form we are more akin to in recent weeks, and continued that in both run and pass defense against the Bills on Sunday. As a pass rusher, Atkins set his second-best mark of the season with six pressures (2 Ht, 4 Hu) to earn a +2.7 pass rush grade, consistently generating pressure against the Bills’ interior offensive line even if he never quite made that big splash play as a pass rusher that we have seen him make many a time. Against the run he got off to a fine start, driving back Kraig Urbik to force Fred Jackson wide, preventing him from turning upfield on his first carry of the game as Carlos Dunlap cleaned the play up for a loss. He may not have been active in the tackle column this week, with just two, but Atkins got through plenty of good work stacking blockers and re-directing runs to allow others to make a play. In the past three weeks Atkins has earned a +15.3 overall grade, much more like what we’ve become accustomed to. Impact Performance from Marvin Jones Seeing the field on just 26 of the Bengals’ 88 offensive snaps, Marvin Jones’ playing time was down, having played in excess of 50% of Cincinnati’s snaps the Past three weeks, but he certainly made an impact when he was on the field. Earning the highest single game grade of his short career (+3.3) Jones made an impact both as a runner, a receiver, and as a blocker in an outing where, for the number of times you noticed him pop up you’d have assumed he played more than 25% of the Bengals’ snaps. He got himself started with a 34-yard gain on a reverse which put Cincinnati into field goal range on their opening drive, taking advantage of a breakdown in contain by the Bills to get into the open field and beat a tackle by Jerry Hughes. He followed this up with a 42-yard gain on the second drive which also sent the Bengals into field goal range and, like his reverse, featured a clear intent from Jay Gruden to get the ball into Jones’ hands early. Turning back for a quick screen that Andy Dalton just got over Mario Williams’ outstretched hands, Jones showed a nice burst to get through the first level before following the ever active and eager open field blocking of Andrew Whitworth (not his only lung-bursting run on a screen in this game) up the left side, running through an arm tackle from Stephon Gilmore to take the Bengals inside the Bills’ 30. After those two impact plays early on, Jones came back in the second half to throw a good block on a 12-yard gain by Mohammed Sanu, before finishing that drive with a touchdown in front of Leodis McKelvin. The Bengals are short of a consistent second receiving option and more performances like this from Jones will give Andy Dalton more to work with, and pile the pressure on the Bengals’ signal-caller to take that next step. A Game of Contrasts for Giovani Bernard When you think of Giovani Bernard’s performance in this game you will doubtless, and quite rightly, think of his work as a receiver — especially his electrifying 20-yard touchdown reception weaving through Buffalo defenders. Bernard forced four missed tackles as a receiver, proving to be a live-wire in space, but struggled to find that same space as a runner. His offensive line consistently ground out to a stalemate up front against the Bills’ talented defensive line, and as a result Bernard was struggling to find the creases he looks for to quickly get upfield away from the bigger bodies. In total, Bernard got only 4 yards before contact in this game, compared to 54 for BenJarvus Green-Ellis on only three more carries. Bernard also featured in more short-yardage situations than you might have expected, and was found a little wanting — often getting stung by first contact and not finding the second effort this week to spin off that contact. Bernard is an exciting work in progress, and it is pleasing to see the Bengals so willing to get him on the field and grow as a player rather than leave him on the sideline in key situations for fear that a young back might make a key mistake. This marked the third time this season Bernard has registered more snaps than Green-Ellis, and he now holds the season lead on snaps with 215 compared to 199. Buffalo – Three Performances of Note Hughes’ Redemption Continues in Buffalo After failing to make his impact in Indianapolis, Jerry Hughes has got a second chance in Buffalo and, aside from one performance, he is grasping that opportunity with both hands. Featuring in a career high 76 snaps off the bench, Hughes had an impact as both a pass rusher and run defender, overcoming his early missed tackle on Marvin Jones’ long gain on a reverse. He recorded three pressures as a pass rusher against the Bengals’ tackle pairing, one of the better in the league, while also drawing a holding penalty from Andrew Whitworth on a spin move that would have negated a key third-down conversion for the Bengals had A.J. Green’s left foot landed just infield. The theme with all of Hughes’ pressure was working to the inside of Whitworth and Andre Smith. It can be easy for pass rushers who come in as speed rushers to get too concerned with trying to tear past opposing tackles every play, but Hughes used that speed to set up his inside work this week. Hughes also added a batted pass and three stops in probably the most complete performance of his career to date. Nearly but not quite for Thaddeus Lewis Had he completed that comeback then Thaddeus Lewis’ one-week journey from practice squad to winning quarterback would have surely been one of the better stories of the season. As it was, Lewis fell just short, but his performance ensures he will be retained on the roster even when E.J. Manuel returns from injury. After an excellent start on the opening drive, finding T.J. Graham deep down the left side for a 47-yard gain before capping the drive with a dive to the end zone on a scramble, things went off the boil a little for Lewis through the middle of the game. After the Bills’ drove down to the Bengals’ goal line with option running from