(01-09-2024, 10:54 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Please can the football gods smile on us next season and Joe Burrow have a full pre-season and we play the Oline a bit there. And more importantly can Joe stay healthy all season? Aren't we due?? I can't handle the drama anymore haha.

(01-09-2024, 02:12 PM)TecmoBengals Wrote: I have sought favor with the Football Gods every season since Boomer and the gang lost the Super Bowl. I hope they do smile upon the Bengals soon.

How do we also remove the curse of Bo Jackson? I thought having his nephew on the team was a good start!

(01-09-2024, 02:27 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: I thought that we killed the curse of Bo, when we beat the Raiders in the WC round in 2021?

(01-09-2024, 02:32 PM)TecmoBengals Wrote: I probably agreed with such sentiment in the moment but I suppose my desire for a Super Bowl victory clouds the memory.

(01-09-2024, 02:40 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: See, after losing two SBs to the 49ers, I always attributed that to the curse of Bill Walsh.  But after losing to LA, I'm not sure what to attribute the misfortune to.

(01-09-2024, 02:44 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: The California curse ??

(01-09-2024, 10:54 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Well, it's over, and what a roller coaster ride it was. I remember back in pre-season and everyone was pumped, super Bowl run baby!!

And then the wheels started coming off the bus. Joe Burrow went down in camp and we sucked the first 4 games stumbling into a 1-3 record. How we beat LA ??? Hope was gone.

Then Joe got better and we ripped off 4 wins in a row including beating a decent Seahawks team and the good Bills and 49ers team, he's back. The playoffs and SB seemed back on the table.

Then we lost to a decent Texans team (CJ Stroud seems to be the real deal) and a bit of air came out of our sails. Then the boom was lowered again in the Ravens game, Joe's wrist and all hope was lost.....again. The Steelers game kinda confirmed that Jake Browning was taking us nowhere and I was calling it a season.

To the tune of Rocky, the light came back on!! Browning looked like the 2nd coming of Montana and we reeled off 3 wins in a row. Hope was restored.

The 2nd Steelers game brought us back to reality and pretty much the season was over in one foul swoop.

Please can the football gods smile on us next season and Joe Burrow have a full pre-season and we play the Oline a bit there. And more importantly can Joe stay healthy all season? Aren't we due?? I can't handle the drama anymore haha.

(01-09-2024, 07:03 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: I see it has glass half full, at this point im not sure we can trust Burrow with his health and with this injury how it might impact his throwing, but we also found out that Browning can play in this league.  Actually his stats over the last 6 games were the best of any starting QB according to Lapham... so we are not a ship adrift if Burrow goes down or has to sit a few games at start of season.  We need to improve in some areas regardless who is QB and if it is Browning maybe with that improvement we have a better chance to win games if he needs to take over

(01-10-2024, 10:24 AM)Sled21 Wrote: I think this narrative is being way overplayed. Burrow had his knee shredded on a play that would do the same thing to any QB.  The same can be said of his wrist injury. Appendicitis is non-football related and was just bad timing. The only injury he has had that would make me think there was anything physiologically making him injury prone would be the non-contact calf strain. So that's 1. The other 2 are just football.

(01-10-2024, 11:21 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Yup

I'm not buying in to the Burrow is a piece of glass mantra a few are pushing. Like you say the knee was just a freak play.

(01-10-2024, 10:24 AM)Sled21 Wrote: I think this narrative is being way overplayed. Burrow had his knee shredded on a play that would do the same thing to any QB.  The same can be said of his wrist injury. Appendicitis is non-football related and was just bad timing. The only injury he has had that would make me think there was anything physiologically making him injury prone would be the non-contact calf strain. So that's 1. The other 2 are just football.

(01-10-2024, 01:23 PM)ochocincos Wrote: No more roller coasters, just pure domination or disaster please.
I don't like up and down seasons, ultimately finishing middle of the pack.

(01-10-2024, 02:43 PM)TecmoBengals Wrote: No! I do not want the 1990s Bengals back, ever. 

(01-10-2024, 03:04 PM)ochocincos Wrote: I dunno, it was pretty nice in 2019 and 2020 knowing pretty much by early November that the Bengals weren't going to do anything, so I could have those 3 hours every week available to do other things.

(01-09-2024, 10:54 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Well, it's over, and what a roller coaster ride it was. I remember back in pre-season and everyone was pumped, super Bowl run baby!!

And then the wheels started coming off the bus. Joe Burrow went down in camp and we sucked the first 4 games stumbling into a 1-3 record. How we beat LA ??? Hope was gone.

Then Joe got better and we ripped off 4 wins in a row including beating a decent Seahawks team and the good Bills and 49ers team, he's back. The playoffs and SB seemed back on the table.

Then we lost to a decent Texans team (CJ Stroud seems to be the real deal) and a bit of air came out of our sails. Then the boom was lowered again in the Ravens game, Joe's wrist and all hope was lost.....again. The Steelers game kinda confirmed that Jake Browning was taking us nowhere and I was calling it a season.

To the tune of Rocky, the light came back on!! Browning looked like the 2nd coming of Montana and we reeled off 3 wins in a row. Hope was restored.

The 2nd Steelers game brought us back to reality and pretty much the season was over in one foul swoop.

Please can the football gods smile on us next season and Joe Burrow have a full pre-season and we play the Oline a bit there. And more importantly can Joe stay healthy all season? Aren't we due?? I can't handle the drama anymore haha.

(01-10-2024, 01:07 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: Still injuries , and 2 season ending, I think some underplay  it because it's Burrow, eifert after 4 seasons we said injury prone, many people call Higgins injury prone, Andre Smith same tag . As for wrist , it is a concern being throwing hand.