We should be 4-0

[Shake n Blake]

(10-04-2017, 05:05 PM)Nately120 Wrote: That was a pleasant surprise.  If you add the facts that we melted down in the second half against GB and then ran up the score against the punchless Browns things get less surprising.

I think we knew that the offense was playing beneath itself in games 1 and 2 and clearly things have gotten better (hard NOT to get better, though).  Still, 55 points is great but all we have to show for it is a single win over a team that is barely NFL-caliber.  That win over the Browns reminds me of that season where we got all pumped that Hill "got his mojo back" every time we were playing a god awful team.

Anyways, positive signs but saying we should have the best record in the NFL right now is.....well, it's just beyond wishful thinking.

And here I thought I was jaded. 

We didn't run up the score on the Browns. Heck it was the opposite. Marv went into his typical prevent offense in the 2nd half. I'd argue the same of the Packers game. We racked up a 21-7 lead then started handing off like crazy. I don't think anyone looked at the offense after 2 weeks of record setting failure, and said to themselves "oh these guys are just playing beneath themselves" or however you want to put it.

It wasn't just a catastrophe on the scoreboard, it was a wreck on the field. Sure, nobody thought we were going to average 4.5 ppg for the entire season, but it was shaping up to possibly give our 2000 offense a run for the money. It's easy to say "oh, it was just the Browns" now, but here's a sampling from the Brown's prediction thread:

Quote:bengals67
Rookie QB has a coming out party. Bengals offense scores some point in first half but fails to make half time adjustments and are shut down in second half.

Quote:bengals73
I predict : 

Quote:Gdale_Bengal
Bengals play down to the competition and lose to the damn browns. 27-10

Quote:BengalHawk62

browns-  13
bengals- 6

ugly, ugly, ugly.  bad football.  and I don't plan on watching a minute of it.

Quote:Awful Llama

Browns 17
Bengals 12 

Quote:Jakeypoo
Browns 17 

Bengals 9
Bengals Defense plays well enough to win but the offense continues it's struggles.

Quote:yellowxdiscipline
This team is a disaster, we go 0-4, and Marvin gets fired after it.


Browns 28
Bengals 13