"Four takeaways from AFCN crazy offseason"

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(03-22-2019, 06:09 PM)XsandOs Wrote: Agreed.

All plans look good on paper. Yet at times they aren't even worth the paper they are written on.

Steelers haven't put a complete Team on the field for the most part of this decade. And they lost Brown, Bell and Foster(?).

Ravens D just lost a third of their starting lineup and their offense is offensive to the game.

Browns winning meaningless games has happened before, followed by reality the next year. Let's see how long Beckham takes to poison that locker room. Losing Zeitler and Peppers (out of spite to Hue), can't be good.

The same Bengal Team, when healthy, went 4-1 last year and beat 2 playoff Teams. We may start the season slow, but I feel that Taylor will make a difference.

The Bengals are on an 8 game losing streak against the Steelers. I don't think you can be talking about "complete team" as a method to argue against the Bengals being at the bottom of the division right now. Not to mention that they didn't have Bell last year either, and still swept the Bengals.

The Browns also swept the Bengals last year.

Who was it that got hurt that you considered the Bengals no longer "healthy"? Because the Bengals were 5-6 in games Dalton started last year. They were 5-3 in games that AJ Green started last year. No matter how you cut it, 4-1 as the "healthy" mark is randomly arbitrary. More like "Hey, this was a great start that was unsustainable, but lets pretend that is because they were healthy." You also mention them beating two playoff teams, but failed to mention that the first one (the Colts) was Andrew Luck having not thrown a football for almost two years and the second was the Ravens with Joe Flacco, who was 4-5 last year. So the playoff team wins statement comes with an enormous asterisk.

The Bengals are 19-28-1 over the last three years.