[Senator Clay Davis]

Taking nothing away from Kupp, he definitely deserved the MVP, but the Rams defense won them that game in the end. After the 75 yard TD and the instant turnover right after that, the Rams D proceeded to allow 61 yards on 31 plays to end the game. Just completely shut the Bengals down with a totally dominant second half. Bengals OLine did about as well as could be expected in that first half, but just couldn't maintain it all game. Good news is they have lots of cap space and can use most of their draft capital improving the trenches on both sides. But yeah letting Burrow get sacked 70 times a year is not gonna be sustainable in the long run.

Bengals did terribly in situational football last night. So many bad calls on third and fourth down from Zac Taylor, like running it with Perine on that third and two before the game ending play was especially bad. You're paying Joe Mixon $12 million a year, you should probably let him have the ball if you're going to run in that moment, especially since he was averaging 5 YPC. Also should have been looking to use Chase more a la Deebo with some runs, in the second half he didn't get the ball much because Burrow was being crushed, get the ball in your best playmakers hands in other ways.

Good game overall, definitely not an all-timer or anything close, but a good 7/10 game.