I am Loving the Speed

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(06-13-2017, 08:28 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I'm going to watch all the games and cheer for the team regardless if they are good or not. I was still a fan regardless of Akili Smith or Ryan Fizpatrick being the starter, so my "true fan" status has been well paid off.

I just know two years ago the Colts tried this exact same approach. Stock up on offensive talent at the skill positions... Luck, Gore, Hilton, A Johnson, Fleener, Allen, use a first round pick on an undersized WR who was the fastest in their draft in Dorsett... and think that the skill positions will make up for having a putrid OL.

Luck ended up with a hurt right shoulder, a hurt ankle, lacerated kidney, and torn abdominal muscle. He had never missed a game prior, but played only 7 games that year. His hasn't really been truly healthy since then, and he had to get surgery on his throwing shoulder, traced back to the injury in the 2015 season. Luck still hasn't resumed throwing yet.

They call it a copycat league, but it is generally implied you are supposed to copy the good things, not the stupid things.

I know you will watch the games.  You're not a bandwagoner.  And, I am not claiming that the Bengals' Oline will definitely be good.  Just that there are enough differences between the last two years to at least think this time they might be better than they were last year.  But, there's a difference in not being optimistic, because you don't know yet vs. claiming ahead of time that the Bengals Oline will be terrible.  We don't know if the Bengals' line will fail just yet.  But most of those things are arguable.  The one thing which doesn't make sense is talking about how the Bengals Oline will suck in a thread about speed being added to the WR, LB, ST units.  Sure if this was a thread about how the Bengals will do overall, then yes.  I also didn't intend for you to think I was stating you were not a "true fan".  My use of "bandwagon" (probably wrongly used) was to mean that if the Bengals line holds up, anyone who was strongly voicing their opinions about the Oline being the demise of this team will suddenly forget that they were wrongly belittling the Bengals chances for the year and probably will not acknowledge their questionable "expertise".