The Las Vegas Raiders (2-6) travel cross country to take on the Cincinnati Bengals (3-5) in a battle of two AFC teams. Both teams coming off losses the Raiders lose a tough one at home 27-20 to the Super Bowl Champs the Chiefs. The Bengals got thumped by the Eagles at home 37-17 they are 0-4 at home this season. Also as bad as the Bengals have been at times this season it is hard to believe that as of right now, they are in 9th place in the AFC playoff picture. They are out of games they can lose and still have any shot at the playoffs. The only thing going for them is that there are only 7 out 16 teams in the AFC that have a winning record. The game is scheduled to kick at 1:00pm on Fox. Go Bengals! WHO DEY!!

Marvin Lewis returns to Cincinnati this week as he is on the Raiders coaching staff. 

Here is what I would like to see:

Murphy and Ossai getting more reps in passing situations.

Jenkins getting more reps than Rankins

Battle at safety instead of Bell

Burton at WR more than Iosivas. 

Moss as the 3rd down RB and Brown getting the reps on downs 1 and 2.

More blitzing by Lou.

 

What changes do you want to see this week?

11 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

Here is what I would like to see:

Murphy and Ossai getting more reps in passing situations.

Jenkins getting more reps than Rankins

Battle at safety instead of Bell

Burton at WR more than Iosivas. 

Moss as the 3rd down RB and Brown getting the reps on downs 1 and 2.

More blitzing by Lou.

 

What changes do you want to see this week?

All the above sounds good to me!

In regards to off the field, I would love to see them go ahead and trade Tee now and get something for him. 

It's the Bengals way that this is the game they rise up and put together a great performance and bring the fans back in believing they can make a run.

 

Bengals by double digits.

I’m not convinced that the Bengals have to win out to reach the postseason. 11-6 or maybe 10-7 should do it.  

1 hour ago, mcpapa said:

I’m not convinced that the Bengals have to win out to reach the postseason. 11-6 or maybe 10-7 should do it.  

I posted this in the game final thread but Joe Cool agrees with you.

I would like them to win those 7 against AFC foes and have one of the losses against Dallas (the remaining NFC opponent).  You have to consider tiebreakers.  Best scenario would be to win all 4 of the remaining AFC North games (but you have to assume that the AFC North title is probably lost already).

17 hours ago, mcpapa said:

I’m not convinced that the Bengals have to win out to reach the postseason. 11-6 or maybe 10-7 should do it.  

Say 10-7 gets you in... That means they will have to split with Pittsburgh, win in LA, and probably win in Dallas. No room for error if they drop games like this or any other game they should win (Titans, Broncos, and Browns).

I look for the Raiders have a good game and win 35 to 27. Bowers and Crosby should do pretty good.

The Bengals are a 7 point favorite in this game, seems a little much to me.

1 hour ago, theguru said:

The Bengals are a 7 point favorite in this game, seems a little much to me.

Interesting.

The Raiders are in town.

On 10/29/2024 at 12:47 AM, Voice of Reason said:

Here is what I would like to see:

Murphy and Ossai getting more reps in passing situations.

Jenkins getting more reps than Rankins

Battle at safety instead of Bell

Burton at WR more than Iosivas. 

Moss as the 3rd down RB and Brown getting the reps on downs 1 and 2.

More blitzing by Lou.

 

What changes do you want to see this week?

Ok, all good, to me, the most important one on the list is the last one!!  Lou needs to become REALLY aggressive (blitzed only 6 times against Eagles even though Hurts is one of worst QBs in NFL under pressure)  what have you got to lose??  Think about this, if we get ONE stop against Washington we win the game, we had NONE!!  If we get ONE stop against Ravens the 2nd half the game never gets to OT!! We only had ONE stop against Philly the whole game!!  Maybe we’ll cause some TO’s!!!  Just one thing though Lou, when you do blitz don’t have our CBs playing 8 yds off the receivers like you did the 6 times you blitzed against Philly, that just defeats the purpose of blitzing!!!

On 10/30/2024 at 3:01 PM, mcpapa said:

I’m not convinced that the Bengals have to win out to reach the postseason. 11-6 or maybe 10-7 should do it.  

Agree, 10-7 definitely gets them in, in my opinion there will be at least one 9-8 in