03-19-2018, 06:55 PM
(03-19-2018, 06:32 PM)George Cantstandya Wrote: I don't really get all this conspiracy stuff against the Bengals. They have not been really relevant for decades. So why would the NFL conspire against them? I don't really see Goodell having a staff meeting and saying, "I know it is a small market team that has not won a playoff game in decades, so how can we screw the Bengals this year? Should we find a way to suspend Burfict again? That will show them. Mostly I just hate their mascot so let's find a way to screw them over. (insert evil laugh)"
The Bengals biggest undoing has been the Bengals themselves. Lack of discipline, accountability and leadership, starting with Mike Brown , trickling down to Marvin, and then to the players. That is what is really conspiring against the Bengals. As for a preference for the Steelers, the NFL actually benefits from a more competitive AFCN. The games have more meaning and in turn more viewership when they actually mean something.
This. The league doesn't have it out for the bengals, the bengals are just hampered by sheer incompetence.
If there really were a plot to keep the bengals down.... There is absolutely no way in hell the league would have let the bengals win at Pittsburgh, with a playoff spot on the line, in the waning moments of the game, on the anniversary of the immaculate reception in 2012. There is just no way that would have ever been allowed to happen.