a spread formation, they went conservative and were turned back, with Lewis forced into taking a sack on fourth down. Before the late comeback, Lewis would have a fumble as a result of poor ball security and take another sack as the offense failed to generate much through the second and third quarters. Lewis came alive late and profited from some questionable play calling and execution from the Bengals’ defense. Only blitzed five times on his 41 drop-backs, two of those were Lewis’ fourth quarter touchdown passes to Scott Chandler and Marquise Goodwin — the pass to Chandler with Carlos Dunlap as the only man to track the Bills’ dangerous tight end was an easy mismatch to exploit. However, backed up in the shadow of their own uprights on their sole overtime drive, Lewis couldn’t hook up with Chris Hogan, leaving his throw low and behind, as the Bills’ came up short in the end. Branch Maximizes his Run Snaps He may be a fairly one dimensional defender but when he plays that one dimension as well as he did yesterday and the Bills can juggle his snaps as they did to exploit that strength you can always find room on your defense for a player like Alan Branch. Of his 48 defensive snaps Branch was defending the run on 31 of them (64.6%) and responded with five stops against the run, his most since Week 15 of the 2011 season in Chicago. Branch worked on both sides of the line getting the better of every member of the Bengals’ line except for Andrew Whitworth. This is Branch’s second “impact” game as a run defender having matched his +2.0 run defense grade against the Jets in Week 3, if he can provide more consistent displays like this then the Bills will be much tougher to run on. Game Notes - Second-year linebacker Nigel Bradham registered more snaps (41) in this game than he had combined (40) in the first five weeks of the season. - James Harrison (+1.6) continues to have an impact on limited snaps, registering three stops on only 12 snaps, his second-lightest workload of the season. - Pressured 11 times, Thaddeus Lewis attempted only four passes (zero completions) and was sacked five times with two scrambles. PFF Game Ball His playing time was down, but Marvin Jones had a big impact in many different ways in the best performance of his career to date. https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2013/10/14/refo-cin-buf-week-6/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRAPradio Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Yeah, I love this team. I also hate this team. But 99% of the time I love this team. Even the 1% where I hate them, I still love them. :ninja: My thoughts exactly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschooler Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Joe @BuffaloWins10m PFF: The Bengals hardly blitzed Thad, but got burned when they did. Thad was 3 of 4 for 109 yards and 2tds when the Bengals blitzed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange 'n Black Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Joe @BuffaloWins10m PFF: The Bengals hardly blitzed Thad, but got burned when they did. Thad was 3 of 4 for 109 yards and 2tds when the Bengals blitzed Seems like the Bengals D ALWAYS gets burned on the blitz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschooler Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Joe @BuffaloWins18m Bills didnt even come close to attacking Hall. Hall gave up just 3 catches for 11yds. They did have success against Newman/Jones- 7/136yds Joe @BuffaloWins25m Starting to think the Bills' defense might have figured out how to defend TEs. Gresham/Eifert only caught 4 passes for 18 yards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengals1181 Posted October 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 The Bengals still had to overcome more madness in the overtime. Green said he fouled up the first snap, thinking that Dalton had changed the play to a run. But he hadn't and Green was called for pass interference as he went to block. Yet he came back on the next play and got a big 12-yard pickup on another screen. it was more than just Green. The WR up at the top (Sanu?) also played it like a run. That's why no one was open and Dalton had to scramble to find AJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengals1181 Posted October 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Mike Zimmer made the decision at half-time to "ditch" the game-plan that they practiced all week, using Lewis as a "key" in the read-option, writes Paul Dehner Jr. with the Cincinnati Enquirer. "It helped out big because it took some of the thinking out of it," said defensive end Wallace Gilberry via the Enquirer. "Guys were able to just run down and make plays. The dive was hurting us. Coach made a great adjustment and we keyed in on it. Second half we shut it down." Buffalo's rushing game became neutralized, rushing for 37 yards in the second half; though Thad Lewis was nearly flawless in the fourth quarter, completing nine of 13 passes for 131 yards, two touchdowns and a passer rating of 141.3. http://www.cincyjungle.com/bengals-bills/2013/10/14/4836616/mike-zimmer-half-time-adjustment-gave-the-defense-life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alleycat Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 and yes on Gio. They finally started using him to max capacity yesterday. There's no shame in those swing passes out in the flat to him. Use it and take the free 15yds. I said it during the game thread but those "swing passes" were dropped right in his breadbasket while he was on the run. The pursuing LB's simply have no chance. It's a lethal weapon that I hope we continue to hone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschooler Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 700WLW Cincinnati @700wlw4m A win is a win, see what people around the country are saying about the Bengals after yesterday's OT win in... http://fb.me/2SSpq15n9 Geoff Hobson: The Bengals