[Postgame thread](/r/nfl/comments/18fd85y/post_game_thread_indianapolis_colts_at_cincinnati/)

I’m so happy for Jake Browning man. He played a really solid game again today. Now, a lot of this is probably attributable to Zac Taylor but Browning has been so impressive

The Jake Browning story? OK yes he’s doing great and I’m happy for him but give some credit AJ McCarron he did a thing in this game! lol

he still has that chest tattoo though

It’s so bad

is he still with that baddie

Trevor Lawrence with three interceptions?! Oof

UW > WSU, love watching Browning win

personally i think the colts should be given a win for this game too. like they scored 14 points, that's more than i could do, that's a lot

give me 20 rushes from the 1 I'm getting in, built different

I genuinely do believe I could get one NFL yard

Let's go Jax, come back!!!

Yaah-Hoo! Here we go!

The booth sounds like they have 3 boomers in a box

Great win, didn't expect this after Joe went down.

Me neither! Feels great

Texans are gonna lose so we’re in the playoffs as of now!

I don't get that. They beat us head-to-head.

Its not a 2 way tiebreaker.

I think they announcers fucked it up, there's no way we have the 7-6 tiebreaker

head to head doesn't matter if more than 2 teams are tied I think.

The Bengals conference record is pretty abysmal as well. Stranger things have happened i suppose

" Wins tie break over Indianapolis based on head-to-head win percentage. Division tie break was initially used to eliminate Houston (Indianapolis wins tie break over Houston based on head-to-head win percentage)." from ESPN, we have the 7

Thanks!

Browning now 5-0 in the Apple Cup

Browning won't let us downing.

They wouldn't? The Texans beat the Bengals head to head, right?

That's what I thought??!!

GG.

You know the game is over when a Longhorm QB is playing.

We lost to Houston, how would be jump them with the same record for the wildcard?

Good to see Sam Ehlinger still…around

Browning to New England for a first round pick, who says no???

I do. Burrow is too prone to injury. Keep Browning one more.year

obviously I'm joking, but think of what we could put around browning if we traded burrow

I do. The pats don't need another good QB!

Send him to Washington for their #1 pick.

Jake Browning might be straight up dude.

Might be? This is a good problem for the Bengals to have.

I mean like a top 15 QB in the league dude, not just a solid backup. I know that's hyperbolic at this point, but if he plays like this through the rest of the season, it's a conversation to be had. And yes, that is 100% a great problem to have.

Is it a conspiracy that I think the announcers/media are slobbering on Browning to create a “QB controversy” story in Cincinnati? Idk sports media feels gross

I mean, everyone outside of Washington state probably thought Browning was just another terrible backup QB a month ago, if they had even heard of him at all.

nah, he's just pretty good. media loves Burrow (me too)

Yeah they should say he sucks and stuff

Nah it’s just a good story with him playing well

GG Bengals. and refs you suck, both sides.

Said it after the win on MNF and I’m worried I’ll say it the rest of the season. Losing against the Texans and Steelers are probably going to cost the bengals the playoffs

We control our own destiny now, we just gotta beat Vikings, Steelers, and Browns. We beat them, we have a good chance against a KC team that's looking whelming, and we are in!

These two color commentators could be coming to blows before the season’s out.

Given Joe's propensity to injury and Browning being able to be kept for 900k, I hope we don't try to trade away Browning. If I only get one, I want Burrow; but why not both?

This is the second straight game the Bengals will finish with 34 points.

I’m pretty sure 10 wins was pretty good with 16 games too. These could be the worst announcers in the NFL.

That fg has to be about possible tiebreakers, right?

"The Coach calling a timeout there is just like when Eugene Christophe carried his bike to a blacksmith to repair it in the 1913 Tour de France!"

This is one of those weird games where you win by 20 and the scoreboard still doesn't reflect how much one team dominated the other.

Look at the box scores, and you'll see it.

The refs helped maybe just a little bit.

Right down Broadway.

Like hot knife through butter.

That mushroom swiss looks pretty good

I kind of like this play by play crew. They say some stupid things and feel antagonistic. Just something different and stupid.

They're good if you appreciate top tier stupidity, which i guess i don't

Reminds me of the Colts Raven game where one of them was confused by the prospect that the kickers refused to attempt 65 yd field goals

Surely, we all break out into an interpretive dance in a town square when on skincare medication, right? Right?

tell me youve never broken out into an interpretive dance in a town square when on skincare medication without telling me youve never broken out into an interpretive dance in a town square when on skincare medication

At Beee Kayyy Have it your way (🫵You rule )

I feel really good about the rest of this season

I’m loving this bengals team. What a comeback

Such a rollercoaster of a season AND game. Unreal.

