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(10-21-2015, 08:49 AM)Atomic Orange Wrote: All I kept reading between the lines was

"I want on the bandwagon before it's too late yet i wish to keep my options open in case it isn't".

FWIW Toast, this has been the best Bengals team probably of all time going on five years now. Sure they failed in the playoffs but IMO they never deserved the venom the haters (you being a big one) ,spewed week in/out on the old forum. The realist's realize that the team was a mess for a decade plus and the laughing stock of the entire sports world.

It takes time to clime out of the ashes from that you know? Maybe you expected a little too much out of our rookie quarterback coming into a bad situation yet still managing to lead the team to the playoffs not only in his rookie year but every year since. All the while never having veteran leadership to learn anything from. It appears he has put it all together in year 5 which would have been par back in the olden days when QB's sat behind veterans for a year or two. Aaron Rodgers had that benefit behind Favre and it paid off great for him because honestly I saw nothing in him that lead me to believe he would become the QB he is today and i'm sure many Packer fans would agree. Decent yes, on par with Brett Favre? No. Better than Brett Favre? HELL NO. So yeah sometimes it just takes time.

I personally have been hard on Marvin in the past but i came to the realization that the guy is pretty strapped operating under the antique which is Mike Brown. The truth is he is probably the savior of this small market NFL franchise so he deserves dome props as well.

Anyway, it's all just football man.  A game for the players and entertainment for the fans. No sense in getting bent out of shape to the extreme one way or the other.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but to your point about Aaron Rodgers, I believe he sat behind Favre for 3 years.

AD came into the Bengals in a shambles, coming off a disastrous season in the middle of a strike.  The fact he won as many games as he did that first year is nothing short of a miracle.  Not to mention that all of the so-called "talent" he has now was not here then or were rookies (e.g. AJ Green).

In fact, if he wins a couple more road ball games he will have won the most road games in his first 5 years than any QB in the history of the NFL.  Simply amazing.  Heck, I remember the days when the Bengals had zero chance of winning any road game.  Wow, have times changed!