Marvin Lewis: "I just told our football team in there, I’m disappointed in a couple of areas. We’ve got an opportunity to stop and get the ball back and we didn’t do it. Offensively we didn’t do anything good on third down. We didn’t run the football effectively enough. The two explosive plays we gave up seemed to be the difference in the game until that last drive."

I asked him why they didn't challenge Chris Perry's fumble late in the second quarter and he didn't like the question: "It was a fumble. It doesn’t matter if I considered it or not. A fumble’s a fumble. There’s no question the ball was out. They stripped the ball when he was up in the air."

On the offensive line: "We've got to stay on and keep chiseling. We're half a guy away. At times, we had some good runs in there today. Other times, we didn't identify very good, and they were able to get a guy running."

T.J. Houshmandzadeh said it best: "We sucked. Basically," Houshmandzadeh said before elaborating, "Everybody on offense that got a chance to play, what was it? 13, 14 of us? We just suck on offense right now. It’s terrible. We can’t move the ball. We can’t get a first down. We can’t run, we can’t throw. We just didn’t play good on offense, that’s the bottom line. The defense played great and we didn’t play good."

Also from T.J.: "If they let us bet, I probably would’ve bet a lot money that we’d win the game."

I asked him if he thought the missing time in preseason had something to do with it and he didn't like that question, "No. You guys can write it if you want, but I don’t think so."

And on the defense: "As much as you guys like to talk about the defense, I thought they played great today and we didn’t help them out."

On the interception: "I came off the ball, and I think it was Bart Scott. He just kinda bodied me up a little bit and I was stumbling out of my break and the ball got there and hit off my shoulder pad, Ed Reed hit me and it was intercepted. Again, it just goes back to us offensively not playing well. I’m on the offense, so obviously I’m part of the equation of not playing well."

Chris Perry on the 4th&1: "I’m supposed to make that. There’s nothing else to say other than I’m supposed to make that play."

He was asked several other questions about the line, and each time he took the blame: "That’s on me, I’m supposed to make those yards, that’s what I’m here for. It’s the spot I wanted to be in, this is the spot I have. You can’t put that on anything else other than me. ... I’m supposed to make them miss. We’re getting paid to play this game, we’re good at what we do. And I should have been better today."

Johnathan Joseph on his TD: "I just happened to be the first person there, scoop it and score."

Domata Peko: "That’s just smash-mouth football. You give them an inch, they’re going to take it."

Bobbie Williams: "It’s depressing. We pride ourselves as an offensive line, I know as an offensive lineman we can make that and execute better."

"Today we got outplayed as a team. Defense did a hell of a job, offense we struggled. We will. Today, it hurts because we had opportunities out there. As an offensive player, we didn’t execute to our fullest and it came back to bite us."

Williams was asked about Willie Anderson: "It was good to see him."

That was followed up by whether the Bengals could have used Anderson: "I’ll take the guys we have on the offensive line. I loved Willie when he was here. But he’s a Raven, at the end of the game, he was celebrating. That’s just a fact of life. We must move on and get on with the season. It was nice to have Willie a part of us and now he’s not. We have to find a way to make it work and we will."

"We have to execute better as an offensive unit and that’s a bottom line."

Carson Palmer: "We got beat, we got outplayed. It was just an ugly game offensively. When you score three points offensively, it’s never good. Our three points were on a two-minute drive. We didn’t have a drive where we physically beat them up front and moved the ball and and kept moving the chains. It’s a sick feeling, it’s going to feel even sicker when we watch the film."

On the fourth-down attempts: "We had two big fourth downs, you feel like that’s our bread and butter. We’ve got big, physical offensive linemen and they did a good job of pinching the gaps and hitting us in the backfield. That feels like a nine out of 10 times it goes our way. But they did a good job of shooting the gaps and getting a guy in on Chris and then Jarrett Johnson made an unbelievable play on the fourth-and-two quick shovel play. ... He looked like he knew it was coming, he played it like he knew it was coming. He went straight for the tailback and normally that guy is a lot further outside."

"It’s not demoralizing, it’s disappointing and frustrating. You’ve got to move on."

Chad Ocho Cinco: "They just beat us in the fundamentals of football. We didn't block well, we as a team didn't run well, receiving corps we didn't do our part. We just got beat."

On missing the preseason: "We don't play much in the preseason any way. We get two or three series. It is what it is. We have to understand that we are playing the best defense in the NFL.They are very confusing. The things they do out there are very exotic. On film, they had new things planned for us today. Obviously, we weren't able to see some of the stuff."

He was asked if they used him enough: "Based on what Baltimore did, they weren't going to allow me to catch anything. They did the same ... if we were going to win or compete in this game it was going to be through the running game. It would have to be through the tight ends. That's my take on what I saw through the entire four quarters. They didn't let up on me and they didn't let up on T.J.I guess we had to win in other areas. We wanted to establish the run, and I'm not sure we did that too well. ... I don't know what Rex Ryan, the d-coordinator, two thumbs up to him for what they did today, and I told him after the game. What they did today was unbelievable."

BALTIMORE -- OK, here you go... the easy jokes.

Welcome back Bungles!

Get scouting the first pick in the draft... oh, wait. We'll just see him on TV.

