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Rivers passer rating was an 80.0... his lowest of the season. His 62.2% completion rate is his worst since week one.


Season-high 92 yards for Green-Ellis in #Bengals 17-10 win.


The #Bengals talked all last week about going 5-0 to end the season. Game 1 is in the books. They win, 17-10. Now 8-4.


BenJarvus Green-Ellis in the fourth quarter: 11 carries, 49 yards, 3 first downs... and a fumble.

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    1. hell of job on Woodhead: 7 carries 22 yards (long 7), 3 catches 13 yards (long 9). #Bengals

    2. Update: Dalton better head-to-head QB rating vs Rivers Rodgers, Brady, Ben and Stafford this year.#Bengals

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    I wish I could hear it.  Post game is blacked out right now in I heart radio, darnit.

     

     

    yea I noticed that.  Thought the sound on my ipad was broken at first.  Even at the start of the game I was at least getting some loser at WLW.  Now I'm just getting silence.

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    Marvin Lewis doesn't sound encouraging on Clint Boling's knee injury. http://sbn.to/1cU67KR 

     

     

    Pretty much mandates that we draft a LG or OT early next year.  Would be great to resign AC no matter what, but I can't imagine he wants to stick around knowing he can start.  Unlike his previous FA periods, this time he has some real good and recent tape to rely on.

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    Just for everyone's reference, there is an app called Pro Audio (the icon is a football helmet with a wi-fi signal beside it) that has never let me down for streaming audio.  It gives you 10 local channel options from the local feeds.  I can't remember if I paid for it, but if I did it cost  $.99

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    Before the game, all week long the pundits were picking the Chargers because they were so hot after winning in Kansas City.

     

    Now, they're saying that the Chargers basically suck because this was their fourth loss in five games.

     

    We will never get any credit...unless, of course, we win a Super Bowl.

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    Before the game, all week long the pundits were picking the Chargers because they were so hot after winning in Kansas City.

     

    Now, they're saying that the Chargers basically suck because this was their fourth loss in five games.

     

    We will never get any credit...unless, of course, we win a Super Bowl.

     

    This is a useful way of separating the idiot pundits from the ones you might listen to going forward.  Their good opinion means nothing.

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    http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000291048/article/cincinnati-bengals-run-wild-on-san-diego-chargers

     

    The San Diego Chargers' defense knew what was coming. And they still couldn't stop the Cincinnati Bengals from running it down their throats.

    Here's what we learned from Cincinnati's huge 17-10 victory in San Diego:

     

    1. The Bengals got the ball back with 4:48 left in the game, up seven points. The Chargers didn't touch the ball again. BenJarvus Green-Ellis and Giovani Bernard ran it up the gut on San Diego all day. The Bengals rushed the ball 38 times and passed it just 23 times on the day.

    2. Andy Dalton had an embarrassing first half with 41 yards and an interception on a woeful deep ball that looked like punctured balloon. He was much sharper in the second half. Give Dalton and Bengals offensive coordinator Jay Gruden credit for staying aggressive at times when the situation called for it in the fourth quarter.

    3. Antonio Gates lost one fumble and dropped another pass that was picked off. Chargers rookie wide receiver Keenan Allen also lost a fumble. It was a strange game for Philip Rivers; San Diego kept turning the ball over through no fault of his own.

    4. This is the Bengals' recipe for relevance in the playoffs: A suffocating defense, great running and just enough plays from Dalton. At 8-4, it's much harder to imagine the Bengals blowing their AFC North lead now.

    5. No defense has more coverage busts than the Chargers'. When guys get open against their secondary, they get wide open. And too often the Chargers give up big plays after the catch like a crucial Andrew Hawkins catch and run in the second half.

    6. Hawkins adds another element to the Bengals' offense now that he's rounding into form. With rookie tight end Tyler Eifert playing inconsistent, it's good for Dalton to get another receiver in the slot.

    7. The Chargers' defense didn't have a QB hit or sack Sunday. We wouldn't rule out any team that has a quarterback playing so well, but that's why this team isn't likely to make a late season run to the playoffs. At 5-7, they need to win out.

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    Before the game, all week long the pundits were picking the Chargers because they were so hot after winning in Kansas City.

     

    Now, they're saying that the Chargers basically suck because this was their fourth loss in five games.

     

    We will never get any credit...unless, of course, we win a Super Bowl.

     

    We could win the Super Bowl and still be 3rd in the media power rankings.

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    Quick hits; What a rush; Tez's gritty 13

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    hobson60x60.jpg Geoff Hobson Editor Bengals.com Follow Me Blog

    SAN DIEGO – When the Bengals offensive line got shuffled early in the Bengals' 17-10 victory over the Chargers Sunday at Qualcomm Stadium, they dug deep and came up with a season-high 164 rushing yards. But most importantly they netted the final 32 yards of the game that kept the ball away from the Chargers in the final four minutes with eight straight runs, seven by running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis on the way to 92 yards on 20 carries.

    Left tackle Anthony Collins, who moved from right tackle to left when head coach Marvin Lewis indicated left guard Clint Boling suffered a season-ending knee injury in the fourth quarter, talked about the 150-yard rushing sign in the offensive line's room. They've only hit it three times this season and not since October.

    "All we see is no, no, no, yes, no, no, no," Collins said. "This time it's going to feel good to go into our meeting room. And we put it on our back and we won the game."

    Left tackle Andrew Whitworth moved to left guard and Andre Smith came off the bench to play right tackle in place of Collins. Smith is the starter, but Lewis wouldn't say why Smith was benched.

    "It was old school with Whit in there," Green- Ellis said. "He's so big, when he pulls I can't even see the linebacker."

    Green-Ellis figured he ran that power play where Whitworth pulls about 10 times and center Kyle Cook said they ran it on the last one that killed the clock for good, a five-yarder on third-and-four.

    With about seven minutes left, Green-Ellis suffered a crushing fumble as the Bengals drove into the red zone at the Chargers 20 with a 17-7 lead when he lost the handle as he converted a third-and-one.

    "I was glad the defense held them to only a field goal and the line had my back," Green-Ellis said.

    TACKLING TEZ: Lewis was left shaking his head after what he called another "special," performance by second-year WILL backer Vontaze Burfict.  Burfict turned his ankle in practice Friday and it was bad enough that Lewis said, "Not many guys would have played…but he's got special powers."

    No one who saw Burfict at Saturday's walk through thought he would play. But the NFL's leading tackler came up with 13 more gritty ones as he barely came off the field.

    Burfict said he assured Lewis he could play, but he admitted, "He was second guessing himself."

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