Matter Of Losing Focus: Cincinnati's Fourth Quarter Errors Leads To Atlanta Win

The truth is, Cincinnati's storyline in Atlanta goes like this. Defense crashes, offense burns in the first half. Roddy White leads an Atlanta Falcons offense that recorded 299 yards and three touchdowns in the first half. Cincinnati's offense wasn't so much repulsive, as it was ineffective. During three of the team's five offensive possessions, Cincinnati recorded eight plays or more in the first half. Once they went three-and-out and during Cincinnati's opening possession in the game, they picked up a first down before a bad pass to Chad Ochocinco, who turned at the first down marker with Palmer throwing as if Chad would hook out, led to a punt. Yet, the offense was ineffective, unable to sustain a drive that led to a touchdown.(nfl jerseys cheap) Basically the same story we've written and recited all season. Copy and paste, the champions against carpel tunnel syndrome.

Cincinnati comes out of the lockerroom in the second half with dejected fans mockingly cheering the team while shoving aside spent Cheetos and warm beer. Text messages crush the limited wireless networks around Cincinnati, ranging from sobbing tears of the good old days when Atlanta last put on a display against the Bengals at the Georgia Dome, in which Cincinnati lost 30-3 during ESPN's Sunday Night Football. I still remember all three announcers laughing at Oliver Gibson's roughing the quarterback foul as if we're the type of kids that try so hard to do it right, only to get it wrong again.(eagles jersey) I raise my right fist into the air, shaking it like a seizure yelling, "Paul McGuire, you will rue the day..."

Mind you, this is about the time I'm catch myself laughing when the Bengals were messing up late in the first half. No, no, I'm not laughing like a Steelers fan does when accidentally stepping on a Twinkie and giggling to himself, "I made a messy." It's the type of laugh where you believe what you're seeing is real. Like the Steelers fan accidentally stepping on a Twinkie and giggling to himself, "I make a messy."

At one point, losing 24-3, I sneezed. Then Cincinnati was leading by a point which began with a 33-yard Mike Nugent field goal on the opening drive of the second half. After a first down, Atlanta finishes the drive after failing to pick up a first down and punting. Carson Palmer completes five straight passes for 74 yards before Andre Smith's false start puts Cincinnati on Atlanta's 19-yard line.(philadelphia eagles jersey) The drive ended with a touchdown pass to Terrell Owens to cut Cincinnati's deficit to 11 points.