11-21-2018, 07:58 PM
(11-21-2018, 03:15 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I have and I doesn't make any difference. When I point out that other teams were favored you claim that doesn't mean anything.
When I point out that the '09 team was garbage after Henry got injured and the '14 team started Rex Burkhead at WR you claim it doesn't mean any thing.
The entire Bengals team could die in a plane crash and you would claim it doesn't matter because "good coaches can win with dead players".
There is no excuse for the loss to the Chargers, and we should have won in '15 also, but just because we lost a couple of playoff games does not mean it is now impossible for use to win one. Ken Anderson had zero playoff wins in the first ten years of his career. If you had been a fan back then you would have ran him out of town with a pitchfork because it was IMPOSSIBLE for him to ever win a playoff game.
It's not one excuse or another that I take issue with. It's that you can't reasonably say that 7 teams were good enough to make the playoffs, but not good enough to win a single game. 7 sets of excuses doesn't fly. Especially when the games weren't even close.
You expect me to believe Chris Henry was the difference between a win and a loss in the Jets game? Chris Henry wasn't even any good in 2009. 12 catches for 236 yards and 2 TD's in 8 games. As for starting Burkhead at receiver, we were also starting Sanu...and the Colts were starting a practice squad RB in Boom Herron. Somehow the Colts were able to get much more out of their 4th string RB (141 yards rushing/receiving + a TD) than we were able to get from anyone...including Jeremy Hill, who had rushed for 1100 yards that year.
Overall point being that a few injuries didn't break the Colts, so why do we expect a few injuries to break the Bengals?
As to Kenny, he only went 0-2 in the playoffs, not 0-7...and one of those games was a very close 28-31 loss to a Raiders team that won the SB the following year. And when did I ever say it was impossible for Marv to win a playoff game? I would only say it's highly unlikely based on history. Sure, we weren't favored in most of them. The Giants also weren't favored in any of their 4 playoff games on their way to the 2007 championship.
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