The Cincinnati Bengals are looking good with a 27-15 win over the Miami Dolphins Thursday night to give the Dolphins their first loss of the season. With Cincinnati advancing to 2-2 and the Dolphins dropping to 3-1 let’s go through both teams and give my biggest takeaway.
For the Miami Dolphins, first of all prayers up for quarterback Tua Tagovailoa who suffered a scary neck and head injury when being sacked into the turf in the first quarter, Tua did have to go to the hospital but good news he did fly back with the team. Even though Tua was out for for most of this game backup QB Teddy Bridgewater look good in his role as a backup serving for Tua, Bridgewater threw 14-23 with a touchdown and a pick in his three quarters of action, while Tua was in the game he was on route to throw for over 400 yards with his 8-14 and a pick in his little time playing.
Miami’s defense also played well for the most part but the fins defense being on the field for 90 snaps really took a toll on them in the fourth quarter, with the Bengals being such a explosive team, the fins defense couldn’t keep up with the Bengals receivers in the fourth due to Miami’s defense just being so tired, that’s really when the Bengals offense really opened up.
Credit to the Bengals for fighting back to 2-2 after having a very rocky start with losing to the Steelers and Cowboys in week 1 and 2, in those weeks the Bengals gave up 13 combined sacks in those two games, in weeks 3 and 4 the Bengals offensive line only gave up three combined sacks, that’s the biggest difference in why the Bengals are really starting to look like the Bengals in the playoffs last year.
Last night Cincinnati was really struggling on offense against this stout Miami defense, but once the fourth quarter came around this Bengals offense really showed up with Tee Higgins and Jamaar Chase combining for over 200 yards. Joe Burrow also played well, throwing 20-31 with two touchdowns and no picks.
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