Quote:I just posted about this in the "My thoughts of the first 2 preseason games" thread:


Cincy is not a good measuring stick in the preseason. They usually look terrible. They don't game-plan. They play extremely vanilla. Starters don't seem to go full-speed/full-effort.


Preseason for them is all about avoiding key injuries (they've been bitten by that many times over the years); and evaluating talent for backup/depth. That's about it.


Marvin Lewis publicly said so a while back. He asked Rex Ryan not to play exotic offenses prior to a preseason matchup. Lewis said they didn't want to game-plan for that,, they just wanted to evaluate players. Rex Ryan obliged him.



Seriously, the Bengals in preseason are very weak,, and have been for a long time.

 

  The scary part of this for Bengals regular season and potential post-season opponents is even w/o game planning and being extremely vanilla,  all of their units, starters and depth,  looked strong in their last pre-season game.    I continue to be impressed by the Bengals personnel department. 

 

  Being that the third pre-season game is the most important one ( relatively speaking ) for an NFL team,  the Jags starters,  backups,  and 3rd stringers are all going to be tested even if the Bengals as expected do less game planning than most teams would this week.  

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