**THIS IS A THREAD FROM BEFORE THE CHIEFS GAME IN 2015.  EDITED AND UPDATED**

Bengals are 15-14 all time against the chiefs.  8-5 in Cincinnati.  Bengals have not lost to the Chiefs at home in THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS

NOTABLE GAMES

1969....Super Bowl Champion Chiefs only lose 3 games.  One of them was when a 4 win Bengals team came from behind in the fourth quarter on an 80 yard pass from Sam Wyche to Bob Trumpy to win 24-19.

1986......First of only 3 times the teams met in a year where they both won at least 10 games.  Bengals lose on opening day 24-14

1988.....On their way to a Super Bowl the 8-2 Bengals lay an egg against a 1-8-1 Chiefs team.  After taking a 28-16 lead on a Stanford Jennings 98 yard kick return in the third quarter the Bengals shut it down.  Chiefs score 4 straight times (2 FG, 1 td, 1 safety) to win 31-28.

2003....Bengals play Chiefs for the first time in ten years and it was a doozy.  Bengals come into the game 4-5, but brash young WR Chad Johnson guarantees they will beat the undefeated (9-0) Chiefs. Peter Warrick has 212 all-purpose yards including a 77 yard td reception and a 68 yards td punt return.  Bengals never trail and win 24-19.

2005....Second time teams met in a season when both won at least ten games.  This was the last game of the year and Bengals had already clinched home field playoff spot.  Starters don't play very much and Bengals lose 37-3 to a Chiefs team fighting for a playoff spot.  Future Bengal Larry Johnson has 201 rushing yards and 3 tds for the chiefs.

2006....After playing Chiefs in last game of '05 Bengals open the '06 season in Arrowhead.  Carson Palmer impresses everyone with his recovery from playoff knee injury in just 8 months.  Bengals win easily 23-10 as many experts begin to call them one of the best teams in the league.  However a rash of injuries turns the Bengals season into a 8-8 disappointment while the Chiefs bounce back to make the playoffs.

2009.....A Bengals team running on fumes (outscored 128-65 while finishing 1-4) needs a TD with 2 minutes left to pull out a 17-10 win against the hapless (4-12) Chiefs in week 16.  Even though it was ugly, the win clinched an AFCN Championship.

2015....Bengals move to 4-0 with easy 36-21 win and drop Chiefs to 1-3.  But Chiefs go on to win 11 regular season games and another in the playoffs. Dalton had 321 yards on just 24 attempts.  Chiefs had 461 yards offense but zero tds. (7 FG)

Maybe I am missing something so thought I would ask for some help on Bleacher Report power ranking after week 3.

It has the Bengals ranked 4th overall which i find a accurate ranking at this time of the season.. and in the ranking it shows what bleacher reporter ranked them the highest and lowest.. I am assuming they mean for week 3.  So if that is true.. what does Ty Schalter have against the Bengals and why does he love Baltimore so much ?

He ranked the 3-0 Bengals after defeating the 0-3 Ravens... 9th in power ranking and the Ravens 7th in power rankings.

What the hell is this guy thinking ?

PS The Steelers he has ranked 20th... ??

Gotta love this.

https://twitter.com/FOX19Joe/status/648972799579684864

Week 1 He used up all his timeouts like they were candy against Raiders.
week 2 and 3 His end of first half reasoning was just terrible with favorable field position . Yes we had a lead in both games but leaving potential points on the board is a recipe for disaster.

He said on ESPN that the Bengals can compete with the Patriots and he called Eifert a mini Gronk he said there isn't any doubt that the Bengals can play with them defensively and offensively and he said that we are probably more explosive than the Patriots and showed our defense and said it would be an interesting matchup f they cross paths in the playoffs. Thought that was pretty good insight, thoughts ?

t sounds a little silly to call an All-Pro player underrated, but a lot of people don't even think of Jamaal Charles when talking about the best RBs in the game. If he could stay healthy he would be in the conversation for not just the current best, but one of the best of all time.

He has scored more tds over the last two years (33) than any other player in the league.

He has been in the league 7 years and has never had a season where he averaged less than 5.0 yards a carry.

No RB in the last 60 years has a higher career average per carry than Charles' 5.5.

Over the last decade only 4 other RBs have had a season with at least 72.0 rushing yards per game and 5.5 yards per carry (only Adrian Peterson did it twice), but those are Charles CAREER averages over 96 games.

Only one other RB in history had a season with at least 1400 rushing yards and an average of 6.4 per carry. (Jim Brown '63)

Only 5 other players in NFL history have had a season with at least 1200 rushing yards, 70 receptions, and a 5.0 yards per carry average.

We can concede that Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Peyton Manning, Russell Wilson, Andrew Luck, Tony Romo, Drew Brees, Ben Roethlisberger, Cam Newton, Phillip Rivers and Matt Ryan are better than Andy Dalton. However, compare him to every other QB in the league and he not only compares favorably, but better. Others there's not enough sample size to bring into the argument or he's clearly better than. With that said...here you go.

