11-08-2021, 01:28 PM
(11-08-2021, 11:48 AM)Sled21 Wrote: I absolutely hated yesterday's blowout loss. I a starting to dislike Mayfield as much as I despise Fat Jen. Uncharacteristic game from Chase and Burrow. That said, let's put this season so far in a little perspective. Many people had the Bengals going 4-6 wins tops at the beginning of this season. Yet here we are at the bye, 9 games into the season and we already are sitting on 5 wins, with 8 games left to play. As for the rest of the division, both Cleveland and Baltimore were touted as legit Super Bowl contenders this year coming into the season. And as much as we covet Pissburgh's decline, everyone always says "can't count Pissburgh out", right?
So here we are with the AFCN all knotted up.
Ravens 6-2
Browns 5-4
Bengals 5-4
Pissburgh 4-3 (play the Bears tonight)
At the very worst we split with the Ravens and the Stealers. If they can pull things together and snatch a win at the dog pound we will split with Cleveland. (nobody thought we'd beat the Ravens at M&T)
So looking ahead... these are the Schedules.
Bengals
Bye
@Raiders
Steelers
Chargers
49ers
@Denver
Ravens
Chiefs
@Browns
Ravens
@Dolphins
@Bears
Browns
@Steelers
@Browns
Packers
@Bengals
Rams
Steelers
Browns
@Patriots
Lions
@Ravens
Bye
Ravens
Raiders
@Packers
@Stealers
Bengals
Stealers
Bears
Lions
@Chargers
@Bengals
Ravens
@Vikings
Titans
@Chiefs
Browns
@Ravens
Looking at the Division, the Bengals have 3 road games left, Ravens have 5, Browns have 4 and the Stealers have 5. After next Sunday the Bengals, Ravens and Stealers have already had their Bye week. I don't see any games the Bengals play that scream blatant loss or win. I can possibly see the Browns losing 6 or 7 more and can see the Stealers possibly losing 6-7 more. Unfortunately, I think the Ravens take the Division, but the Wild Card is all knotted up. If the Bengals can get out their funk, they are still right in the thick of things.
Sled, I respect your posts as I see you as very knowledgeable about this team.
I do have to disagree on the Browns losing 6 or 7 more. If they play like the way they ***** slapped the Bengals yesterday I can see them winning 6 or 7 games in the 2nd half of the season.
Everyone keeps saying in our losses but this is the best DL we've played. The Raiders have a great DL, so do 5 or 6 other teams on the 2nd half of our schedule. Goal #1 during this bye week better be how to shore up the holes in that offensive line.
Goal #2 should be how to shore up the wholes in that swish cheese defense. You have $200M invested in that side of the ball, so the talents there. Now you have to rely on Lou to fix whatever's messed up.
