ESPN Says We're Still Alive And My Reasons For Hope!

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(09-23-2022, 03:50 PM)kevin Wrote: You are on it Tecmo.  If Bengals WIN Sunday, their play-off hopes stay very much alive.  If Bengals LOSE Sunday, as John Madden and so many TV Announcers always said, no team ever goes play-offs starting 0-3.   You are correct that those who do early Draft Day Predictions before October can fly into action if Bengals fall to 0-3. 

It's very simple.  At The New York Jets is a Play-Off Game coming in September for Bengals.  WIN and they stay in play-off hunt.  LOSE and stick a fork in Bengals, they are done.  The Fat Lady will sing early in September on Bengals season if they LOSE Sunday.  Teams that start 0-3 do not go play-offs.  This would be true of Bengals at 0-3 with too many teams on schedule such as Bills, Chiefs, Ravens, Steelers, Browns and others to add losses to the early 3 losses Bengals will have taken against teams they should have beat.  Add that in, that if you don't beat the teams you are suppose to beat, you are doomed.  Bengals played 2 new quarterbacks and lost, and Jets are not the Bills or The Chiefs.   

IF Bengals start 0-3, the Bengals really are THAT BAD, because you have to look to the quarterbacks and teams they are losing to. These are NOT the best quarterbacks in The NFL that Bengals have been losing to, although Apple makes them look like Tom Brady.  These QBs have been doing one thing smart, just throw to whoever Apple is covering. 

What if they beat the Jets then lose to the Dolphins?

Is that better than losing to the Jets and beating the Dolphins?

1-3 is 1-3.