Maine-iac

Where does Cook start?

To some degree I completely agree. That said whoever wins this game will probably have hung at least 27 points on the other team. In the playoffs you bring your best defense and hope it holds up (ours was very beat up) and if it can't you just have to outscore them. There are a lot of very good playoff defenses that gave up a lot of points.

At least the officiating is consistent. It's been horrible all year.

What 8 rookies are starting? I got a DE and a CB who are the other 6?

McNabb threw the ugliest balls. He knew where to go with the ball but I don't think he ever threw spirals.

If you never run the ball you make it much easier for Spagnola to stop you. Bengals are playing into the Chiefs hands. Mixon is a decent banger they should trust that a little bit while the game is still close.

I'm not sure how old your are but if you lived through the seasons from 99 on the answer to this is sooooooo easy. Not even close. I don't like losing in the playoffs but this is easy. Bengals need to run the damn ball. Spags will come get your QB if you throw all day long.

In the first one? We played less than a quarter you can't say how that would have ended. In the one that actually got played Hyde, Jones, Miller, and Hamlin were all out and Phillips was playing on one arm. By the 3rd quarter Poyer and White were also out and this whole thing stemmed from you saying the guys we played the Bengals with were more talented than the players the Chiefs are playing today. Outside of Milllano I'm not sure who you've got.

I'm not making the list again. We had way more injuries on defense than they had on offense and they were smart, they ran the ball. Once they established the run they started to pass but they had more carries in a half than we have in most of our entire games.

Tell me if you've heard this before .................. run the ball. If Cinci doesn't get a running game going Spags will win this game.

We were getting run over because Jones was out and Phillips was playing with one arm and we were trying to do thing to cover with half our team injured . Again with the injuries we by far had less talent playing on defense than any of the teams playing this weekend or last. With our opening day roster and the expectation that White would be back playing 100 percent I'd believe we have a talented roster on defense but not the group that was taking snaps last Sunday.

.................. but we don't play man coverage why the hell would we do that?

So Marlowe and whoever was backing up Poyer (Johnson) were better safeties? LB I'll give you but Bolton is pretty damn good. Outside of that we were playing almost all injury replacements so I'm not sure where we were more talented than the players KC has out there.

This is sad, kinda funny, and painfully true.

Which position are we better at?

Yes but I'm not sure you want to press with Dane Jackson in coverage and Marlowe behind him. Getting gashed up the middle with Jones out and Phillips playing with one arm and no of your edge rushers getting home fast enough. Just too many injuries. Looking back you could see it coming when we gave up that many points to NE and Miami with sub par QB's playing us.

We didn't just let them play pitch and catch .............. we let them run all over the place also.

This is roughly the score in our game at halftime. White and Poyer went down in the 3rd to go along with all the other injuries. The difference will be if the Bengals get something going on offense. I am going to get crazy and say something I've never said before .................... run the damn ball. JK ........... I said that all season long.

JJ Watt agrees.

Remember when we signed Mario Williams and then had Wahnstedt (spelling) as the DC. They were so bad. Bring in Pettine and then Schwatz and Mario was a beast.

It is all predicated on tight coverage and a front four that can rush. If your coverage can't cover (injuries) and your front four can't rush (talent and injuries) then no matter how you shuffle the deck chairs on the Titanic the movie ends the same.

Sexy in photos when you're drunk?

This is not the defense we played with Lorenzo Alexander. We changed a lot after Kyle and Alexander retired.

Spags stopped Brady, Moss and Welker. He's not afraid of Burrow.

Can I agree and disagree at the same time? We were to injured on defense to play what we set out to play this season. I have to think if we had a healthy Miller, Phillips, Jones, Hyde, Poyer and White we would have been much more competitive. On offense Dorsey is still learning but I agree we have to learn to take some easy high percentage stuff and run the ball and not just try to block it up and throw deep all the time.