Well, week one went off the rails pretty quick. Still, the end result wasn’t too far from what i predicted:
- Sloppy slow start
-The defense held
-In the end Joe Burrow figured out how to do enough to win.. Only, Clark Harris’s old man muscles gave out and the Bengals kicking game couldn’t convert
(funny question from my wife who doesn’t watch or care anything about football after i mentioned the Bengals lost the game partly because they screwed up two kicks after the long snapper got hurt: “Why didn’t the guy who snaps the ball on every other play just do it?” .. .. good question. Maybe the center would be a better emergency long snapper than the third string tight end? Punt coverage, okay it makes sense that you don’t want a lineman out there for that but the snaps for kicks seem similar enough to shotgun snaps. Just sayin.)
No time to weep too much. Week 2 is right around the corner. The Bengals head to Dallas this weekend for a showdown with.. Cooper Rush? .. Strangely, the Dak Prescott injury comes as both a relief and a disappointment. Surely it helps the Bengals chances of coming home with a road win, but what would we learn from that? It kind of robs us of the chance to get this week 1 bad taste out of our mouths for at least another week or two. Plus, there’s almost more to lose than to win going into it. I’m sure the team doesn’t quite see it that way. A win is a win and they just have to go in there and take care of business, but it does seem to put more pressure on them to dominate. They’re heading into a hostile environment against an elite pass rusher and a ball hawking DB with a knack for big plays.. sounds awfully familiar minus the road game aspect of it. Hopefully an early miscue doesn’t waken ghosts from the Steelers game.
I still have faith though. Joe Ain’t afraid of no ghosts!
If they are what we think they are, week 1 is in the past. They got hit in the mouth. Now they spit blood and come back on a mission. Bengals 27 Cowboys
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