1988 Bengals 49 - 1973 Rams 0

Holy Crap. This wasn't even fair. This Bengals offense is about as good as there is, and early 70's teams cannot play from behind, and if they get no breaks and everything works as planned for the 88 Bengals you get results like this. The 73 Rams might as well have been the 2012 Chiefs. The Bengals pass defense is pretty bad, but it just didn't matter. the Rams slink off in shame.

1973 Los Angeles 0, 1988 Cincinnati 49
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	OT	Total
1973 Los Angeles	0	0	0	0	0	0
1988 Cincinnati	14	14	7	14	0	49

Scoring Plays
Qtr	Clock	Poss	Scoring Description(Extra Point)	Score
1	10:07	1988 Cincinnati	T.McGee 13 yd. pass from B.Esiason (J.Breech kick)	7-0 CNA
1	3:26	1988 Cincinnati	S.Wilson 5 yd. run (J.Breech kick)	14-0 CNA
2	13:09	1988 Cincinnati	I.Woods 1 yd. run (J.Breech kick)	21-0 CNA
2	0:45	1988 Cincinnati	T.McGee 4 yd. pass from B.Esiason (J.Breech kick)	28-0 CNA
3	7:52	1988 Cincinnati	J.Brooks 2 yd. run (J.Breech kick)	35-0 CNA
4	13:19	1988 Cincinnati	J.Brooks 36 yd. run (J.Breech kick)	42-0 CNA
4	8:52	1988 Cincinnati	E.Brown 31 yd. pass from B.Esiason (J.Breech kick)	49-0 CNA

Team Statistics
	1973 Los Angeles	1988 Cincinnati
First Downs by Rush-Pass-Pen-Total	6-3-0-9	13-15-0-28
Third Down Efficiency	2-11-18%	11-16-69%
Fourth Down Efficiency	0-2-0%	1-1-100%
Red Zone Efficiency (pts-poss-pct)	0-7-0%	35-35-100%
Total Offense-Plays-Avg Yards Per Play	219-49-4.5	526-74-7.1
Total Net Yards Rushing	146	237
Total Rushes	35	48
Average Per Rush	4.2	4.9
Passes Completed/Attempted	5/13 (38.5%)	20/24 (83.3%)
Net Yards Passing	73	289
Avg Yards Per Pass	6.0	12.5
Sacked/Yards Lost	1/5	2/10
Punts/Average	5/52.4	3/38.3
Punts Received/Return Yardage	3/12	1/13
Kickoffs/Returns	4/104	0/0
Interceptions/Returns	0/0	1/29
Penalties/Yards	7/61	3/15
Total Fumbles/Fumbles Lost	2/1	1/1
Time of Possession	26 mins 20 secs	33 mins 40 secs
Average Drive Start	LAN 26	CNA 30

Passing Stats
	Att	Comp	Yds	Comp %	Yds/Att	TD	TD %	INT	INT %	Long	Sack	Rating
1973 Los Angeles
John Hadl	13	5	78	38.5	6.0	0	0	1	7.7	34	1/5	27.1
1988 Cincinnati
Boomer Esiason	20	18	284	90.0	14.2	3	15.0	0	0	60	2/10	158.3
Turk Schonert	4	2	15	50.0	3.8	0	0	0	0	9	0/0	59.4

Rushing Stats
	No	Yds	Avg	Long	TD	2 Pt Conv	Fumbles/Lost
1973 Los Angeles
Lawrence McCutcheon	13	53	4.1	18	0	0	0/0
Jim Bertelsen	7	34	4.9	18	0	0	1/0
Larry L. Smith	6	31	5.2	16	0	0	0/0
Tony Baker	6	5	0.8	7	0	0	0/0
Les Josephson	3	23	7.7	12	0	0	0/0
1988 Cincinnati
James Brooks	17	104	6.1	36	2	0	0/0
Ickey Woods	14	70	5.0	18	1	0	1/1
Stanley Wilson	12	39	3.3	8	1	0	0/0
Boomer Esiason	4	23	5.8	15	0	0	0/0
Stanford Jennings	1	1	1.0	1	0	0	0/0

