03-13-2019, 03:05 PM
(03-13-2019, 02:22 PM)MentalRage Wrote: Put free agency aside. Look at the team right now. Do you honestly believe the Bengals will be good enough to win the division this year? If you do believe they will be a good team please explain why? Did the terrible o-line get better? Did our slow linebackers get faster?
You seem to be pretty condescending to anyone who has even the slightest negative opinion of the Bengals. So I'd like to know why you stay so optimistic despite all the evidence pointing to them to drafting in the top 10 in 2020.
I'm not trying to come off as a dick. I genuinely want to know why you think everyone should be happy with the team.
First of all I am not condescending to "anyone who has even the slightest negative opinion of the Bengals" If you had spent any time here you would have seen all of the times I have been critical of the Bengals front office. But there are a handful of posters here who criticize every single move the Bengals make (or don't make) based on their opinion that the Bengals have been the worst team in the league for years. For some reason no one here made a thread about the Ravens losing a huge star like Mosely, but when they sign just a decent RB suddenly it has to posted here as a reason to shit on the Bengals.
The reason I have not broken down into a hopeless whiner yet is because I remember 2011 when the Bengals improved their scoring defense from 24th to 9th by signing three new starters in free agency. Not a single one of those signings was a big-money first-day signing.
So when free agency and the draft is over I will be in more of a position to give an opinion on our off season. So far I am not thrilled with our new coaching staff (more concern about coordinators and position coaches than Taylor) or the contract given to Hart. But I am far from giving up this early in the game.
If you ever take part in a game day thread you will see these constant whiners predicting a Bengal loss every time we fall behind in the first half. They are often wrong, but they just ignore all the times they were wrong and claim they have been right for "30 years".