Dalton (5 years) - 107 TD, 67 INT, 61.8 Comp %, 86.7 QBR
Stafford (7 years) - 136 TD, 90 INT, 59.8 Comp %, 83.4 QBR
Cutler (10 years) - 185 TD, 132 INT, 61.7 Comp %, 85.1 QBR
Flacco (8 years) - 152 TD, 94 INT, 60.7 Comp %, 84.7 QBR
Smith (10 years) - 126 TD, 79 INT, 60.5 Comp %, 83.0 QBR
Bradford (6 years) - 62 TD, 42 INT, 58.9 Comp %, 78.9 QBR
Palmer (12 years) - 233 TD, 157 INT, 62.6 Comp %, 86.9 QBR
Manning (12 years) - 263 TD, 185 INT, 59.1 Comp %, 82.7 QBR

Andy ranked 1st or 2nd in every stat, which includes TD/INT ratio, Comp % and QBR.

He's in a unique scenario where it's literally only the playoffs.

The way the Bengals are portrayed in this article is pathetic.



http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000540997/article/carson-palmer-burying-bad-vibes-from-bengals-break-in-Arizona



"In Palmer's mind, however, his most formidable foe never recorded a sack or an interception against him, and in fact was not a team but a single man: Bengals owner Mike Brown, with whom Palmer engaged in a Take This Job And Shove It staredown that provoked the quarterback's premature retirement and, eventually, abrupt departure from Cincinnati four seasons ago. "

"Palmer goes on to say "I took an owner head-on, you know?" Palmer told me as the two of us stood at his University of Phoenix Stadium locker following the Cards' 47-7 thrashing of the Niners, which gave Arizona (3-0) a two-game lead in the NFC West three weeks into the season. "That's shunned in this league, and people don't like it -- and the NFL definitely doesn't like it. That's hurt me a lot, and I've been bounced around pretty good since it happened."

the quarterback was awash in his newfound "football heaven," a term employed by tight end Jermaine Gresham, recently acquired from (you guessed it) the Bengals.

"He's pretty [expletive] good," Gresham said of Palmer, with whom he was teammates in Cincinnati during the 2010 campaign. "I think he can be even better."






I'm glad Andy Dalton is my quarterback, and I'm glad Gresham is no longer a Bengal.

Palmer takes pride in 'taking on an owner head-on'? Pathetic.

Defend Palmer all you want but it's petty.

It wasn't overlooked when Unibrow spewed his haterade earlier in the week, but how do you suppose he likes 'em now...?

September 8, 2014: Unibrow completes a fourth quarter, 80-yard TD strike to Douchebag Sr., leaving four minutes on the clock. Dalton nullifies it with a 77-yard rip to AJ Green. Bengals' D holds, forces turnover on downs.
September 27, 2015: Fourth quarter, Unibrow to Douchebag Sr. nullified in short order by a Dalton-Green response TD. Bengals' D forces turnover on downs.

Unibrow has thrown two times as many INTs vs. the Bengals than ANY other team. He has 13 TDs to 18 INTs against Cincinnati, which is wretched, especially compared to his efforts against Pissburgh (17 TD, 6 INTs).

Hate them, Unibrow. It is your destiny.


Next observation is this: Unibrow, much like his namesake's prefix, is single-minded in his approach this season. He targeted Douchebag Sr. 18 times versus 8 other WR targets combined. In the preceding two games, the ratio was 40 to 25. Sixty-three percent of Unibrow's throws to wideouts are to Douchebag Sr.

By comparison, AJ Green thus far has been targeted on exactly 50% of Dalton's throw to receivers. Is a 13% differential any big deal? I think so, factoring their guy's age (36), his plan to retire at season's end, and their other WRs amounted to 40 combined yards. (Marvin Jones and Sanu combined for 122.) With Steve Smith doing so much damage, where's their Marvin Jones? Where's their next season's Douchebag Sr.? See what I'm sayin'?


Finally, I'll add this as a fish-barrel potshot: The Ratbirds are some whiny bitches. Douchebag Sr. has been talking, of course. He always talks. He had stuff to say about the Panthers, now he's calling out his locker room. Unibrow, too.

But get this...! Somebody else is ragging on the Ratbirds. From the outside, no less:

The New England Patriots have no business talking about the Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens are not even on their schedule. Yet a team that is known for saying little, they feel the need to open their mouths these days, most recently about the Ravens.

There have been accusations floating around that the Ravens tipped off the Indianapolis Colts about deflate gate even though there is no proof that the Ravens did such a thing. Head coach John Harbaugh has been pretty adamant about the fact that the Ravens never tipped off anyone. Patriots President Jonathan Kraft felt the need to speak about the Ravens 0-3 start to the 2015 season via 98.5 The Sports Hub.

"It's really too bad about Baltimore," Kraft said to host Marc Bertrand while laughing. Then Bertrand said that he wasn't surprised by the Ravens slow start because of karma...

LMAO! The cheatin'-ass Patriots goin' in on the Ratbirds! "Karma"! Ha! I'm in no hurry for Cincinnati to join the upper-crust drama...but then again, maybe it'd be nice to be in the company of the most feared and hated.

Quote:“One of these days we’ll figure out how to cover A.J. Green. It would be nice if we did that before he retires.” - John Harbaugh

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/09/27/a-j-green-dominates-the-ravens-again/