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KEY MATCHUPS
DECEMBER 9, 2007
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The Guru has taken an early Christmas hiatus from the Bengals.com roundtable to the French Riviera, but he leaves it in the capable hands of The Chief, a personnel director not in the Bengals division who gives the nod to the home team in a tossup game between two preseason heavyweights that took too many body shots. A tossup game, that it is, until it was reported Friday that Rams quarterback Marc Bulger won't play, leaving it in the inexperienced hands of Brock Berlin. Because with Bulger, the Chief saw one of the NFL's most feared offenses hitting stride with three wins in the last four games after the offensive line emerged from an injury devastation that mirrored what happened to the Bengals linebackers. "Now that the Rams (3-9) are sort of healthy on offense, they can score just as many points as the Bengals (4-8) can," The Chief says. "At the beginning of the season, I thought they were going to be a team that was going to be reckoned with, and that's two years in a row they haven't had all their weapons. With the Rams banged up in the secondary, the Bengals ought to be able to put up some points." Berlin has never taken an NFL snap and any No. 3 QB always conjures up memories of Jeff Blake. Blake, the Bengals No. 3 QB one week, the starter the next, a Pro Bowler the next season, set the bar for unkowns but he had thrown 10 NFL passes before he got the call.
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