The Bengals (9-4) travel to Tampa Bay to take on the Buccaneers (6-7). The Bucs are coming off a 35-7 to loss at San Fransisco and the Bengals who are coming off a 23-10 win at home vs. the Browns. Also the Bengals have won their last 5 games. The game is scheduled to kick at 4:25 on CBS for a national audience. 

The Bengals opened a 3.5 favorite. 

37 minutes ago, theguru said:

The Bengals opened a 3.5 favorite. 

Seems a little low. Although I guess the injury situation makes this game more unpredictable.

From Cincinnati.com:

Wide receivers Tee Higgins (hamstring) and Tyler Boyd (dislocated finger) are viewed as “day-to-day” with their respective injuries. 

Trey Hendrickson has a wrist injury, he is not going to IR, and Coach Taylor said, “We'll see where he's at through the week, but I'm not ready to rule him out.”

Joseph Ossai has a shoulder injury and his status for Sunday is unknown.

Hayden Hurst is still nursing a calf injury and is not expected to play this week but he will be back in the coming weeks.

16 hours ago, theguru said:

From Cincinnati.com:

Wide receivers Tee Higgins (hamstring) and Tyler Boyd (dislocated finger) are viewed as “day-to-day” with their respective injuries. 

Trey Hendrickson has a wrist injury, he is not going to IR, and Coach Taylor said, “We'll see where he's at through the week, but I'm not ready to rule him out.”

Joseph Ossai has a shoulder injury and his status for Sunday is unknown.

Hayden Hurst is still nursing a calf injury and is not expected to play this week but he will be back in the coming weeks.

Ossai and Hendrickson would be a major blow. We have to have at least one of them.

Again I hope I’m wrong but this feels like a Bengals loss.

A. Injuries

2. I don’t think they win out feels like this is the one they lose. 
D. Bucs got blown out last week.

I don't think the Bucs are capable of beating the Bengals. Bengals are too much better than them.

Can't see Brady playing as bad as he did Sunday, but at this point, the Bengals are just better than Tampa.

Tom Brady is one of if not the greatest of all-time, but this year he has not been very good at all. The Bucs are only averaging just over 14 points a game. They have only scored over 20 points 5 times in 13 games and have lost two of those games. The Bengals should win this game the Bucs defense has been below average vs the run so even though that Higgins and Boyd could be out again the Bengals should be able to run the ball and set up some good play action for the passing game. I'm going with 27-13 Bengals.  

Hendrickson, Hilton, and Hurst are all ruled out. Higgins and Boyd are questionable.

This game will certainly test our depth.

The Browns just beat the Ravens, the Bengals are in 1st place. 

Justin Tucker missed 2 field goals. Last time he missed 2 in a game was 4 years ago.

 

Just now, Voice of Reason said:

Justin Tucker missed 2 field goals. Last time he missed 2 in a game was 4 years ago.

 

I think the Browns kicker missed two also, tough conditions but not an excuse for all those misses. 

Just take care of business. Next week worries me more than this week.

Coach McPeek down in Tampa to see the game tomorrow and getting to visit his college teammate at Marshall Buccaneer offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich.