John Waylon

The really unfortunate thing about today was the opportunity we fumbled away. We get to brush it off with a “well at least everyone else lost”, but had we handled business it would have been a massive boost to our playoff push and positioning. Of course the dingy side of that silver lining is now we’ve seen what it looks like when we’re playing another team in, or trying to make the field instead of the bottom half of the order… If you thought today was ugly it was honestly just a preview of January football 🤷🏻‍♂️

When Minshew had happy feet during the first and second play today I had a sinking suspicion it was gonna be one of “those” days. And sure enough…

Even saying we played well in the first half is a stretch. Once Browning settled in after those first 2 or 3 drives they were not struggling to move the ball and the chains. Did their offense roll us? No. Did we impose our will on them? Also no. We merely survived the first half. Would they have had just 14 first half points with Burrow under center? We got gifted a matchup against the backup and we still just treaded water. This defense has been predicated on sacks and pressure. None of which we were able to achieve. At any time. And they let the Bengals have one of their best days of the year on the ground on top of that.

It just goes to show what that ended up being worth that I can’t even remember it just 2 hours later… And even that play was a gift. If the TE had just let that ball go (as he should have, he was never going to catch that by reaching out in vain,) it would have sailed harmlessly to the ground.

Played well in defense?! What? 0 sacks, 0 turnovers, 34 PA, they had their 4th best game of the year on the ground well ahead of their weekly average, and they completed 19/25 passes. Hat about that is good?

That’s sucked. Pretty much all of it.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooof. I’ve seen enough.

Woof. I think it may be time to wave the white flag of surrender and turn this one off.

I certainly hope it was closer to holding there than it was on the field. I wanna go home.

Where’s the hold?

Unless he’s a ventriloquist, and that’s a hell of a time to pick to practice that talent, his face appeared to be set in stone.

Is he * mute? He called for the FC, he can speak up and tell the player ranging over “I got it”. It’s not the first time it’s happened this year. Or the second.

He’s gotta be more aware. When he’s got a guy ranging towards him he needs to speak up and tell them to gtho.

McKenzie just isn’t good.

For real?

Well that was odd.

I think you’d be pretty hard-pressed to find anyone who wouldn’t take the penalty. That’s why it was a bad call.

It’s exactly what happened lol. There was a 15 yard penalty and he declined.

And in the end it was unwise.

The only thing Bradley could do to make this any easier would be give a ballcarrier a piggyback ride to the end zone.

Yeah I didn’t understand that one. Even being 3rd and 10

Terrible spot.

Franklin was flat out mean to Brown there.

Baker getting baked. Again. For like the 936th time.