The question becomes whether they can sneak their way into a first-round bye and bide more time for a possible return from Andy Dalton. As I mentioned in this week’s National Football League recap, Dalton had a massive brain fart in a first half drive Sunday that began with a mindbogglingly idiotic shovel pass and ended with a fractured thumb on a misguided attempt at a tackle.
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-SPECIAL TEAMS: B. This unit didn’t factor much in this game, although the Bengals still miss Adam Jones’ presence on punt returns.
Dalton’s hand reportedly does not need surgery to heal and if the team gets through this game against the Niners, then he will be evaluated on a weekly basis. Coach Marvin Lewis says that Wenning knows the offense already, and any free agent would have needed to get practice time to learn it. He won’t play this week.
The NFL gets blamed for the pregame skirmish between the Steelers and Bengals; AJ McCarron thinks he can be the next Tom Brady; Browns tight end Gary Barnidge sees nothing wrong with Johnny Manziel venting on the sideline; Eagles coach Chip Kelly rips the media; the Bills were upset again with officiating during Sunday’s loss to the Eagles; Seahawks coach Pete Carroll scaled the lockers after his team’s dominant win at Baltimore; and Packers running back Eddie Lacy rebounded with a big game after getting benched. He’s won two Super Bowl titles and been to another, but he (rightfully) hasn’t received full credit for it because each of those teams were led by dominant defenses (first or third in points allowed each trip).
Through 12 games this year though Dalton had only two such games and decreased his turnover worthy play rate from his career average of 3.8 percent to only 3.0 percent this season.
“Our football team has a lot of confidence in AJ McCarron”, said Lewis. “I’m anxious about what we have right now; the team we have and my job at task”. I’m anxious about what we have right now. The Bengals can still clinch the AFC North Division crown with a win and a Steelers loss at home to Denver this week. New England (11-2) is in line for home-field advantage throughout the playoffs with the Bengals and Broncos tied for the second spot. He is being replaced by a quarterback who has not run many plays with the starting offense and had thrown only four passes in a mop-up role before Sunday. He went 22 of 32 for 280 yards with a 66-yard touchdown to A.J. Green and an interception that William Gay returned 23 yards for a touchdown. He’ll practice with the starters this week, and the game plan will be tailored to what he likes to do. “That’s what we pay him for”, offensive coordinator Hue Jackson said via the Cincinnati Enquirer.
“We went through a good week last week, gave him the weekend off, so we’ll see where we’re at”, Kubiak said. It’s be different if we had a guy I thought couldn’t play.
“Hopefully, we’ll be able to get Andy back at some point, and we’ll move forward”.
If he can’t go against Indianapolis, the Texans will look to T.J. Yates, who started the last time Hoyer was out and led them to a win. We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can. A few things we won’t tolerate: personal attacks, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity (including expletives and letters followed by dashes), commercial promotion, impersonations, incoherence, proselytizing and SHOUTING.
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