12-25-2016, 09:59 AM
(12-25-2016, 01:46 AM)Stonyhands Wrote: The problem in Cincy is more than a kicker. It's a mindset. I'm glad Marvin's been able to pull this franchise out of the grave it saw in the 90's but he plays too conservatively with leads and when he does take risks they are are compounded with stupid decision after stupid decision. I can't help but think every time we're are driving to get the go ahead score all I am thinking about is we are going to screw this up. We play super conservative in field goal range. Why have we lost so many games off of missed field goals...2 reasons:
Our offense doesn't know how to play with a short field. This is due to an inexperienced play caller.
Our kicker sucked and we were too loyal to fix this issue back when the issues started...before the season.
This franchise will continue to be fail until a new coach comes in with experience with winning and the owner releases control to the coach so that he can purge all the coaching on this team.
Agreed. The team is mentally weak!
The kicker will miss an extra point. Remember when we needed a win in Denver to make the playoffs...and they botched the snap on the extra point?
Dalton will turn it over at a bad time.
There will be a costly fumble...ie Hill last year when they just had to run out the clock.
The defense will implode with penalties.
Or, the defense will be stopping them the entire game, then we take the lead and they give up a 3 play scoring drive like last night.
The team finds a way to lose. It's mental weakness...and it's been here since Marvin has.
