01-02-2016, 12:16 PM
(01-02-2016, 02:00 AM)Essex Johnson Wrote: You are totally missing it.. I can probably pick every team with a winning record and each year they lose to someone with a losing record.. You are focused on one week for one game.. lets focus on 16 games... For example the Bengals probably favored so far in 11 games .. so they won 8 out of 10 of those games .. 80 percent winning.
Actually without going back and looking at all the games the last 5 years.. the Bengals have done a pretty good job of being teams they are favored against over most of the other teams in the league
How am I totally missing it? The Bengals loss to the Texans this season was BAD, plain and simple. I'm not saying good teams can't lose to bad teams, I'm saying the Bengals absolutely chocked in that game because we played bad not because the Texans were good. People want to say we lost to the Texans because "They are a playoff team" when that didn't even matter at that point because it was only week 10, nor does it matter now.
The Bengals were 8-0 and the Texans were 3-5. We came into the game averaging 28 points a game, which is equivalent to 4 touchdowns a game. The Texans came into the game with opposing teams scoring an average of 25 points a game on them, which is equivalent to at least three touchdowns a game. We were at home, they were not. We were ranked 2nd in Power Rankings that week, they were ranked 27th. They lost their starting quarterback in the 3rd quarter, we had ours the entire game. They came into the game with the worst red zone defense in the AFC and somehow all we scored were two field goals on them. If you can't see how that was a bad loss I don't know what to tell you. Oh and I know I already said it, but I'll say it again. We were at home.
