Following an extra point, the Bengals led 21-3 with 14:04 left in the quarter. Jones is the team’s best cornerback, a group badly depleted without stalwart Leon Hall (unsigned), first-rounder William Jackson III (torin pectoral) in addition to all three starters Sunday night. Drive: 12 plays, 66 yards, 5:24.
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“I feel like we do a good job of having good schemes and seeing good looks”, Dalton said. Two touchdowns in the first half of a preseason game is pretty good, and we got them both ways.
Bortles was 10-of-16 passing for only 52 yards while playing the entire first half.
Jeremy Hill’s 1-yard touchdown run: Usually such short touchdown runs aren’t anything to write home about, especially with three other failed attempts prior, but we have to applaud the effort here. Bernard had 52 yards – 27 on three carries and 25 on two catches. Hill rushed eight times for 21 yards.
Just two years later and he’s among the first of the Jacksonville Jaguars’ cuts before the 2016 season. Then Cedric Peerman suffered a left forearm fracture and went off in an air cast. Peerman, a special teams captain, has led the team in special teams tackles for two straight seasons.
T.J. Yeldon fumbled on the opening possession.
Perhaps Gus Bradley had seen enough because both the first team offense and defense didn’t play in the second half. He returned the ball 62 yards for a touchdown. It was his second TD catch of the preseason. Hill capped it with a 1-yard run. McCarron and the roster fill-ins at QB had to run for their lives as the makeshift line of backups couldn’t slow down the Jaguars’ rush. Key Play: McCarron 53 pass to Core on 3rd-and-9.Cincinnati 21, Jacksonville 3.
Running back Giovani Bernard, whose game locker was next to Peerman, said his teammate was doing as well as could be expected after such an injury.
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As hard as it is to replace a starter on the offensive or defensive sides of the ball, it is also no easy task to simply plug somebody else into a special teams role and expect success.