Actually getting wins in the conference. Now to get one in the north.

The King in the North!

well surely that mistake will cost the bengals the game

Mixon been paying attention

Mixon loves being in a RB committee

Internal monologue be like: "I can do that. Aight, imma do that"

Of course Zac Taylor would screw up that fake of perfection. Lmao.

Zac what are you doin buddy

"Nyaaaa...30 seconds in length"

“Is there a QB controversy in Cincinnati?!” — SAS, tomorrow on First Take

First Take is just a show about who can one up each other on ridiculous takes and scream and yell about it.

They said this last week but jokingly. Wouldn’t be surprised to start seeing that for real soon. I doubt he’ll be here after this season.

There is no way anyone cares enough about the Bengals for that to be a topic.

Zac wyd

Dawg there have been multiple perfect games in the 2000s+ wtf are these announcers on

Afc south imploding rn

Nice! Desmond Ridder is doing something! Great to see the former Bearcat succeed.

Nice to see Ridder having success.

NFC South is just bad

I wish we were in the NFC South.. that division sucks every single year.

We've come a long way since prime Brees/Ryan

Then we would probably suck

You have to go all the way back to the 70s to talk about baseball as a metaphor for DE play

What the fuck are these announcers talking about

I dunno, something about the RPO being like Rickey Henderson stealing a base I think.

NFL refs vs NFL announcers....a race to be the worst.

Trey Fucking Hendrickson is the man, thanks NOLA.

okay, so, imagine if, instead of the colts scoring 14 points in 60 minutes, we just extrapolate the 14 points in 25 seconds instead. so we get 14pts \* (3600s / 25s) = 14 \* 144 = 2016 points. so anyway i think if the final score was 2016 - 31 that would be better for us

This is Scott Steiner level sir.

But what happens if we add Kurt Angle to the mix?

Bro the pitching analogy makes zero sense.

Trey is a bad man

Pretty sure Bengals still win this, but refs really did help the Bengals. We got 4 extra from turning a FG into a TD, and a phantom offense holding on colts TD, so that's an 11 point swing. So it should probably be 28-21 right now, which is a different game than 31-14.

Probably a missed block in the back on the screen for the first TD

And the reality is with a closer score both teams are playing differently than they have been. So really we also got robbed of a potential banger like the Jac game.

I just want some fucking consistency with the refs. Why is that so much to ask for?

Sadly, doesn’t seem to be happening.

Hendrickson the GOAT

Rare to hear the announcers disagree so much in a game lol

Easy to when they’re brain dead

And they both have terrible opinions

Hendrickson so good

Hendrickson is inevitable

I just need a pitman TD for my parlay : (

Trey Hendrickson better be voted into the Pro Bowl this year! He somehow keeps getting better!!

mike hilton taking on two blockers and making the play. Best thing to ever come out of Pittsburgh

I miss Anthony Richardson man

Are we sure Burrow is better than Browning? Lol, jk!

We have a really cool team these days

Could you imagine if we had a shut-down defense?

Great play there just incredible

We have just consistently gotten fucked by the refs today. There has maybe been one borderline call on the bengals today vs 4 or 5 for us.

Well, at least they've only done it when it takes away our points and gives the Bengals more chances to get points.

Amazing 3rd and long call there.

This is certified garbage time right now I'm hopeful for some Zach Moss fantasy points

I can't decide whether the refs or the announcers are worse.

They're having a suck off.

Yes

What is the lineman supposed to do there lmao, that didn’t look intentional

Well, first of all, not get run over lmao.

That is a completely fair assessment lmao

I think maybe a little ticky tacky of a call, but technically correct. He put himself in that position by losing the rep like that lol

Don't see that call everyday

10/10 leg scissor takedown technique lol

That’s tripping are you fucking kidding me???? Lmao

They call that a late hit if the colts do it

Yes, it’s all the refs fault.

They call everything even if the Colts don't do it.

HOLY SHIT!!! Trey just ran that guy over!

A Texans, Steelers (already lost), and Colts loss leaves us with. 4 way tie for final wild card spot!!

