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After falling behind 3-0 early, the first lead for the Chiefs at home this year, the Bengals awoke from their sluggish start after a pair of 4th-down conversions, one of which was a Cedric Peeerman 32-yard run off of a fake punt. A.J. Green would later make an acrobatic one-handed 4-yard touchdown grab just inside the left sideline to give him the Bengals season record of 9 straight games with TD, while also putting his squad up 7-3.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, only Jerry Rice (12 in 1987) and Hershal Walker (10 in 1951) had longer single-season streaks than Green.
The Bengals would score again after a great fight by Gresham on a 3rd-and-GOAL to get into the end zone. He caught it at the 4-yard line and drug KC defenders to the goal line, but after a booth review, it was ruled he was down at the 1. The Bengals then went for it on 4th-and-inches at the goal line and Andy Dalton sold a perfect play-action fake and rolled out untouched into the endzone for the score to put the Bengals up 14-3. At that point, the Bengals were 0 of 6 on third down but 3 of 3 on fourth down. Marvin Lewis came to play today. It’s also worth noting the Bengals are now 11 of 14 on 4th-down this season.
After forcing KC into another three-and-out, the Bengals marched down the field, highlighted by a BJGE 21-yard run and a Cedric Peerman 19-yarder. Ellis would punch it in to put the Bengals up 21-3.
The Chiefs were able to muster up a last-minute drive that led to a Ryan Succop 33-yard FG to put the score at 21-6 in favor of the Bengals going into halftime.
Fresh off of a dominating performance that saw the Bengals send the Giants back to New York with a 31-13 beatdown, Cincinnati will now head to Kansas City to take on the Chiefs today. Thank you for joining us here at Stripe Hype as host our live blog and hopefully enjoy a Bengals win today. In case you missed here’s all of our latest stories on today’s game:
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I have scores of Chiefs fan friends who just received a mass trash-talking message. Thank you, Bengals, for putting the Misery in Missouri.
Simultaneous Dre praise below.
And Dre with some good coverage against corner route on 4th down.
Chiefs go for it on 4th and 2, but pass incomplete as Kirkpatrick with good pass coverage.
When the Chiefs stack the WRs with McCluster on the bottom, you gotta smell screen. Hall saw it, just couldn’t make the play.
Third scoring drive of 11 plays or more by the Bengals in this game
Romeo needs to take a page from Zim and mix in some zone to have a chance. Gruden and Dalton have cracked the code.
First Gresham, now Sanu. The Chiefs just can’t stop the Bengals’ most physical receivers over the middle.
Dalton hits Sanu on a crossing pattern for a 14-yard TD. Bengals lead 28-6
SANU!!!
Green just embarrassed Flowers off the line on that sideline catch, though. Green’s biggest improvement this season.
When Flowers and Carr were together, that was the best pair of corners in the league.
Got to give flowers credit. Other than one big catch, has really held Green in check. I’d say he’s one of the NFL’s 10 best corners. Really underrated because of team he plays on.
Good call on the dwindling clock. Might as well play zone and let them take the short stuff.
3rd-and-14: Bengals stop Moeki 6 yards short of 1st as 3rd QTR ends with Cincy still up 21-6.
That’s what happens when Maualuga gets overaggressive against the zone run.
While Bengals aren’t scoring or getting quick stops, they are forcing Chiefs to eat up clock. 1:00 left in 3rd after Quin mishandles snap.
After drive stalls,Huber punt is downed at KC-5 by Dre. Nice play rookie!
Brandon Tate is trying to prove me wrong, but that catch was all about a perfect throw from Dalton
Exactly. Gotta use him in space more.
Like seeing Green in some motion, doesn’t allow Flowers to press and gives some room underneath.
Zimmer targets the inexperienced Draughn in pass pro. Good delayed blitz, that’s what they get for benching Hillis.
Adam Jones gets the sack on 3rd down. Huge stop for Bengals. Bengals about to get ball back with 15 point lead with 7:35 left in 3rd.
Looks like Quinn is going to pick on Kirkpatrick. It’s a good game to get those rookie mistakes out of his system.
And then Geno pressure Quinn on 2nd down. Big 3rd down here for KC.
MJ stuffs Charles run. Gotta get some stops here.
With Dwayne Bowe’s return questionable, just key in on Jamaal Charles. Screens, runs and run fakes to Moeaki down the seam.
Chiefs best lineman is down in left tackle Brendan Albert
Looks like Brady Quinn is in, Matt Cassell out to open second half
Throwing to Brandon Tate rarely works out well. Any other receiver gets more separation on that route for a first.
That’s a rare screen pass to Green. Need to see more of those. Too good an athlete not to.
Halftime stats: Total yards: CIN 248 KC 148. Dalton 11-17, 129 yds; BJGE 12 carries, 62 yds; Gresham 4 rec, 56 yds; Atkins 4 tackles, 2 FF
Thought we would see a healthy dose of Emmanuel Lamur today to combat Charles, Moeaki on the post route vs two-high safeties.
Newman back in. Dre does need some more run though.
Bengals got off to a sluggish start, but after falling behind 3-0, have reeled off 21-straight behind 2 more Andy Dalton TD passes. Has now thrown 6 straight without an INT.
With Newman down, it could be Dre time. Looked like a rookie last week, but these Chiefs WRs could be a good confidence-builder.
Zeitler cleared the way for that touchdown. Set up by a pointless PI call by Jalil Brown who had Tate well-covered.
