Falcons 39
The Bengals are playing with my emotions worse than my ex-girlfriend. This game showed how bad they can be and how good they can be. It also showed the lack of talent on this team and it also showed the immaturity of some of the players.
Again we can point to bad play calling to our offensive troubles especially in the first half. Having great success running the ball on the first scoring drive, but on the very next offensive drive Bengals comeback started to throw which led them to go 3 and out.
It's always hard to comeback from being down 21 points at half time, it was just too little, too late.
It was nice to finally see Big fluffy Andre Smith get a start, but having two false start and giving up sack in the crucial moment of the game is not a good thing
Like previous game we cannot blame Carson for anything, he played his best game this year. 412 yards, 3 TD's with no turnovers. But the little things like 5 yard penalties here and there and 2 missed PAT's all lead to the Bengals falling short. And of course the big one was Ced. Benson's fumble in the 4th quarter.
But I think the biggest factor in todays lost was the defense inability to contain Roddy White, there is no reason for the Bengals to let him get 11 catches for 201 yards and 2 TD's. He is the best player on the Falcons, so I think it would have been wise to double team him or roll the coverage more to his side.
The final play of the game, the Falcons line up three defensive linemen, and the Bengals got five offensive linemen, so how is that the Falcon's John Abraham beats Andrew Whitworh for a sack? That is just terrible play by the O-line. We might have super stars on this team, but as a whole this team lacks talent and intangibles that make a team good.
If I looked at the stat without watching the game I would of have figured the Bengals won this game.
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