Bengals Did Improve To 7-9 and 7-7 with Lasor

[Brownshoe]

(01-01-2018, 02:22 AM)kevin Wrote: Bengals were 6-10 last year and started 0-2 with no touchdowns. Out with Zampese, in with Lasor.  Somehow this awful, awful team at start of season came back and played .500 ball rest of season.  NO QUIT....Wins that stand out are winning at Denver, Beating Buffalo.  Finishing with wins over Detroit and Baltimore.   So Bengals did NOT go 6-10 or 4-12 or 0-16 like Browns.  7-9 is respectable, not great, but respectable. You can get back to the play-offs faster from 7-9 than you can 0-16.  Trust me, Browns would LOVE to be 7-9 after being in last every year winning almost no games at all.  I thought Bengals had packed it in and wouldn't win another game and would go 5-11.   Some how team woke up. maybe trying to win for Marvin, maybe the guard moved to left tackle, maybe all of it, and team NEVER QUIT and finished a respectable 7-9.

It's crazy to think that this team was actually close to going to the playoffs. We had a few close games this season that we could have won. Texans, Packers, Titans, and Steelers were all close games. If the ball bounced our way in those games we could have been 11-5 and that's with all of our problems. This team just needs a new head coach and improvements at the OL and we might have a very good team on our hands. We have found the answer at the running game with Mixon and Gio. Green is always a top receiver, and with Kroft, Boyd, and possibly Ross our receiving core isn't that bad. If we get a new HC and draft Nelson in the first and Price in the second I will be VERY hyped for the next season.