giovedì 18 dicembre 2014

NFL: Cleveland Browns 0 Cincinnati Bengals 30 recap and analysis

Cincinnati started the game with the ball and they moved the ball with their RBs alternating them in both running and passing game (flat routes) finishing to score a TD with Jeremy Hill on a dive in short yardage situation. After the Browns went 3 and out oh their 1st possession of the game the Bengals scored again this time with a Nugent's FG after Haden missed a difficult interception in his endzone. Cincy returned a Browns punt right to their 26 yards. Hill scored another rushing TD with an impressive powerful run on his right side of the line who provided him good space to run. Browns nightmare continue when Manziel got picked off by CB Kirkpatrick on a awful pass missed inside of the hand of his WR. Cincinnati hasn' been able to cash in completely but at least they got other 3 points with a FG. Cleveland reaction came with their defense exactly when LB Robertson picked of Dalton covering an inside route by TE Eifert. The lil reaction by Cleveland has been killed by Pacman Jones who picked Manziel off in the endzone on another embarassing pass made off balance that ended a 1st half dominated by the Bengals who saw an awful Manziel who wasted every single possession he had.
The 2nd half has been nothing but garbage time characteryzed by the Bengals running who literally let this game fell asleep and doing that the achieved a very well deserved win.
With th lack of news in the 2nd half i prefered to give more space to the analysis; The Browns played the worst game they should play, this was their last chance to get a post-season spot and it wasn't the right time for coach Pettine make experiments in a key position as the QB is, also i have to be in the defence of him for this choice due to the inconsistency of Hoyer in recent starts with a way more interceptions than TD pass, i'm not a fan of Hoyer and honestly i thought that would be hard to see something worse than he provided in last weeks but Manziel completed the mission in a great way, i can't even write all the things he made wrong because i haven't enough space to do that and also i can't even write the good things that he has done because i didn't anything good in 60 minutes. The offensive struggle along with Haden injury have been the mojor motivations to the 30 points allowed on defense because even if the Browns defense didn't play their best gamethey started the game doing a decent job especially on Dalton who struggled all game long to find other targets than AJ Green.
On the Bengals side they played the right game to don't take risks on passing game against the very good CB s like Haden and Gilbert and let their RBs to run the ball, their o-line done a very good to open the holes necessary to Hill to be dominant especially on inside powerful runs, their passing game missed the TE Graham inactive due to an injury so they went to Green the majority of the times with the always good results that he provides every game since he came in the league, by the way the other receivers have to produce more to not become mono-dimensional and easy to stop.
The MVP of this game is Bengals RB Jeremy Hill who finished the game with 148 yards and 2 TDs but also their defense who shutout the Browns ( their last 4th shutout happened against the Browns ).










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