were able to escape with the win after allowing the Bills 14 fourth-quarter points to tie the game at 24 when quaterback Thad Lewis hit wide receiver Marquise Goodwin for a 40-yard scoring pass with 1:08 remaining. Joe Reedy: Whitney Houston no longer has to be a trivia answer in Bengals history. Coley Harvey: Two weeks ago, the word "atrocious" might have been the most accurate way to describe the Bengals' passing woes in a 17-6 loss to Cleveland. The effort made some in the fan base call for offensive coordinator Jay Gruden to lose his job and for quarterback Andy Dalton to be replaced. Since then, though, the masses have tamed a bit. Paul Dehner Jr: The first happy road locker room of the season made from interesting reflections from the players following the overtime win. Here were a few of the more interesting quotes to come out of the postgame interviews: Kevin Goheen: Marvin Lewis uses the term "flinch" to describe composure. Losing a 14-point lead in the fourth quarter of game against a team with an inexperienced quarterback would seem to qualify as flinching. That would be flinching in a bad way. If you’re lucky, you get a second or third chance to not flinch. Associated Press: Brandon Tate’s 29-yard punt return to the Bills 33 set up the decisive score. Cincinnati improved to 16-11-1 in overtime games, and snapped a six-game losing streak at Orchard Park, dating to 1985. ESPN: "You hate to have to do it this way, but that's what we're stuck doing right now," Lewis said. "We'll just keep coaching hard and try to prevent this." CBS Sports: Nice to see AJ Green finally get back on track and Giovani Bernard just keeps doing insanely impressive stuff on the field. Andy Dalton remains a question mark. Giving up a lot of big plays to this Bills offense is not a good look. Read more: http://www.700wlw.com/pages/lancesBlog.html?article=11733722#ixzz2hhuGOWR2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coup000 Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 I said it during the game thread but those "swing passes" were dropped right in his breadbasket while he was on the run. The pursuing LB's simply have no chance. It's a lethal weapon that I hope we continue to hone. Yep, right on the money, key to the YAC he was able to get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschooler Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 CBS Sports: Nice to see AJ Green finally get back on track and Giovani Bernard just keeps doing insanely impressive stuff on the field. Andy Dalton remains a question mark. :facepalm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengals1181 Posted October 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 I said it during the game thread but those "swing passes" were dropped right in his breadbasket while he was on the run. The pursuing LB's simply have no chance. It's a lethal weapon that I hope we continue to hone. yep and its a play they can start using to close out games. Dalton in the shotgun flanked by both BJGE and Bernard. Bernard goes out for the swing pass and Dalton has the option of passing it to Bernard or handing it to BJGE depending on how the LB's react. and just to mix it up, occasionally you send BJGE out for the pass and Bernard in to run. When Hawkins is back you can also mix him in instead of BJGE, and I wouldn't even mind seeing some read option out of that formation with BJGE as a lead blocker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scharm Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 I will say. The last two Ints the cameras have caught Dalton and Gruden looking like they are in disagreement over something. Could be typical TV taking the opportunity to create drama like they try to do. It's been successful as both times it paints the picture those two aren't seeing eye to eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschooler Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Doc: Bengals still working on winning pretty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alleycat Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Joe @BuffaloWins10m PFF: The Bengals hardly blitzed Thad, but got burned when they did. Thad was 3 of 4 for 109 yards and 2tds when the Bengals blitzed Amazing. That means he was 16 of 28 for 105 yards and no TD's when we didn't blitz. I was nodding along with Boomer at the end of the game when Solly asked him if the Bengals would be blitzing again. NO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|kennethmw| Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 CBS Sports: Nice to see AJ Green finally get back on track and Giovani Bernard just keeps doing insanely impressive stuff on the field. Andy Dalton remains a question mark. :facepalm: Exactly. Did he even watch the game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alleycat Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 I will say. The last two Ints the cameras have caught Dalton and Gruden looking like they are in disagreement over something. Could be typical TV taking the opportunity to create drama like they try to do. It's been successful as both times it paints the picture those two aren't seeing eye to eye. This leads directly to a question I just asked in another thread. THIS IS PURE SPECULATION, BUT... It seems to me that one of the two is causing the ball to be forced. Is it a predetermined playcall that Gruden is asking Dalton to "quick hit" and then after it gets picked Andy basically has to say, "hey, you wanted me to quick hit it"? I could easily see that being the situation and Gruden is going, "yeah, but you still can't force it." That would exasperate me if I were Andy. I could just as easily see that Andy is the one forcing it (where it shouldn't go) and Gruden is getting on his case. In that case, it's all on Dalton and let's hope he continues to improve in this regard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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