01-14-2016, 03:05 PM
(01-14-2016, 02:19 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: It's really not hard to understand when you use context. The primary goal of all 32 teams is to win a championship. If your team isn't winning championships, you at least want to see progress toward that goal. This team has won 4 division titles and made 7 playoff trips since 2005, yet has never progressed past the WC round. There is no progress. It feels like wasted talent and opportunities. This team is so talented that anything less than playoff win(s) will be viewed as failure. Not only by Bengals fans, but by our coaches, players and the local and national media.
Do you really view this season as a success? If so, you must put more emphasis on the regular season and almost no emphasis on the post season.
This is silly and you don't honestly believe this. You're saying it out of frustration. This fan base would've been on cloud nine if we'd won on Saturday. If we won a Super Bowl, it'd cure a lot of frustration for a long time. I have no doubt about that.
I agree with you. The season is not a failure, but is also not a success. With greater accomplishment comes greater expectations. My level of excitement was tempered after the Dalton injury, but losing the playoff game in the fashion they did really stung... and it is going to sting for quite some time.
I will tell you this. I became a fan of the team in the late 1980's (first live game was Super Bowl XXIII). So the three best Bengal teams I have seen all ended their season in some form of "tragedy". The Stanley Wilson Super Bowl debacle, Palmer going down in 2005, and Andy being hurt this year. Really sucks!
