2 stats for why 2024 is huge for the Bengals

[*jason*]

(04-22-2024, 01:24 PM)CJD Wrote: Stats like this are fascinating because humans, by nature, try to look for patterns in life. So it makes sense that people could see that stat and decide that it has some sort of causal link to whether or not the Bengals will ever get the Super Bowl again.

But it's completely nonsensical. There's nothing about losing a Super Bowl by 3 points that could possibly cause that player to never reach the Super Bowl ever again. It's pattern seeking correlation brought on almost entirely by superstition.

Burrow may or may not ever play in a Super Bowl again.

But it will have nothing to do with the fact that he lost the first Super Bowl he appeared in.

It's just extremely hard to even get to a Super Bowl once let alone twice. Not winning in 2021 really hurts.