Carson on XM Right Now

[Nicomo Cosca]

(04-22-2020, 11:00 PM)Nately120 Wrote: The fact that we have to look back a decade to point to five straight one-and-dones as proof that we are a relevant franchise could be seen as evidence enough that Mike Brown isn't the hardest-working owner in sports.

We blew up in the playoffs over and over and Palmer blew up in the NFC championship game.  The fact that this is some sort of rivalry when there are fanbases that can argue which of their SB-winning QBs is best is telling.

And the media doesn't like the Bengals because we spent the majority of the past 30 years being crappy and/or boring.  When we do stuff they'll change their tune.  Asking the media to slobber over a 2-14 team like us is a bit much.  If we win, they will praise us.  If you would have told anyone in the early 90s that the New England Patriots, New Orleans Saints, and Seattle Seahawks would be media darlings in the new millennium they would have laughed at you.

You have to win before the media takes notice.  If you want people to slobber over you before you've done anything then the 2019 Browns may be more your speed.

I don’t need the media to “slober” over us, but what would be nice is a little consistency. They literally spent 3 months creating fake narratives about how Joe Burrow might pull an Eli (despite his family getting out in front of it immediately), and then when he himself stated he wouldn’t they switched gears to Cincinnati ruins QB’s. Also not true. And the fact that some of them deemed Miami a better landing spot is beyond laughable. You didn’t hear any of this shit about other QB’s that who went #1 to such storied franchises as the Cleveland Browns, Arizona Cardinals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, etc.