Oakland: Concerned?

[clevelandsdad]

(09-03-2015, 01:01 PM)OrlandoBengal Wrote: I disagree.  I think they should use it as motivation.  I saw "A Football Life" with Warren Sapp.  He said that they were in San Diego and he was getting dressed for breakfast when ESPN said the Bucs had never won on the west coast.  He said that he went to Brooks' room and they went to the team breakfast and announced "this s%#t stops today, we win today no matter what".  I think this team could benefit from some of that fire.  Go in there with a little chip on their shoulders.

I'm not against them using it as motivation. I'm all for a little extra fire under their a**.

All I am saying is that the Bengals' history in Oakland has absolutely nothing do with how this game will turn out. This is a completely different team in a completely different time period than any previous games with Oakland. Now, us losing to Pittsburgh or New England this year (hypothetically), we clearly see that the recent history of this team shows that we struggle with them. However, we have no recent history with Oakland with this Bengals team. 

History is a non-factor in this scenario.