Bengals over/under odds

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(06-29-2021, 11:29 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: We won 4 games (and tied 1) last year with:

- a worse oline
- worse weapons
- worse defense
- Burrow out for 6.5 games
- Worse (on paper) coaching

Nobody is saying that we're winning 13 and going for the SB, but to say we're not going to improve 2 games with the improvements/draft that we made/had?

You guys are nuts and beyond-negative (natch). I would say moronic and/or idiotic, but that's rude and I won't go that far.

With you 100%, and as hard for it is for people to grasp, that number (6.5) isn't their prediction of the Bengals season.  It is what they project will get even money on both sides.  For that reason, I am surprised it isn't even lower.  If you factor the number of actual Bengal fans that know the team and then that number drops even further when you whittle down to how many of that group places bets.  

There are a ton of folks out there that maybe only saw the Bengals early in the season when their offensive line was in shambles, and saw the defense stop virtually no one.  That is why I see the number as low, but I am actually surprised it is as high as 6.5 given how many are still likely to take the under.  Maybe some high-dollar sharps threw down a lot on the Bengals because they actually do research and know what you illustrated. 

I don't know.  As excited as I am for the upcoming season, I have more than a few concerns:

Division is LOADED
I have NO IDEA what the CBs are going to look like.  
If Germaine Pratt and Logan Wilson don't take a step, it won't matter what the CBs and DL look like. 
Depth at OT very thin.
Coaching, in general.

My prediction is 10 wins, but really any win total shouldn't surprise anyone because we really have no idea what they will look like.