Telling quote from Carson Palmer

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(07-30-2015, 12:42 AM)WhoDeyWho Wrote: I guess.  There is an entire 16-game season that leads to those playoff games every year.  You seem to be discounting the importance and the excitement of those games week in and week out.  

It's a lot more fun watching a team that is playing every week for a shot at the playoffs rather than draft seeding.

I don't disagree with you, but being from Pittsburgh I recall late in the 2013 season sitting at the Sunday night game between the Bengals and Steelers at Heinz Field with my cousin (also a Bengals fan) and 2 Steelers fan friends and the Bengals were a lock to win the division but were getting shellacked by the Steelers.  A guy behind us says (not to us) "Who cares, let the Bengals make the playoffs, they won't do anything."  I'm not saying this guy was a visionary (sour grapist, is more like it) but that's what the Bengals have become until further notice (and that guy said it 2 losses ago).

Yea, the regular season is exciting, but we're the opposite of the Ravens, Giants, or Steelers; teams that make the playoffs and people think "Look out, this team can go on a run."  By this point it seems like people around here, and even experts, are talking about this being the make or break year Dalton wins or doesn't win a playoff game.  People already assume the Bengals will make it, so the important stuff isn't going to happen for months after the season starts, I guess.

Anyways, I think we're getting a little off topic but good discussion.