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firstdayfan

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For Jimmy's first start to be considered a success? I think a win is a little unrealistic at this point but I feel like if he protects the ball, moves the offense, and completes a decent percentage of his passes then that will be fine in my book. I really think we have to keep our expectations in check. There will be a lot of pressure on him from the bengals defense and I can see a lot of check downs coming. I'm just looking for him to play decent and the offense as a whole to make strides in the right direction.

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>50% completion

More TDs than turnovers.

Showing that he progresses through reads and checks down as appropriate.

Showing a modicum of pocket awareness and ability to throw to his hot read.

A win would be really nice as well but I'm not banking on it.

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A win is definately a possibility but for success be able to convert 3rd downs move the team up the field and protect the ball we have to believe he will throw some picks because the bengals have a top 3 cb tandem and a stout d but no high school mistakes will b a succes for me. BECAUSE we dont have recieving options outside of smith to really help a young new qb trying to get acclimated

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Two PASSING touchdowns by guys not named Steve Smith would be great. Or at least one of the two by a guy not named Smith.

Outscoring T.O and Ochocinco.....AMAZING!

I'd go with this one. If he can lead us to two scores (run or pass) that aren't from some amazing play by Smith, then I would feel better about the offense.

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I don't see how a win is unrealistic.

That's because you think Jimmy is all this team needs. You sound just like those guys that were saying the same thing about Smith in the beginning. ONE GUY, I don't care how good he is cannot win a game in the NFL.

It's A TEAM SPORT folks. Stop putting all your hopes on ONE guy. It doesn't work that way.

We need to fix a lot of mistakes for Clausen to have a realistic shot. We need receivers to catch balls, the O-line to protect him and give your running game a chance, we need the coach to continue to make agressive calls like he did yesterday, we need the OC to STOP calling plays like he did two weeks in a row, we need our defense to tackle, and we need our secondary to contain T.O and Ochocinco which I hate to say it, are a much bigger thread than Steve and "insert whoever maybe could possibly if we pray hard enough show up on Sunday", we need Lloyd to kick good, we need our special teams to give us great field position, we need no pics and no turn overs and we need our defense to continue doing the good things they did in the preason.

On top of that.....we need no one else to get hurt.

That's why it can be considered a bit unrealistic but certainly not impossible or out of the question.

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