A little perspective

[Joelist]

All that happened today was that the tiny glimmer of hope that the Bengals might actually be for real and that the fans would finally get something good for their longsuffering support of this franchise went back to its usual state of an almost cold ember. A legit team finds a way to win ESPECIALLY when a lesser team is bringing it. Instead they lost in the worst way possible; choking away an 11 point lead and giving up record setting offensive numbers to a first time starter who clearly had no deep ball - the "defense" got beat by the same small set of plays over and over and over.

It being one game in a season doesn't matter. This franchise doesn't have the history of success to lean back on when things don't go right. They can't say R E L A X like Aaron Rodgers because they haven't EARNED the right to. When they can point to Lombardi's on the shelf at PBS then they can do the "it's just one game" bit. Until then EVERY game is critical and they need to be 100% in the game and on the mark every play. Hope they enjoy coming home and having PBS filled with more Browns fans than Bengal fans - any chance they had of really getting their fans to support them went up in smoke.