Bengals snap count takeaways vs. Saints: Cincinnati couldn’t keep up with New Orleans

Photo by John Grieshop/Getty ImagesThe Bengals got whooped on Sunday, there is no way around that. Injuries no doubt played a slight part, but Cincinnati is dealing with enough issues that a 51-14 loss to the Saints isn’t anything to be brushed off. Some of the more telling answers to the game lie in the game’s snap counts.

Here are the snap count takeaways:

75 snaps to 43. That was how many snaps the Saints had compared to the Bengals. The fact that Cincinnati had the ball for that many plays was a bit surprising when it seemed as if New Orleans had the ball for almost the entire game. The Saints did in fact have the ball for just over 39 minutes, so that actually is kind of true. It is hard…