Receiving Stats
	No	Yds	Avg	Long	TD	2 Pt Conv
1973 Los Angeles
Larry L. Smith	2	9	4.5	8	0	0
Harold Jackson	1	20	20.0	20	0	0
Lawrence McCutcheon	1	15	15.0	15	0	0
Jack Snow	1	34	34.0	34	0	0
1988 Cincinnati
Tim McGee	7	78	11.1	28	2	0
Eddie Brown	4	131	32.8	60	1	0
Stanford Jennings	2	24	12.0	15	0	0
Cris Collinsworth	2	26	13.0	15	0	0
James Brooks	2	4	2.0	8	0	0
Jim Riggs	1	16	16.0	16	0	0
Ira Hillary	1	6	6.0	6	0	0
Stanley Wilson	1	14	14.0	14	0	0

Field Goals
	1-19	20-29	30-39	40-49	50+	Totals	% Made
1973 Los Angeles
David Ray	0/0	0/0	0/1	0/0	0/1	0/2	0.0
1988 Cincinnati

Punting
	No	Avg	Net	Tb	Inside 20	Long	Blocked
1973 Los Angeles
Dave Chapple	5	52.4	41.8	2	0	59	0
1988 Cincinnati
Lee Johnson	3	38.3	34.3	0	0	40	0

Kickoff Returns
	No	Yds	Avg	Long	TD
1973 Los Angeles
Rob Scribner	2	56	28.0	29	0
Cullen Bryant	2	48	24.0	24	0
1988 Cincinnati

Punt Returns
	Ret	FC	Yds	Avg	Long	TD
1973 Los Angeles
Jim Bertelsen	2	0	11	5.5	14	0
Dave Elmendorf	1	0	1	1.0	1	0
1988 Cincinnati
Eddie Brown	1	1	13	13.0	13	0

Individual Defense
	Tackles	Sacks	Fum Rec
1973 Los Angeles
Hacksaw Reynolds	9	1	0
Jack Youngblood	8	1	0
Ken Geddes	8	0	0
Steve Preece	8	0	0
Eddie McMillan	7	0	0
Isiah Robertson	6	0	0
Dave Elmendorf	5	0	0
Merlin Olsen	4	0	1
Larry Brooks	4	0	0
Charlie Stukes	3	0	0
Fred Dryer	1	0	0
Charlie Cowan	0	0	1
1988 Cincinnati
Reggie Williams	7	0	0
Solomon Wilcots	4	0	0
Leon White	4	0	0
Tim Krumrie	4	0	0
Jim Skow	3	1	0
Eric Thomas	3	0	0
Lewis Billups	3	0	0
Joe Kelly	2	0	0
Carl Zander	2	0	0
David Fulcher	2	0	0
Jason Buck	2	0	0
Leo Barker	2	0	0
Rickey Dixon	2	0	0
Skip McLendon	1	0	0
Stanley Wilson	0	0	1

Interceptions
	No	Yds	Avg	Long	TD
1973 Los Angeles
1988 Cincinnati
David Fulcher	1	29	29.0	29	0

Game Story

Boomer Esiason was fantastic as Cincinnati pounded Los Angeles by the score of 49 to 0. Esiason threw for 284 yards and 3 touchdowns. James Brooks ran the ball 17 times for 104 yards scoring 2 times. It was a magnificent day for the Cincinnati defense, as they shutout the Los Angeles offense. They enjoyed success on third down, converting on 11 of 16 opportunities. Cincinnati controlled the action both on the ground and in the air. They out-ran Los Angeles 237 to 146 yards, and out-passed them 299 to 78 yards. They controlled the ball for 33:40. The fans were brought to their feet by a pass to Eddie Brown that went for 60 yards with 14:27 left in the 2nd quarter. Cincinnati got ahead early outscoring Los Angeles 14 to 0 in the first quarter.

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