The Cincinnati Bengals and Miami Dolphins opened Week 4 on Thursday night. In a game that Cincinnati Bengals hosted, the final score was 27-15 in favor of the Bengals. The result ends Miami's winning streak to open the season as they fell to 3-1. Meanwhile, the Bengals will be feeling optimistic about their own chances this season as they improved to 2-2.
Game could live in infamy
The Thursday night game could live in infamy. Tua Tagovailoa, Miami's star quarterback, suffered what looked to be a dangerous injury. Social media was calling for blood with the Miami Dolphins management for letting the young QB play. "Prayers for Tua" dominated the keywords on Twitter during the game. It will be a lasting memory of the contest.
When Tua exited the game, Teddy Bridgewater entered. As for as backup quarterbacks go, he is not unaccustomed to playing time. He orchestrated a touchdown march but Miami barely scored in the second half. He did post an 80.2 QBR and a passer rating of 84.1 so Miami is in competent hands should Tagovailoa miss any action.
Betting recap: Miami vs Cincinnati
We had four recommendations for this game. The first was early in the week when we backed Miami. However, we reverted that tip back to "rough draft" status after all the reports of injured Miami players started to surface. Instead, we went sort of 'agnostic' on the moneyline and spread but offered an OVER/UNDER tip for a popular-market recommendation.
We also had two prop bets and went 3-0 overall, unless you count the article that we unpublished. In that case, we went 3-1....unless you give us credit for unpublishing an article that contained a losing tip. Then we went 4-1. Regardless, "3-0 after the injury reports" is an accurate statement.
For a betting prop with a Miami player, we favored placekicker Jason Sanders to score OVER 6.5 points in the contest. With a missed field goal and a missed extra point, he still scored 9 points so that was a winner.
For a betting prop with a Cincinnati player, we thought that Joe Mixon would rush for UNDER 65.5 yards in the game. This one was close but Mixon only managed 61 yards in the contest, so that was a winner.
For OVER/UNDER, we thought that the game would be low scoring. We called UNDER on total points of 47.0 with Unibet and 42 were scored for a winning bet.
