Will Joe Burrow & Ja’Marr Chase SAVE the Bengals? | Enter the Jungle
The Cincinnati Bengals are 4-6, despite Joe Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase playing as great as anyone in the NFL.
Are they great enough to save the 2024 Bengals? Has Zac Taylor lost confidence in Evan McPherson? What’re the BIGGEST concerns going into Sunday’s showdown with the Los Angeles Chargers?
James Rapien and Andrew Fox Miller answer those questions and so much more on this week’s episode of Enter The Jungle!
00:00 Are Burrow and Chase enough??
06:19 Evan McPherson Losing Trust?
12:39 Chargers vs. Bengals biggest concern?
18:44 Cornerback Anxiety strikes back
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I'm not buying an ounce of it lol. zac taylor know he cappin!😂😂😂bengals had the ball up 7 points on the baltimore 40 yard line on 4th & 16…………..and they punt??? any other season in mcpherson's career and the bengals would most definitely the field goal in that scenario. that was definitely NOT an "aggressive" decision. zac taylor's confidence isn't high on mcpherson at all. do I blame him for it? not really considering Evan McPherson currently ranks 30th in the NFL in FG% this season (76.5%). but it's clear as day that zac taylor is cappin.😂😂😂
sidenote: my biggest concern with this team is 4th quarter/holding on to leads. the bengals are 0-3 against the chiefs and ravens games combined with the bengals having the lead in all of those games entering the 4th quarter. and even in some of the wins they have, it feels like the bengals just let teams hang around close in the 2nd half more than they should instead of finishing their opponents all the through the game. the bengals this year have a +8 point differential overall, but have a -32 point differential in the 4th quarter. this was something that didn't used to be a problem the last few seasons and they are somehow struggling in that aspect this year smh.
This team reminds me of the saints when they averaged the most points per game on offense There defense gave up the most most on defense ended up missing the playoffs. You need some kind of defense to get some crucial stops all we have is trey on defense.
Burrow and chase are gonna pull a Carson Palmer on us and bounce because our front office is trash!
Bengals suck Lamar, is that dog-dragon Joe can't even get a 2 point conversion after having 3 flags to get up the field sad😂😭
Woh day
If u throw the ball 100 times a game, qb cant help but have hi numbers
WE NEED TEE TO PLAY
Cam isn’t the best CB on the bengals he actually the worst in the league he has the most allowed yards this season and can’t tackle biggest fall off
Man we are going to beat the charges this weekend watch and see
Have to be good enough to also beat the refs, which pretty much means being up by 2 scores at the 2 minute warning. Calls always get weird and inconsistent to make the end of games more dramatic. It's pretty much down to luck with this defense and regressing O-Line. Yes, the offense will show up and do what they have to do to win games. Which defense shows up comes down to luck.EDIT: About McPherson, It's been a rotating door with holders and Cal is showing he is not the most accurate long snapper, these little minutiaes matter, It's not all Evan. Dude also has a newborn so maybe aint sleeping good.
Whatever the numbers are is B.S at this point! Look at the wins and the QB! If the blame is on ZT,THEN BLAME BURROW! ZT is not on the field. BURROW is getting paid enough to play off script and extend plays! Stop giving him #9 a pass
We need Tee
Unless Ja'Marr pulls a Travis Hunter and goes play corner and Burrow takes over as the lone play caller those two by themselves aren't gonna be able to fix this mess
Burrow for Dak and 3 number #1's…
Bottom line is beat the chargers… show the world you can beat a decent team
Money Mac makes me nervous every time its his turn.
The Defense is mentally wearing out the whole team including the fans.
I love our offense but there are going to be times when are Offense will struggle.
I Don think we make it this year
Delusional fan. Borrow is not the best QB.
Steven Nelson or Jerry Jacobs would be solid pick-ups for the cornerback room.
The reason LAC is 6-3 is because they beat 2-3 win teams. All 6 are against non-winning teams. They don't give up many points, that is true. But they haven't played a single explosive offense yet this year.
I'd love for the Bengals to find some defensive MOJO and make the playoffs……….But do I really??? The team still needs playmakers on both sides of the ball. If they make the playoffs, I'm afraid they won't address their issues. This year could be a wake-up call for getting the right quality players in place. The Bengals can't afford to go through what they went through in the 90's and 2000's, especially with the talent of one Joe Burrow. People bash Mike Brown and family for being cheap. They have been very old school over the years, but slowly changing their ways the past few. We need them to change just a little faster. We know they can't pay everyone, but if other teams can finagle contracts to stay competitive, then so can the Bengals……..We need Zac Taylor to be creative in coaching AND the office to get creative with contracts. We also need the player evaluators to be accountable for so many players who don't evolve…..that's either a bad evaluation OR the inability to make them better OR both…..FIX IT!!!!
So I was thinking if they talked so highly about Matt Lee why isn’t he playing because if he was ranked so high coming out of College is it crazy to think that he starts at center and you move Ted Karras to right guard and get rid of Cappa because he is horrible at that position and he is washed and on defense I think the young DT Jenkins and Jackson have played well with Trey the issue is Left DE and I am confused with why they are not playing Cedric Johnson more every time he has been in he has made a disruptive play. I love Hubbard and appreciate everything he’s done for this team but on passing downs put Cedric Johnson in and leave Hubbard for the running plays,I don’t understand why this team don’t get this,my last issue is why are we not playing these younger corners clearly CTB doesn’t have it this year so let’s play Ivey and and the Boy from TCU and also one last thing stop taking Battle out he is clearly better than Gino Stone. I would play Battle and Anthony as my starting safeties. It’s time the young players step up. I’m sorry, but Von Bell is supposed to be the general and calling out the defensive scheme and he sucks never been a Von Bell fan also I think it’s smarter to play Davis Gaither and Njongmeta on passing Downs, they are clearly faster than Wilson and Pratt who consistently gets burned with TE’s it’s not that hard to figure out …
Do you think having Ryan Rehkow as a holder now is effecting McPherson? A small little change can totally screw a kicker up. Not making excuses for the dude but this isn’t the “Money Mac” we’re used to seeing.
One last thing I half to say is that I appreciate and respect your opinion and the opinion of Jake and Andrew, but my thing is this Zac Taylor has an old-school mentality. He draft players to sit them on the bench. I’m sorry this is the new NFL this is the 20th century you don’t draft players to sit them on the bench, if you draft players one through seven, these players are NFL ready you play them and thats Zac’s biggest problem he’s got that old school mentality prove to me that you wanna play. No, you put them on the field so they can gain the experience so they can get better too many players that they have drafted so far has sat on the bench and then got traded to another team. I don’t understand it. Please explain it to me
Speaking of Bengals vs Chargers and Randy Bullock almost forgot the mystery leg injury that struck Bullock when he gagged get to ot chip fg in joes first game. Great show except the haunting but unintentional reminder. Another late game BUNGALITIS
It's over. No saving this. We have bad coaching and a lot of not good players on defense. They ll be lucky to win another game this year