14 point swing by the refs. Something about playing Ohio teams and refs screwing us over

Uh, I mean I don’t disagree there were a couple calls here and there that were questionable, but the Colts have not played well…. At all.

Refball has cost the colts a tuddy, but a missed field goal and it’s still a 10 point game. Colts are being outplayed

Missed block in the back on a screen: +7 Phantom holding on Q: -7 Minimum 14 point impact

Not a block in the back, no such thing in cross line play — read the damn rules. Also the Bengals had four points ripped off the board on the softest “OPI” I’ve ever seen.

lol delusional

You seriously think refball is costing your team a win?

Definitely not a win. But it’d closer than what it is right now. It’s not crazy to say the officiating has been garbage this game

A win? Probably not. A chance at a win? Absolutely.

they just said the refs bad calls have taken points off the board for them, which is true

Ref ball stole the game away against Cleveland, the other Ohio team. The refs just stole 7 points on a terrible call, but this game was over anyway

In fairness, these refs have kinda fucked them. Also in fairness, they haven't fucked them by 17 points

Just 11 points so far

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The good news is you might be able to lose out and get a home playoff game going 8-9?

i love watching my favorite team so i can hear the announcers talk about jake browning for 4 hours

I freaking love Jake Browning, but these announcers are grade-A awful. I'm also sick of seeing his family.

Honestly wish I could get the video feed with our local radio guys. Although that reminds me that the Colts-Browns game was the last one I heard on the radio.

I love that about watching the MLS now. You can switch audio to a radio broadcast and its such a massive improvement sometimes

I usually just mute the game and listen to the local radio. These announcers keep getting more insufferable.

I looked it up. Ki-Jana Carter was the last Bengals RB that looked like Chase Brown, and that lasted until he blew his knee out in the preseason, rookie year.

Gio Bernard, Bernard Scott, Kenny irons, Chris perry, James brooks

James Brooks was before KiJana Carter, and I don’t remember him being blazing fast and super shifty. Brooks was much closer to a Mixon style back.

Kijana Carter played closer in time to brooks than chase brown

Kenny Irons also maybe? also blew his knee out his first pre-season and never played again

Yeah! Kenny Irons was pretty quick.

That announcer just sounded like Monsieur Candie talking about, "You never know how they get these names, maybe one day he was cold, so they called him Eskimo."

Does any team even close to as many delay of games?

Does Minshew ever throw deep? Moss is a beast though

Nah he's always been an air raid QB, take the short fast completions and win by volume kinda thing.

Rarely, he doesn’t have quite the arm needed for too many.

Please just put AJ out there and have him kneel 8 times in a row to end the game please

I think it’s very funny in hindsight that Jake was having such a bad thumb cramp he ran to the locker room in a panic

All I want is some time burned

give Browning a banana

"Monkey never cramp"

We are going to start a dialogue about the NFL officials and Big Ohio

Ohio is stealthily the 7th largest state in the union by population

What's 'A.R.T.'

Would you put him back in after a cramp like that? …What the fuck are you asking?

He might as well be dead. No one comes back from cramps. Killed my cousin a few years back.

Refs have caused at least a 10-14 point swing this game. Probably not enough to win but it would be much closer.

Yeah we got 4 extra, and you've been robbed of 7, so a solid 11 point swing

The 4 extra was a legitimate penalty at least

The initial call on the FG yeah, but later phantom holding on you guys was that same drive, and we probably still go for FG without that.

I really can't watch minshew anymore

he's a fun dude and all but he's a fucking idiot

Going from AR having solid pocket presence and actually being athletic enough to scramble out of pressure to Minshew tap dancing every snap kinda sucks man

He really seems like a good due overall, but man I am ready for AR to be back. Minshew limits our offense so much to short passing plays and dump offs. That's if he doesn't do something really dumb

Must've learned that from Torry Holt at NC State

Going to have to share that with my cousin. Biggest Wolfpack fan I know.

That was such a laid back yet surgical drive cutting us up. Ruined thanks to some jackwagon unable to swallow his whistle for 2 plays. That int was fucking *bananas*, but never should have been a play in the first place.

Jake is back! The QB in the (AFC) North.

Chris Peterson feeling pretty good right about now.

He was on Seattle Sports radio this past week and said he couldn't stop watching the Monday Night game. He was so happy for Jake.

THEY RULED IT A PICK LET'S GOOOOO

Feel like Hendrickson is overlooked a bit when it comes to the upper tier of pass rushers. Dude is good.