Is the AFCN going to be weak in 2016?

[Brownshoe]

(06-24-2016, 09:51 AM)PDub80 Wrote: Haters gonna hate....

But homers gonna home.

FYI, you fall into the latter. Please note your mentioning of the Broncos not having Miller while ignoring he loss of Eifert & Burfict for the Bengals.

The Bengals are due for a bad season and/or the injury bug to bite. Marvin Lewis is due to turn back into Marvin Lewis. The deck is stacked against them
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- Every one of the Bengals toughest games except for maybe 1 or 2 are on the road. They open at the Jets on 9/11. Tough one for sure.

- They lose a home game to London.

- They have plenty of prime time action... where AD & ML still tend to crap themselves (see 6 points at home on MNF against the Texans last season in a game where they would have clinched #1 seed in AFC).

- New coaches or coaches changing positions.

- Lost key vets at key positions.

- Guys showing up fat.

- Key guy already injured (Eifert) and expected to miss start of season.

It's the perfect storm for 7-9 or 6-10. They are due and the variables all have the Bengals stock pointing down in the wins column.

And you must be the former

You don't know if Eifert will miss any games, plus the Broncos have Sanchez as their QB, and their defense will be the only good thing about their team. Losing Von Miller will be an enormous blow to their defense. They will still have a good defense, but no where even close to the way it was last year.

Don't you say that we are due for a bad year every season? The injury bug has hit us constantly, so I don't know where you get that one at. Last year was the only year we didn't have major injuries until Dalton got hurt.

Just because we play the Jets on 9/11 doesn't mean anything. It's not like "Oh, it's 9/11! We normally don't play our best, but we have to today!". Dalton has owned the Jets ever since he's been in the league.

The loss of Hue Jackson won't be as big as everyone thinks. Dalton was mostly in charge of that offense last season. Every other play he did an audible, where he had the whole playbook to audible too. There's no way in hell Zampese will take that away from Dalton.

We lost one key vet. That was Marvin Jones. We replaced him with LaFell, who has been more productive and durable throughout his career.

Guys show up fat every season, whats new?

Every year you act like we are going to go below .500, and every year you are wrong.