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<blockquote data-quote="Shanghai Pack" data-source="post: 514622" data-attributes="member: 9293"><p>Hey guys, I watch these games using the NFL.com replay the morning after (time zones man), so I only just finished it.</p><p></p><p>Well that sucked. I thought we'd end up losing a close one, but I didn't see it being on such a heartbreaking/fluky play as the Franklin fumble (not that Franklin fumbling was the fluke, but more how it was picked up, fumbled again and run 70 yrds back). I'm not particularly worried long term from this game though except for three things (I'll get to them in a second). But the Bengals are a good team, and solid in all aspects of the game. Their defense is very impressive. I think before the season, if you had looked at the schedule objectively, this would have seemed like the 2nd or 3rd hardest game we had for the whole year, so unless you believed the team was going to go 15-1 again, a close loss was probably the most likely outcome. </p><p></p><p>The things that concern me moving forward are:</p><p></p><p>1. The injuries. We've been the most injured team in football I think for the last three years and early into this season we're not faring any better. Starks, Lacy, Kuhn, Finley, Matthews, Hayward, Burnett and probably some others I'm forgetting have already missed big chunks of games or been declared out of them outright. The concussions can't be helped, but it does sure seem like we're losing a lot of guys to hamstrings and then that their recovery time is taking extra long. It's starting to feel like our trainers and medical staff might systematically be doing something wrong and I hope it can be righted. Luckily none of these injuries appears to be a long term/serious one and we do have the bye next, so maybe the timing of that worked out really well in the end.</p><p></p><p>2. Rodgers was right, McCarthy needed to go for it at the on 4 and at 2 in the middle of the 2nd. It's objectively the better decision (compared to a FG) and even if we got stuffed at the point of the game our defense was on fire and would have had them backed up deep. But my real concern is McCarthy's inconsistency. He was aggressive against the Skins going for it on 4 and whatever on the first TD to Cobb and aggressive on the 4th and 1 to Franklin at the end of the game. Even though that play turned out horribly horribly wrong, I think it's the right call. I don't understand his dramatic oscillation from being super aggressive to being super passive. </p><p></p><p>3. The best (worst?) for last. Jeremy Ross can't be our kick returner anymore. He's not particularly explosive in the actual returns and, just, wow, my god, does he make horrendous decisions at times. The fumble speaks for itself, but he damned near had another huge blunder on the kickoff that went out of bounds at the 2. It sure looked like to me that he was just about ready to stop the ball, pick it up and go right before it went out of bounds (I actually thought that's what he did originally before I saw it on the replay). I'm new to this site, so I wasn't here in the preseason, but my only issue with the cuts for the final roster was I had hoped Tyrone Walker or Charles Johnson made the team over Ross. Sure they're probably not great return men either, but neither is Jeremy Ross. At least they might have enough sense to not cause calamitous fumbles or destroy our field position through bad decision making.</p><p></p><p>Best news is that's really the hard stretch of our schedule and it's over. 1-2 is not ideal, but not earth-ending. We'll be down a few games to the Bears but we'll have the chances to beat them. My preseason prediction was 11-5 with us winning the division and it factored in that we'd lose to both the Bengals and Niners. So I'm sticking to it. Let's go Pack.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shanghai Pack, post: 514622, member: 9293"] Hey guys, I watch these games using the NFL.com replay the morning after (time zones man), so I only just finished it. Well that sucked. I thought we'd end up losing a close one, but I didn't see it being on such a heartbreaking/fluky play as the Franklin fumble (not that Franklin fumbling was the fluke, but more how it was picked up, fumbled again and run 70 yrds back). I'm not particularly worried long term from this game though except for three things (I'll get to them in a second). But the Bengals are a good team, and solid in all aspects of the game. Their defense is very impressive. I think before the season, if you had looked at the schedule objectively, this would have seemed like the 2nd or 3rd hardest game we had for the whole year, so unless you believed the team was going to go 15-1 again, a close loss was probably the most likely outcome. The things that concern me moving forward are: 1. The injuries. We've been the most injured team in football I think for the last three years and early into this season we're not faring any better. Starks, Lacy, Kuhn, Finley, Matthews, Hayward, Burnett and probably some others I'm forgetting have already missed big chunks of games or been declared out of them outright. The concussions can't be helped, but it does sure seem like we're losing a lot of guys to hamstrings and then that their recovery time is taking extra long. It's starting to feel like our trainers and medical staff might systematically be doing something wrong and I hope it can be righted. Luckily none of these injuries appears to be a long term/serious one and we do have the bye next, so maybe the timing of that worked out really well in the end. 2. Rodgers was right, McCarthy needed to go for it at the on 4 and at 2 in the middle of the 2nd. It's objectively the better decision (compared to a FG) and even if we got stuffed at the point of the game our defense was on fire and would have had them backed up deep. But my real concern is McCarthy's inconsistency. He was aggressive against the Skins going for it on 4 and whatever on the first TD to Cobb and aggressive on the 4th and 1 to Franklin at the end of the game. Even though that play turned out horribly horribly wrong, I think it's the right call. I don't understand his dramatic oscillation from being super aggressive to being super passive. 3. The best (worst?) for last. Jeremy Ross can't be our kick returner anymore. He's not particularly explosive in the actual returns and, just, wow, my god, does he make horrendous decisions at times. The fumble speaks for itself, but he damned near had another huge blunder on the kickoff that went out of bounds at the 2. It sure looked like to me that he was just about ready to stop the ball, pick it up and go right before it went out of bounds (I actually thought that's what he did originally before I saw it on the replay). I'm new to this site, so I wasn't here in the preseason, but my only issue with the cuts for the final roster was I had hoped Tyrone Walker or Charles Johnson made the team over Ross. Sure they're probably not great return men either, but neither is Jeremy Ross. At least they might have enough sense to not cause calamitous fumbles or destroy our field position through bad decision making. Best news is that's really the hard stretch of our schedule and it's over. 1-2 is not ideal, but not earth-ending. We'll be down a few games to the Bears but we'll have the chances to beat them. My preseason prediction was 11-5 with us winning the division and it factored in that we'd lose to both the Bengals and Niners. So I'm sticking to it. Let's go Pack. [/QUOTE]
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