While Green said Moss was one of his idols and he’s proud “to be in the same breath with him”, neither he nor Dalton were too interested in talking about their accomplishments.
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“Now it depends on how those games go”, he said. “That’s a better question for him, but we hope so”.
“It’s not about the stats”, Dalton added. “We are going to coach our players hard, and we will see what happens”.
So, heading into a crucial matchup this week against the AFC North rival Pittsburgh Steelers, it might have been easy for the Cincinnati Bengals to ease off the gas pedal against the struggling St. Louis Rams and lowly Cleveland Browns.
It also equals the largest spread by either team in the 85-game history of the series.
Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis plastered the locker room monitors last week with pictures of what would be a hit with Cincinnati school kids everywhere if they actually existed: lunch boxes adorned with a Bengals B.
The Bengals have outscored Cleveland 98-13 in their last three meetings. Green has been relatively quiet this season as he’s putting up really good numbers just nothing spectacular so, it was nice to see Green step up when the opportunity was given. In what has been a miserable year for the Browns, the quarterback battle has certainly not helped things and now many wonder if Manziel will get another chance to redeem himself and prove he can be a factor for the future.
This season, the Bengals are winning everything. For 11 contests, Uzomah had been one of the seven players designated by the Bengals as inactive on game day.
Here’s where Dallas comes in.
But he didn’t even get to play a game in that role.
“We have to be brutally honest with ourselves and brutally honest not just looking in the mirror but to other parts of the building as well”, Pettine said. Last year’s dominant numbers couldn’t have been a fluke, and it looks like Hill’s bounce-back will come quicker than Doug Martin’s bounce-back to rookie form, which took a few years.
The interception led to a Bengals field goal. “For me to start right away and for him to be our No. 1 guy, it’s what you set out to do”. There’s not a chance that any minute of yesterday’s debacle was spent with Pettine thinking “maybe I should put Johnny in”.
Wide receiver Travis Benjamin is day to day with a shoulder injury, Pettine said. The Browns are 2-15 in their past 17 games under Pettine, who earlier this week expressed disappointment at his team’s status and said he may soon have discussions about what’s next with owner Jimmy Haslam. The stadium was only about half-full at the start, and when the Bengals went up 27-3 on Jeremy Hill’s 1-yard run, fans who stayed through halftime headed to the exits in droves.
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The trend would continue this season, with the Browns signing Josh McCown to a big deal to replace Hoyer.
