Bengals-Browns: Just Awful

If you're currently watching this monstrosity that is Bengals-Browns game, I feel your pain. This is, quite simply, one of the worst football games I have ever watched. And it's not as if there is some sort of crazy variable playing havoc on the conditions (rain, wind, snow). It's just two awful, awful football teams toiling along at a field goal pace in the first half.

Ryan Fitzpatrick, starting in place of Carson Palmer, is 5-for-11 passing with two interceptions, while his biggest plays have come on a pair of rushes. Meanwhile, Derek Anderson is playing so poorly that Rich Gannon just described a 6-yard swing pass to a running back as a "a very positive play for Derek Anderson."

And now, as I'm writing this, the two teams just took part in a Chinese Fire drill of madness. Fitzpatrick threw his second interception of the game, this time to Browns cornerback Eric Wright. As Wright was running it back, a Bengals player knocked the ball out of Wright's hands into the waiting arms of Chad Ocho Cinco for a Bengals first down.

It's 6-3 Bengals at the half, and I'm still trying to figure out how these teams managed to combine for nine points.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

9-28-2008 @ 3:04PM

Wade said...

And I was the one stupid enough to listen to the Fanhouse experts in the fantasy chat about playing both Braylon Edwards and Kellen Winslow. Please put in Brady.

9-28-2008 @ 3:07PM

Tom Herrera said...

I'm really sorry Wade ... this is awful beyond belief, I just don't get it -- two bad defenses and the offenses are playing even worse. Braylon is actually jawing with Anderson on the sidelines and had to be separate by Jamal Lewis .. it's a mutiny.

9-28-2008 @ 3:21PM

The Mighty O'Ba said...

The Browns and the Bengals are truly two dissapponting franchises thus far in the NFL season, but to their credit this is the year that their division has to play the best division in football the NFC east.

9-28-2008 @ 3:47PM

Braylon picked up a TD, though. Some life.

10-02-2008 @ 10:23PM

Vanilla Cokehead said...

I made it through the first quarter and then decided to tackle less mind-numbing tasks, such as catching up on folding the laundry.

9-28-2008 @ 3:57PM

And one more thought: the late Pete Axthelm would have dubbed this game a "lethal injection game" - if one had a choice between watching this game and getting executed the choice would be to take the needle...

9-28-2008 @ 4:50PM

Jerry said...

It is time to relieve Marvin Lewis of his coaching responsibilitys in Cincinnati, I know it's not all his fault, but as the saying goe's, it start's at the top and rolls down hill.
But on the other hand Mike Brown would only get someone cheaper than Marvin with no better skills.