Playoffs, 2021-22 Season

[Maniaque 6]

Someone made a very good job at the half on CIN's defense.
It's the only difference between Bengals and Chargers.

[Classic]

Chargers have more talented OL.
Bengals have more talented DL, secondary, WRs.

Pro bowl is not a measure of talent.

So we have no talent then? Bengals pro bowlers are aparently talented but ours suck eh?

[equivocation]

So we have no talent then? Bengals pro bowlers are aparently talented but ours suck eh?

Gee, good recap. That's exactly what I said.

[Guest]

The thing that sticks out to me for last weekends playoffs...the wide open receivers...especially the Ram's Cooper Kupp. Heck..Bill Belichick would have just double covered him all day. And Higbee was hurt....Bill likes to take away your best player. I did not see that done for some reason.

[Xenos]

The thing that sticks out to me for last weekends playoffs...the wide open receivers...especially the Ram's Cooper Kupp. Heck..Bill Belichick would have just double covered him all day. And Higbee was hurt....Bill likes to take away your best player. I did not see that done for some reason.

Easier said than done.

[Xenos]

Someone made a very good job at the half on CIN's defense.
It's the only difference between Bengals and Chargers.

Apparently prevent defense can win a game!

[Xenos]

So we have no talent then? Bengals pro bowlers are aparently talented but ours suck eh?

Our team wasn’t well rounded like the Bengals. If our strength, which was primarily our offense, had a bad day, it usually meant that the other pieces couldn’t pick up the slack. One of the few exceptions was ironically the Bengals game where our offense started hot, then stalled but our defense managed to make enough plays to keep us in the game. Hopefully by filling out more of the roster, we can have more games like that one next season.

[Maniaque 6]

In that game against CIN, the Chargers really look like a PO team.

[Bolt-O]

If the Bills had dropped 8 into coverage in that last 13 seconds, their result might have been different. The Bengals, to their credit, didn't repeat the same mistake vs. the Chiefs, their SPY did a great job. Reid will be working on that all off-season.

[powderblueboy]

Our team wasn’t well rounded like the Bengals. If our strength, which was primarily our offense, had a bad day, it usually meant that the other pieces couldn’t pick up the slack. One of the few exceptions was ironically the Bengals game where our offense started hot, then stalled but our defense managed to make enough plays to keep us in the game. Hopefully by filling out more of the roster, we can have more games like that one next season.

Only a few solid players in difference: Cincinnati's defensive backfield was praised for all its #1 picks on hand; but a few of those were busts from former teams.

What kills me is the Rams depth at DT: Gaines (4rth) and Ashawn (I know, he's listed as an end) and Sebastion Joseph-Day (6th), with Bobby Brown (4rth) waiting in the wings.

Rams spend middle round picks on Oline & Dline, while Telesco spends it on linebackers.

[powderblueboy]

Apparently prevent defense can win a game!

They mixed things up, and they had a spy who took away crossing routes, and then rushed Mahomes if his sector was clear.


I remember how a wide receiver was killing Sammy Davis Jr. by running shallow crossing patterns. Schottenheimer's coaching staff made the adjustment by having a
linebacker (Godfrey?) obliterate the wide receiver on one foray across the middle

[Velo]

Our team wasn’t well rounded like the Bengals. If our strength, which was primarily our offense, had a bad day, it usually meant that the other pieces couldn’t pick up the slack. One of the few exceptions was ironically the Bengals game where our offense started hot, then stalled but our defense managed to make enough plays to keep us in the game. Hopefully by filling out more of the roster, we can have more games like that one next season.

Disagree. The Chargers spanked the Bengals on their field because the Chargers are the more talented team. It was a game in which everything clicked for the Chargers, and there weren't any situations where Staley had to make a decision that cost the Chargers the game. The difference between the Bengals and the Chargers over the course of the season though, and why the Bengals are in the Super Bowl while the Chargers were home for the playoffs, is that the Bengals have solid coaching and the Chargers have Josh McDaniels 2.0.