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Hungry Jack

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59 points without a defensive or special teams score. 552 yards on 70 plays. And all that without Colston Loveland showing up in the box score.

I'm still in shock.
 
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It is so hard after only one week to try and not overinterpret the results, but it is fun. It will be very interesting to see if Chicago can keep this up (well... not 59 PPG, but explosive offense), or will some sharp DC figure out what they are doing and shut it down. Chicago can also be happy that GB lost and Detroit didn't look too hot in barely hanging on against New Orleans breaking in a new QB.

For me as a Bengal fan, any win in Week 1 is a positive. The defense only gave up 20 points (7 Tampa points were a pick-6), which isn't shutdown, but better than years past. That was helped by recovering four fumbles, which obviously won't happen every week. But, like the Bears, when you have a strong offensive team, all you need is for your D to be average, and hopefully opportunistic in generating take-aways.
 
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CappyNU

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Both the Giants and Jets won on the same day for the first time in nearly 2 years, while they both won their openers for the first time in 17 seasons. Strange things afoot in the NFL this year already.
 
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Hungry Jack

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TheC said:
It is so hard after only one week to try and not overinterpret the results, but it is fun. It will be very interesting to see if Chicago can keep this up (well... not 59 PPG, but explosive offense), or will some sharp DC figure out what they are doing and shut it down. Chicago can also be happy that GB lost and Detroit didn't look too hot in barely hanging on against New Orleans breaking in a new QB.

For me as a Bengal fan, any win in Week 1 is a positive. The defense only gave up 20 points (7 Tampa points were a pick-6), which isn't shutdown, but better than years past. That was helped by recovering four fumbles, which obviously won't happen every week. But, like the Bears, when you have a strong offensive team, all you need is for your D to be average, and hopefully opportunistic in generating take-aways.
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As long as their health holds up, especially on the OL (and CW, of course), I think they will be extremely potent. So many weapons, and an HC and QB who knows how to use them.

CW is very hard to defend. The sky is the limit with him.
 
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NU Houston

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TheC said:
It is so hard after only one week to try and not overinterpret the results, but it is fun. It will be very interesting to see if Chicago can keep this up (well... not 59 PPG, but explosive offense), or will some sharp DC figure out what they are doing and shut it down. Chicago can also be happy that GB lost and Detroit didn't look too hot in barely hanging on against New Orleans breaking in a new QB.

For me as a Bengal fan, any win in Week 1 is a positive. The defense only gave up 20 points (7 Tampa points were a pick-6), which isn't shutdown, but better than years past. That was helped by recovering four fumbles, which obviously won't happen every week. But, like the Bears, when you have a strong offensive team, all you need is for your D to be average, and hopefully opportunistic in generating take-aways.
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Do you want to trade Joe Burrow for CJ Stroud? ;)

I don't know what to make of Stroud. He looked good for much of the game yesterday but couldn't finish at the end. Perhaps he was taking his cue from his fellow Buckeyes performance on Saturday night.

Bengals at Texans this weekend. Texans favored by 3. I don't know what to expect.
 
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