Originally Posted by Rainbarrel:
Brown going down 30 minutes before going against an opponent he knows well, mattered
Both Tackles went down in that game. That's huge, and we still should have won that game, if it weren't for Spags going full retard with our D in the 2nd half.
Cincy isn't going to get that lucky in this game. [Reply]
I’ll have to find the tweet but I saw Ja’Marr Chase say they are fully expecting us to play cover 2 and have been practicing against it all week [Reply]
Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar:
I don’t care about the flukey outcome a month ago. They don’t match up well with the Chiefs and playing in Arrowhead is a completely different animal.
KC went into halftime up by 11 and scored three points in the second half. I do not believe they score that little this time. [Reply]
The biggest factor in this game might be the Arrowhead crowd.
Pretty much every defensive line in the league is a mismatch for the Bengals offensive line. The interior especially is just flat out bad.
The Chiefs weren't able to take advantage of that much in the first game but it's going to be that much harder for line calls when the crowd is deafeningly loud. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RunKC:
I’ll have to find the tweet but I saw Ja’Marr Chase say they are fully expecting us to play cover 2 and have been practicing against it all week
That's fine. They need to take Chase and Higgens out of the game and force someone like Boyd to beat us. Very similar to the Bills game. Davis went off, but every other weapon they had was a non factor (not counting Allen). [Reply]
I get the vibe that the Cincy fans think the Bangles are just going to sleepwalk into Arrowhead and boatrace the defense for 40+ points and then onto the Superbowl. Confidant fanbase.
Burrow has thrown more interceptions than Mahomes. He's a statue pocket passer with a porous offensive line. There's no way he gets out of this game without throwing at least one pick. I'm predicting two. If they keep the game close it's only because the Chiefs are their own worst enemies. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ChiTown:
Both Tackles went down in that game. That's huge, and we still should have won that game, if it weren't for Spags going full reerun with our D in the 2nd half.
Cincy isn't going to get that lucky in this game.
Not only this, but another overlooked aspect of that game: Jerrick McKinnon....zero touches [Reply]
I think we should take a page from Belichick and put Fenton on Chase all game with safety help from Thornhill at all times while our best corner Ward is taking away Higgins.
No excuse for Chase to have a game like last time if he’s double covered [Reply]
Joe Burrow is the sixth QB to make it to the conference championship after taking 50+ sacks during the regular season. Burrow was sacked 62 times which ranks him FIRST among those 6 QB's.
NONE of the other 5 advanced to the Super Bowl and FOUR of them failed to score a single offensive TD in the championship game. [Reply]
Originally Posted by staylor26:
I know shitting on CEH is the cool thing to do, but he wasn’t playing either, and they’re easily our 2 best RBs.
Holy shit I totally forgot that. The Bengals rush defense is not good either
Josh Jacobs-13 carries, 83 yards, 6.4 YPC
D’Onta Foreman-4 carries, 66 yards, 16.5 YPC
They did okay vs Henry who had 3.1 YPC but came off major surgery with a fucking steel plate in his foot
Darrell Williams and Derrick Gore combined for 17 carries, 125 yards and over 7 YPC last time we played.
And they also lost Ogunjobi which is huge. Man…we’re dropping 50 on these guys easy if we need to [Reply]