![]() The Steelers viewed this as the same old story of a Bengals meltdown. Game ball, key numbers, a very interesting quote from George Iloka and one of the most fitting songs of the game this season in the postgame analysis.īengals players stand behind their coach, who had an interesting statement about this being on him for not pushing the right buttons this year. The Steelers were able to fire off the final shots regarding Jeremy Hill's Terrible Towel toss after coming back to win. If there's a chance of further injury he should sit, but otherwise, let the guy who spent the last month rehabbing join his team on Sunday.ĭoc points out this loss looked all too familiar. At least, he says fairly adamantly in public it's not a factor. If you think Green is concerned about needing 36 yards for 1,000, he's not. Big picture message is about all that's left these last two games and Green's would be no matter what, he won't quit on these guys. ![]() That means something even while playing out the string. He doesn't want to feel like he gave up on his team. Green feels healthy enough to play and isn't risking further injury by taking the field he should be allowed to play. Press conference with Marvin Lewis at 3 p.m. Those are 23 drives in the fourth quarter/overtime of one possession games. Often numbers can be yanked around to fit your narrative, but there's no hiding from these. In the United States this year, Ken Zampese hasn't done it once. At some point in the most critical moments, you have to dial up a play that flips momentum for a touchdown and changes the game. Inevitably, all things trace back to the offensive coordinator. Sure, a young group of receivers, six weeks without Tyler Eifert and the revolving door at right tackle have a significant hand in the matter and deserve criticism. ![]() Green missing games lately, he played the majority of these drives. Who does this statistic fall on? Most every aspect of this offense is similar to the previous five seasons: quarterback, head coach, even with A.J. I truly believe a decade from now when somebody asks what happened with the 2016 Bengals you can just show them this chart and move on to talking about how efficient self-driving highways have become. Even those three atrocious quarterbacks converted at a far higher rate than the Bengals did this year. Pro-Football-Reference only goes back to 1999 for this particular data, but I figured going into the Akili Smith, Scott Mitchell and Gus Frerotte Era sufficiently proved the point anyway. Upon viewing the crazy score percentage differential, I couldn't help but keep tracking back into the dark ages before Marvin Lewis even arrived. With Dalton, score percentage never dipped below 33 percent. Now, let's take a look at those numbers historically under Andy Dalton for the Bengals: Only behind, yet again, the Browns and also the Chargers, Panthers. This the fourth-highest total in the league this year. Turnover percentage (26%): Only five teams were above 20 percent in this stat. Score percentage (13%): The Bengals were one of three teams to even be below 20 percent in this stat. Touchdown percentage (4%): This ranks 31st in the league as only the Browns - who didn't score a single TD in 17 drives - were worse. Let's dive deeper into how those compare to the rest of the league this season and Bengals history. The key numbers here are the touchdown, turnover and score percentage. To quote OutKast, go on and marinate on that for a minute. That's where the lone touchdown came as well, so the Bengals haven't scored a TD in the fourth quarter of a one-possession game on this continent all year. No surprise looking at those numbers, the Bengals were 1-6-1 in these games, the lone win against the Jets and obviously the tie in London. The eight games represented were New York Jets, Pittsburgh twice, Washington, Buffalo, New York Giants, Denver, Baltimore. Here are the basic stats thanks to the Pro-Football-Reference database: You can't imagine the type of failure the Bengals experienced on these drives this year. ![]() Those who don't, make reservations for the Scouting Combine. Every game is close in this deal and those who come through in big moments play in January and February. Year in and year out across this league, these are the drives that define every season for every team. This year, the Bengals offense received the ball 23 times with the game within a possession on a drive that concluded in the fourth quarter/overtime. You may be wondering how I could pick such an obscure number to show these were the drives that made the difference in a team now eliminated from the playoffs for the first time since 2010.
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