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The Diggs catch on the sideline where he lowered his shoulder with his head to the side and delivered a hit to the DB is how you play clean and hard.

Only Higgins knows what his intent was and yes his shoulder hit Hamlin in the chest, but it also looked like he lowered his helmet under Hamlin’s chin/face-mask. Bart Scott taking a lot of heat for suggesting it was dirty by Higgins especially since Hamlin is still in critical condition and Higgins clearly effected by it, but that’s how I saw it too. And I’d also say Cincy crossed the line of physical play to dirty/intent to injure the first 10 minutes of that game.

Dudes are too big and fast now. Way too much force and violence once they reach puberty

The only thing I took from the first 10 minutes of the game is that the Bengals had a plan to go right at Tre White, and were so confident in that plan succeeding that they elected to receive the opening kickoff.

This was definitely McDermott’s finest moment. I criticize the guy sometimes, but he’s a good human being. No way he was putting his team back on the field.

Definitely a play design thing. Watch other NFL games and you’ll see a lot of quick throws at or behind the line of scrimmage. I guess when you have a QB that can so easily gain those same types of yards with his legs, Bills don’t see the need to draw up those types of plays. Davis and McKenzie could definitely execute those plays though. I think at the beginning of his career, Daboll let Josh be Josh. Now I think Josh is a mature enough QB to dink and dunk you down the field if that’s what defense is giving us.

Dolphins will keep Tua for at least another year. Not so sure about Jones. He’s looked really bad without a top notch running game, which they had last year but not this year. I could see them moving on this off season.

He’s Jared Goff. Neither are good athletes and when they’re forced to move at all off their drop-back they’re terrible.

They are very creative with Etienne and Ingram. And Lawrence is an excellent athlete. Lawrence looks legit. After Chiefs, Bills and Bengals, that’s probably most dangerous AFC team

What a moron. Even if the guy deserved it, you don’t jump him in a nightclub with cameras everywhere.

His ability to play the ball was so sorely needed. Seemed like he had more pass breakups saturday night than the whole secondary the previous month.

As long as we take a player on the Offensive side in 1st round, I’ll be happy. And it’s past due to spend money on the Offensive Line in free agency.

No it wasn’t. He was at most a half yard off the line and kept checking with the side judge. Even NBC’s former ref said it was too technical to call in the 1st quarter much less in the last minute of the game.

I don’t think it’s corruption, it just poor inconsistent officiating. You got one over-officious clown ref on one side calling a bogus procedure penalty and a coward ref on the other side afraid to call a clear DPI on the next play. That’s always been my gripe with NFL officiating. There’s too many different guys that can throw a flag on any play and it leads to inconsistencies and teams being at the mercy of one of 8 guys that will or won’t throw a flag on any given play.

I’ll give NBC a lot of credit. Their former ref rules expert even said the procedure penalty was BS in addition to the obvious PI.

Pretty horrible sequence for the refs. A BS technicality call to erase a TD, then obvious missed PI.

Agreed. Kudos to Collinsworth for telling it like it is. Most of the NFL TV guys are shameless shills.

The Sharknado angle… make a movie so bad that it’s fun to watch.

AFC South not much different

sorry, I know i should be rooting for Brady, but this is too much fun.

I want the Bengals to lose but it is rich watching brady’s corpse try to avoid a pass rush. Is there any doubt the Colts trade a 1st for Brady in the offseason?

I don’t root for anybody to lose their job, but there’s no way the coaches can trust putting him on the field after that. Will make you question the coach’s commitment to winning a championship if he ever sees the field again.

White and Johnson were getting very close to picks last night. Problem last night was Hamlin was a step late on a couple balls that were in the air a long time.

Diggs pulled himself out of the last drive after he got tackled. He went back in 3 plays later but I was having memories of Kevin Carter of the Rams pulling himself out of the Super Bowl against the Titans on the last drive. And Vermeil looking at him like ‘Seriously’. Diggs defintely seems like a sensitive dude. Gets mad very easily.

The problem with that play was the ref had no idea if McKenzie caught the ball and just ruled it incomplete because his view was blocked. But that call set in motion the incomplete ruling standing after review. In the NBA, refs go straight to the monitor if they can’t make a call on the court. Don’t make call on the field if you have no idea.