This is Huge for the Bengals...

This is huge for the Bengals because Baltimore just got hit with some major injury news and it could completely change the way that this game plays out on Sunday. We're diving into all of it all the way from quarterback to the defensive side for the Ravens and the Bengals looking at the injury news ahead of Sunday's game against Baltimore. Thank you guys for joining us here today on Bengals Digest. I'm your host Adam Ianni. Really happy to be here with you guys today. Thank you for tuning in wherever you may be and if you're part of that 75% who watch and are not yet subscribed help us reach our goal of 6,000 subscribers that's completely free to do so as we dive in today talking about the first bit of injury news Tavius Robinson is out for the season for the Ravens so they're suffering some losses here in this one and you know it's one of those things where it's a strange thing when you get older right you know it gets a little bit harder to recover. 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According to Jesse Mentor, he is out this week. Now, getting into some other practice absences, Lamar Jackson was in uniform at practice for the second straight day, but it's tough to evaluate how his ankle feels. Not a lot of dynamic movement. Tavius Robinson, Jalen Hawkins, Calais Campbell, and Ronnie Stanley all missing at practice. seems unlikely Robinson and Hawkins will play Sunday versus Cincinnati and looking at Jalen Hawkins 30 tackles on the year definitely a solid safety definitely a piece that they are going to be missing and hopefully the Bengals can target that on that defense now as mentioned Lamar Jackson still has not committed to Sunday his status is still unclear at the moment according to Jeff uh Z Rabiek he said Lamar is headed in the right direction but he can't tell whether he'll be ready sunday called it a very painful sprain so even if he does end up playing that's going to limit his mobility a ton jackson said he doesn't need to be a hundred percent to play but he can't be a statue out there said he's trying to play through his injuries when he was a bit healthy last year was dumb a little bit so it sounds like he is trending toward not playing which of course means that Tyler Huntley would be in the place for him and he's not a bad quarterback but I think that the Bengals can definitely target his weaknesses more than they have with Lamar Jackson you look at his stats over four games this season he's looking to have a pretty good year if it weren't for that injury now moving on to the Bengals side of things their injury report looks very good It looks a lot better than it has in weeks past. So quick rundown of their injury report. Kyle Duggar was a full participant in Friday's practice. No game status set yet. BJ Hill was limited. He was just limited for rest. Jonathan Allen did not participate, but it was also related to rest. So no Bengals player carries an injury designation set as out for Sunday. So it seems like these full participants, a couple of them sitting out with rest, they definitely can take advantage of that coming off the bye definitely great that they got it out of the way early we're able to rest up hopefully that doesn't cause some question marks down the season but looking at the Ravens injury report it's a lot more lengthy and five times more lengthy technically considering the Bengals don't have any Lamar Jackson questionable Jalen Hawkins Tavius Robinson, TJ Tampa, and Broderick Washington, all questionable, doubtful, or out for this game. So the Bengals are looking good in terms of the advantage that they have off the injury report. So they don't have anyone with an injury designation for Sunday. And I really think that Joe Burrow can look to attack this hurt defense specifically. I mean, we can talk about Lamar all day and I'm sure we will before Sunday but I think Burrow has a very good opportunity to really boost that completion percentage and really get some more stats padded up in this game and what is still going to be a very good game against a very good team even though they are hurt so what do you guys think matters most for Cincinnati on Sunday do you think that attacking a depleted Ravens defense or making Lamar Jackson prove he can move I personally think considering Lamar is questionable, I'm going to go with A. I think that they need to attack this depleted Ravens defense, figure out specifically the run game. You got to get the run game going. You got to get them worn down on that defensive side. And commenter Ron Schilling, subscriber who's always in there, he said, we need a running game. We want this team to compete during the playoffs. Team just looks different when they can run the ball. Completely agree with that. Running the ball keeps our defense fresh and it lowers the hits on burrow so looking at burrow and how he's played up to this point in the season he's done well he's stayed healthy but they need to keep him healthy and i think that running the ball i agree can do that they need to be able to optimize their run game to be able to beat down you know worn down defenses like this and for the lengthy games for tougher games i definitely think that this is something that they can attack and use as a weak point in their scheming, which I'm sure they have. Baltimore's offense definitely is going to look a lot different without Lamar Jackson. We are a little bit familiar with Tyler Huntley, but you know, just following around the league, we've watched what he can do. We can see it. In terms of expecting Sunday's quarterback decision to be a game time decision, which is what it looks like it's going to be, he said he's just got to be ready to play Sunday if that is the case and so looking at the scouting report for him 143 yards and three touchdowns so far hasn't thrown a pick yet and just in terms of his stats altogether there you can also see 64 rushing yards so he is a little bit mobile as well a very similar player I wouldn't put him at the caliber that Lamar Jackson is so you can take advantage in that scheme but in terms of a player who is still mobile Tyler Huntley does have some legs and he can he can attack you in that way so who would worry Cincinnati more do you think Lamar Jackson playing hurt would worry them or Tyler Huntley starting i'm very curious on this one what you guys think would you rather them play Lamar hurt or Tyler Huntley starting because you're getting a healthy player on one hand who hasn't looked too bad hasn't thrown a pick up to this point can also hurt you with his legs or Lamar who's a better quarterback overall but is going to be more limited in mobility and you know maybe some torque on the throw personally I don't want to see anyone get more hurt regardless a divisional opponent or not so I would say probably if I was the Ravens I would err on the side of caution and let Tyler Huntley start in this one I think the Bengals defense has proved that they are still exploitable in some areas I think that the injuries definitely helped them out in this case and they can look to uh really really have a better game in this one and maybe take advantage of those injuries that the Ravens are suffering so let me know what you guys think down in the comments below and thank you guys for joining us here today on Bengals Digest