This was the easiest game of the week by far, and only game I played. Read this thread yesterday but couldn't remember my password and passed out. Anyway I'm not sure why anyone thought Cincy had a chance on the road without AJ.
Luck and this colts team is now 11-1 ATS home to QBs with a QBR under 90. Dalton's is 80?
Colts possess the #1 passing offense in the NFL, what did people think would happen when they were at home, with their top elite WR back (who had a terrible game anyway) facing a bottom 10 pass defense that Cincy has? This was easy pickings, the only thing that would have stopped the Colts was Vegas, because this line was so off, and did not account for AJ at all, public got free money here.
Chuck Pagano, lastly, is not a moron. You think he didn't watch any tape on this Cincy team? You think he was not aware of how good Jeremy Hill is?
SMH. All I have to say about this one, shades of KC Chiefs @ Colts when KC had highly touted 1800 yard rusher Larry Johnson come in and he was supposed to keep the ball out of Peyton Manning's hands to pull off the upset... that was a blow out for the Colts. This SHOULD have been a 35-42 point outing for the Colts offense, Bengals defense is a horrible unit. The Bengals as a team, without AJ, are a terrible team and have no business being in the playoffs either, by far the worst team in the playoffs when it started. Passing attack? Same level as Jags/Titans/my Raiders. Pass defense? Bottom 10. Pass rush? Terrible.
They literally have nothing going for them, except an amazing running back in Jeremy Hill, but any NFL coach knowing this would be able to bottle up Hill in the playoffs. Not sure why people thought the Colts were totally inept, people forget they were destroying teams when Hilton was healthy early/middle part of the season.
That said I'm not betting the Colts @ Broncos game next week got my eyes on different games.
Great cap job Hardcorecap, sorry for the vent just have no idea why anyone would even consider the Bengals. They are comically bad on offense without AJ, and comically bad on defense all the time.