After winning in Pittsburgh and winning in Baltimore and beating the Ravens in dramatic fashion in a game that wasn't even close, they've gone from being the hunter to the hunted. There is no doubt this Sunday's game against a 1-5 Jets team can be a trap game for them. However, they're led by a quarterback in Joe Burrow, a guy I heard say this week they're not satisfied. I think he sets the course of the mentality of this team and even though they've had some success, they understand they haven't arrived yet.
I think it's like when they went to Detroit to play. They didn't play down to the Lions' level. So I don't think they follow into a trap game mentality believing they just show up and beat the Jets. I don't think Joe Burrow is going to allow it to happen. He's just that kind of player. He's that kind of competitor. And with that, everyone follow his lead. He's that leader for this team.
THE EDGE: The Bengals are going to score 30 and I don't think the Jets will score even half of that. BENGALS, 31-15
The Bengals are just a better team. Hotter quarterback, hotter wide receiver, better defense. The only way I see the Jets making this a four-quarter game is if Cincinnati gets a little caught up in the rarified air of their big win last week. They've never been favored by more than eight points under Zac Taylor and this is the biggest road dog the Bengals have been since 2009. So this is a highly optimal situation for the Bengals. If they take the Jets lightly and look ahead to Cleveland, maybe it becomes a fourth-quarter game. But if they come out focused, I don't see how the Jets keep up with them.
The Jets defense has been very leaky the last couple of weeks. I'm sure they'll play a lot of zone and try to keep Ja'Marr Chase from beating them deep. It's going to be a very conservative soft zone to try and keep everything in front of them. Their pass rush has the potential to wreck the game, but what teams have been doing the last two weeks is a lot of screen passes, a lot of quick throws to really neutralize the front four. So I would expect that the Bengals will copycat that blueprint and just get rid of the ball quickly because if he holds the ball for three seconds or longer the Jets are going to get to him. They've got a pretty good front four.
Ultimately we'll know a lot early in the first quarter because the Jets have been outscored, 44-0, in the first quarter. It's a psychological thing for them. I think it's very much on their minds. If they can get through the first quarter and they can score, that would be fabulous for their psyches. Even just even-steven, that's almost a win for the Jets. But this game is very capable of getting away from them early.
THE EDGE: The crowd is going to be in a bad mood because of what happened in New England (Pats, 54-13) last week. I think they've lost patience in their re-building program already. If they get down early, they'll turn on them. It's Halloween, what the crowd will be wearing, who knows? BENGALS, 35-13
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