I'm just going to do my thoughts on the game early today

That's another good point I overlooked. It took the Bengals about five or so minutes to ring up two touchdowns on us.

The suggestion was that we needed to run the ball to control the clock. My response was we did so already.

That the Bengals only needed 25 minutes to put up 31 points is incidental. Running the ball would have produced no more of a ToP discrepency that what we already had.