{"id":353409,"date":"2025-09-09T05:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/353409\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T05:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:21:12","slug":"espn-analyst-is-ecstatic-about-the-bengals-after-win-vs-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/353409\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN analyst is \u2018ecstatic\u2019 about the Bengals after win vs Browns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ladies and gentlemen, sound the alarm, because the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincyjungle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cincinnati Bengal<\/a>s are 1-0 for the first time since 2021 after an ugly win (to say the least) over the Cleveland Browns on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The offense was horrid and struggled to find any momentum after the first few drives, and was almost nonexistent in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After all the offseason chatter, the Bengals defense answered the call and made some massive plays down the stretch to lock down a week 1 win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Bengals defense struggled last season but flipped the script this weekend and came up with two massive interceptions to seal a victory over a division rival, on the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To no surprise, the Bengals offense is now getting grilled for their week 1 performance, but those who watch Cincinnati understand the offense is never good in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky understands this and is actually \u2018ecstatic\u2019 about the Bengals\u2019 week 1 performance because the defense showed up big time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m ecstatic if I am the Bengals. I feel so much better if I\u2019m Cincinnati than I did going into it. Their defense looked so much better,\u201d Orloskvy stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The ESPN Analyst defended the Bengals for the lackluster offensive performance because it was long overdue for the defense to take care of business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The offense will get it together, as always, so there should be no reason to sound the alarm for that unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ladies and gentlemen, sound the alarm, because the Cincinnati Bengals are 1-0 for the first time since 2021&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,4226,2296,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-353409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-analysis","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}