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Mitchell Tinsley is back after a ‘three-week vacation to Houston’ (opens the original)
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Ten days ago, Mitchell Tinsley was up in a suite at Reliant Stadium in Houston. The Texans have their practice squad players watch the game from that vantage point, and Tinsley was on the practice squad at the time.Looking down, Tinsley observed a few things.He saw a group of Texans’ receivers, minus injured No. 1 receiver Nico Collins, get overwhelmed by the Bengals’ secondary and miss on a handful of contested catch opportunities that could have swung the game. Tinsley also watched his friends
The mystery box in the Bengals’ secondary (opens the original)
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In the week that the Cincinnati Bengals face one of the best slot wide receivers in the NFL and one of the most detailed and efficient offenses in the league, they’ve lost their starting slot corner to IR and have the most uncertain picture in the secondary that the Bengals have had in any single week of Zac Taylor’s tenure with the team.DJ Turner will start at outside corner on Sunday against the Jaguars. Dax Hill will start somewhere. After that? With Davis out for at least the next month, bac
Four shot plays tell the story of Joe Burrow’s Week 3 performance (opens the original)
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The goal, according to Dan Pitcher, is for the offense to be whatever it needs to be out of every formation that the Cincinnati Bengals line up in, no matter what coverage they’re facing.“You (have to) present a run formation out of whatever formation you line up in,” Pitcher said. “You have to present the ability to distribute the ball quickly. You got to present the ability to throw the ball down the field.”The Bengals face specific, unique coverages that teams seem to only trot out when they
Bengals film room: A spotlight on the secondary (opens the original)
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Even though a Pittsburgh Steelers’ offense that had been flailing all season dropped 30 points on the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 3, the Bengals’ defensive line actually played really well.What happened with the pass rush on the Steelers’ most important plays of the game tells the story of the matchup between the Steelers’ offense and the Bengals’ defense.Here’s a summary of what the Bengals’ pass rush did on the Steelers’ biggest passing plays: Defending a screen, forcing a quarterback hit, forc
Unpacking the mistakes in the Bengals’ loss to the Steelers (opens the original)
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PITTSBURGH — Cincinnati Bengals safety Kyle Dugger said that he got banged up on a special teams play in the fourth quarter on Sunday. After the game, he had a large wrap around the upper-half of one of his legs. Initially, after the injury, Dugger stayed in the game. “Myself, making good decisions, being injured and staying on the field was kind of a selfish decision on my part,” Dugger said in the locker room after the 30-27 loss.After he got hurt, Dugger’s next snap took place with 7:39 left
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