The Bengals won the coin toss and deferred to 2009.

Kyle Larson, Bengals 2008 MVP

Forget the 1972 Dolphins' perfect record, we want the 2007 Dolphins' record!

When does the Reds' season begin again?

Fire Mike Brown!

Matador is now a position on the Bengals' offensive line

The Bengals have changed their name to Cero y Dieciseis

Feel free to add your own...

BALTIMORE -- Just got the note that Joe Flacco's longest run in college was 25 yards against JMU -- and that wasn't for a TD.

This is awful.

Last time out for the Ravens. 12:40. Somehow, I don't think that's gonna hurt them.

Jeanty forces a fumble on Rice -- TOUCHDOWN Johnathan Joseph. 65 yard return

Ravens 17, Bengals 10

 This place has gone dead silent after Shayne Graham booms one through the back of the end zone.

 And then a false start. Could the Bungles be getting back into this. FLAG, hold on 71, pulled down Odom. They're imploding. The penalty is declined. It would have been 1st&22, now it's 2&15.

 Frostee Rucker catches McClain for a loss of 4. McClain down.

3&19.

 Returnable and Chatman dances around, gets 11.

Starting on the Bengal 42.

Ed Reed INT?

Big pass to Houshmandzadeh for 24.

Palmer had time, then hit and he missed T.J. and thrown to the ground by Ngata.

3&8 from the 32 with 7:42.

Watson doesn't get a good spot. Looks like Corey Ivy hurt for the Ravens.

4&1. You go or kick? Sneak Palmer? It's worked before. 7:26.

Not even close. Perry loss of 1. Ngata. Litterally.

 Ivey has a sprained ankle, his return is questionable. 3&1 -- Ravens get 10 with McClain.

 The Ravens gave the Bengals every possible chance in the world to get back into this game, and the Bengals just couldn't get back into it.

 Most entertaining part of the game. Peanut guy is juggling peanuts. After he finishes, he gets a clap from some lady, he then tosses her the peanuts. She asks how much, he holds up four fingers -- she tosses them back.

 Le'Ron McClain running right through the Bengals. He looks like Rudi Johnson used to look.

Stat of the game: Ravens 6-for-6 on 3rd & 1

And it's over. All of it. 17-10 final.

BALTIMORE -- Much of the same, really.

Just saw Johnathan Ogden in the press box. Huge man. The Bengals could use him.

Third turnover. Utecht gets the first down and then fumbles. Bobbie Williams kinda hit him in the chest and he fell down.

Delay.

Challenge. You challenge, but not the one last one? The only way you win is if you say he didn't have possession, but still you punt.

Looks to me like a clear catch, fumble, return.

The ruling is he never had possession. Time to punt. But better than giving them the ball at the 34.

 That's a big swing. A really nice punt by Larson, your 2008 Bengals MVP. Ball at the 7. 59-yard swing. That's good. But it's still Ravens ball.

Geathers gambled and just missed the pick 6, but Flacco completes it right over him and Le'Ron McClain makes the catch and picks up 11.

 This looks like the nail for the coffin, and the Ravens are only on the 31.

It's now 3&9 from the 49 -- if they convert this... well, I said it was over logn ago, so it's redundant that Flacco hits Mason for 10 to the Bengal 40.

There's a belief that the Reds always make first-time starting pitchers look good, perhaps the same could be said for the Bengals and first-time quarterbacks, starting with Brett Favre. There was also Eric Zeier and others. Can long-time Bengal watchers name all the others.

4&3 and they're going for it.

Nevermind. They wasted a timeout. They only have one left. Just take the delay and punt it.

 Really nice play by Brandon Johnson, the Ravens turn it over at their own 34. Stating field position has been no problem for the Bengals.

 * The Bengals have not played well enough to be only a touchdown down.

* David Jones will not return.

 On second down, it appared nobody had an idea of what was supposed to happen. THere you go, they passsed on the first two downs to the sidelines.

Finally picked up a blitz and 22 yards to Chad Whatever.

3&6 at the Ravens' 40. Needless to say, big play.

FLAG. Delay. Second delay on 3rd down, also had a 6 men on the line flag on 3rd.

Palmer rush to the 36 -- 9 yards.

4&2. Time out.

Back-to-back 4th down attempts by both teams.

Shotgun, shovel pass. No gain. Never had a shot.

Ravens ball.

Fullbacks aren't supposed to be geting yardage on cutbacks, yet La'Ron McClain is.

A "Let's Go Flacco" chant.

 * Dhani Jones taken to the locker room.

* Johnathan Joseph down.

* D. Jones went for an IV, he's expected to return.

* J. Joseph ran off the field under his own power.

* Really? A 38-yard touchdown run by Joe Flacco for a TD. Keith Rivers went too hard inside and slipped.

Willie Anderson getting handshakes from his new teammates.

One play left this quarter. Palmer and Houshmandzadeh like falling off a bike. It was so quick, they get another play.

Palmer's pass deflected by Ngata. So, the three part of the three-and-out in the last 10 seconds of the quarter. That's a new craptastic low.

Palmer got lucky, throwing it right at Terrell Suggs, who dropped it. End of the quarter.