Another good catch and run by Gresham up the middle of the field. Got lucky his fumble bounced right back into his chest, though.
Hali is in Whit’s head. But Hali does that to many left tackles
More Cedric Peerman, please. Not great vision, but his acceleration is so much better than BGJE. Make a good, er, adequate tandem.
Peerman goes for 19 more
BJGE’s longest run of the year a 21-yarder up the middle,
Using the draw, roll out, Gruden dialing up great plays to take advantage of the man-blitz D from the Chiefs
Gresham knocks Hali down, then makes the nice catch in the flat and finds the first down marker.
Every week I lament that Orson Charles is not more involved. That holding call explains why he’s not.
Bengals are 0 of 6 on third down but 3 of 3 on fourth down. Marvin Lewis came to play today. It’s also worth noting the Bengals are now 11 of 14 on 4th-down this season.
Another poor choice on the screen on third down by the Chiefs. Vontaze made Charles sorry he worked so hard to catch that bad pass.
Newman couldn’t have covered Bowe any better on the sideline. Maualuga couldn’t have covered Charles any worse over the middle.
Maualuga missed tackle on Charles leads to what have been a 6-yard gain ends up being a 15-yarder
Dalton has made two huge plays with his legs today. Tyson Jackson shadowed him on one passing down, but all eyes were on BJGE on that TD.
The Bengals then went for it on 4th-and-inches at the goal line and Andy Dalton sold a perfect play-action fake and rolled out untouched into the endzoe for the score to put the Bengals up 14-3.
Runner down short inside 1
Gresham is owning Kansas City’s safeties today. With the threat of Green, safeties can’t play him aggressively. He’s really stepped up his game lately.
Gresham catches a pass at KC-5 and carries FOUR KC defenders in to endzone for TD. WOW!
I love that Dalton is going deep to AJ every time vs single high safeties. Flowers is good, but he’s going to lose more than win
After 40-yard pass play to Green, personal foul on Abram Elam for head-to-head contact puts ball at KC-10
And I’m with Jason, Crocker has been better than he has been in a long time. Been a huge boost.
Both teams have combined so far to go 1 of 10 on third down. But Bengals are 2/2 on 4th-down and is why they lead 7-3.
Bengals’ D did a good job getting penetration, keeping gaps vs the zone run w/Charles. Read that screen from the beginning, too.
Call me crazy, but Crocker playing as good, if not better than last year. Knee injury must have really hindered him last year. Bengals force three-and-out. Cincy ball at CIN-45 after KC penalty.
With a dirty pocket, Dalton has been bad. It’s not like any linemen actually lost their blocks. Needs to reset his feet, not rush the throw.
Dalton had 2 guys wide open but missed them both. Punt
Peerman in at RB. 2 rushes for 6 yards
Good 3-and-out to make up for the missed FG. Maualuga stuffed the run by playing more decisive than earlier. Gotta find those gaps quickly vs Charles.
Dalton sacked on 3rd down. Nugent wide left on 50-yd FG attempt
That sack was on Dalton. Have to climb the ladder in the pocket and get it out.
Burfict started that play by controlling the edge, making Hillis pause and Atkins caught up. Then he finishes with the recovery.
Charles fumbles. Recovered by Vontaze Burfict.Forced by…guess who? Geno Atkins.
Geno Atkins is just too good for the KC interior linemen. Johnson has the speed to turn the corner vs Albert in passing downs.
Green now has the Bengals single-season record with a TD in nine straight games. Now has 10 TDs on the year. Cin leads 7-3
When Dalton threw to AJ in the end zone I was saying no until the moment that Green snagged it. Double coverage doesn’t matter, TD Cincy.
And Gresham rumbles down to the KC-5. 1st-and-goal.
Dalton is starting to become uncomfortable in the pocket. That 4th conversion took advantage of man coverage and overload blitz. Maybe will keep Chiefs’ d honest.
Bengals can’t capitalize off fake punt, go for it on 4th-and-7, Dalton runs for 11. First-down Bngals
Well, they did say Peerman was going to be more involved. Not what I expected, but I’ll take it.
Flowers did a good job of rerouting Green, using the sideline as a defender. Still gotta take the shot
And Peerman with the fake punt runs it out to KC 40
Its also worth noting the Chiefs have their first lead at home this year at 3-0
Ellis stopped for no gain on first down. Another line hear all too often
The Bengals could really use a touchdown drive to keep the ball out of Jamaal Charles’ hands. Make Cassel throw it.
McCluster gets a 4 yard catch, and KC settles for FG to lead 3-0
Interesting to be seeing so much Hall vs the slot. Good use of his physicality, Jones has been lockdown outside, too.
“Maualuga sucked up by play action, Moeaki owns the seam when that happens”
The words “Maualuga” and “sucked” go together too often
And KC calls a TO
Bowe with a horrible push off but pass is incomplete. 3rd-and-5
Maualuga sucked up by play action, Moeaki owns the seam when that happens.
With KC’s pass rushing abilities, it’s going to be hard to deal with an overload blitz like that.
Sanu showed us why Baby Hawk is inactive. Like seeing the Chiefs’ d-line get pushed around.
And Sanu makes a fantastic one-handed grab for 9 yards
Good pressure on third down as the bengals force a three and out to open the game.
So far the Bengals doing a good job being patient vs zone run, not letting Jamaal Charles have cutback lanes.
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