NFL Week 4 -- Damn, even Rock Reed scored against the Lions

[TheSportsPredictor]

Bengals survivor pick — WHEW

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

Bengals survivor pick — WHEW

I share your flop sweat, my brother

 

[DanOregon]

The Super Bowl halftime show actually seems like it will be pretty cool. Hoping for a a hologram Tupac to open the show with Dre - then Snoop, Blige and Eminem and Kendrick to close. (unless Kendrick subs for Tupac in the song below.

 

[Batman]

It's looking better now. Apparently, that goal-line stand woke the Bengals up.

Bah. Had Bengals -7.5 for what I thought was a mortal lock. Even thought maybe I had a chance once they started tearing apart the Jags in the second half, but that fourth quarter absolutely evaporated. I think the Bengals got the ball back with six or seven minutes left and all of a sudden it was under three. Nice game-winning drive, but I was hoping they'd give the Jags the ball back with about a minute left so Lawrence could maybe throw a pick-six in desperation time. Oh well.

It was fun to see Burrow light it up in the second half. That second touchdown to Uzomah showed what might be the best part of his game, which is how well and how smoothly he moves around in the pocket. No panic, never takes his eyes off the receivers, slides around well and then manages to turn a checkdown into a big play because he has just enough running ability to be dangerous and sucks in the defense. That touchdown reminded me of the play he made for the game-winning touchdown against Texas in 2019 that launched his Heisman campaign and LSU's dream season.

 

[Batman]

Does the Bengals kicker wear shoulder pads? Did he inherit Ed McCaffrey's old set?

 

[DanOregon]

I see some of these "surprise" teams and check their schedule and notice say the Broncos have played the Giants, Jets and Jags...not exactly the six games they still have vs. the AFC West. I do think the NFL does a good job stacking the front of the schedule with strong team vs. strong team matchups and weakling v. weakling matchups. It keeps everyone interested - except for the poor suckers of the weaklings that lose.

 

[outofplace]

Bah. Had Bengals -7.5 for what I thought was a mortal lock. Even thought maybe I had a chance once they started tearing apart the Jags in the second half, but that fourth quarter absolutely evaporated. I think the Bengals got the ball back with six or seven minutes left and all of a sudden it was under three. Nice game-winning drive, but I was hoping they'd give the Jags the ball back with about a minute left so Lawrence could maybe throw a pick-six in desperation time. Oh well.

It was fun to see Burrow light it up in the second half. That second touchdown to Uzomah showed what might be the best part of his game, which is how well and how smoothly he moves around in the pocket. No panic, never takes his eyes off the receivers, slides around well and then manages to turn a checkdown into a big play because he has just enough running ability to be dangerous and sucks in the defense. That touchdown reminded me of the play he made for the game-winning touchdown against Texas in 2019 that launched his Heisman campaign and LSU's dream season.

I wasn't even thinking of the betting line. I just had them in my survivor pool. The Bengals are decent, but they still need to protect Burrow. That weakness has been masked the last two games. The Steelers were missing most of their pass rush Sunday and the Jaguars just don't generate much pressure.

 

[poindexter]

Survivor pools are yet another reason the NFL and games like last night are so popular.
My wife would never ever have been interested in a Jags - Bengals game on a thursday night. But she won our survivor pool a couple years ago.

As soon as she found out five people picked the Bengals last night, she was in all night.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Jags tie Lions for second-longest losing streak of the modern era at 19
Tampa Bay's 0-26 start is the record

 

[Regan MacNeil]

 

[heyabbott]

Jags tie Lions for second-longest losing streak of the modern era at 19
Tampa Bay's 0-26 start is the record

I feel sorry for a couple of friends who live in Jacksonville but Urban can eat a big bag of Doberman Dicks

 

[Octave]

The more Urb talks the more he doesn't sound like an NFL head coach. So keep talking, I say.
A bad case of Sabanism- inability to win without a stacked deck.
Him looking like he was about to cry the other night wasn't about 'the hearts of these men.'
It was him being scared to death that he is being exposed in real time as the fukin fraud that he is.