Temporary Cleveland and Buffalo Fans?

[hollodero]

(09-28-2017, 02:47 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: Maybe it's the fact that I'm sitting here waiting on a routine blood test after fasting for fifteen hours but I'm wondering if those of us in Bengaldom should -- temporarily of course -- become Browns fans this weekend and Bills fans next weekend.  

NO. No way. I want the Bengals to be 2-3 after these two games. I know the concept of losing or even tanking isn't that far away for an american sports mind, given no one relegates and doing poorly actually gets rewarded with a high draft pick. A concept I still consider fundamentally flawed, for the exact reason that it makes people want their team to lose. This is weird. I refuse to want my team to lose.

The idea that the players might want or even should play against their coaches, or that they honestly just flop and it's a good thing if they do doesn't compute with me. I root for my team to win, I root for the coaching getting stuff fixed and for Lazor to be a progidy. And if they don't and it only gets worse in the next games, I won't be happy about it. Why should I hope for something that makes me unhappy? 

For a mid-season coaching change for a 0-5 team? What would that accomplish, really. No playoffs this season, and what a second bad season would do to the players isn't worth the chance the new coaches do way better with guys like Ogbuehi. I still hope for a decent season, and as long as it's somewhat possible I still root for the playoffs. Stranger things have happened.