(Yesterday, 04:45 PM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: I wish we had Tomlin.

The real question is what if we go 0-4?

We going 0-4. 

What if we go 0-13

(Today, 12:12 AM)Brownshoe Wrote: Every loss this year has stung. This one stings, but I feel a bit more numb to it. Honestly, I don't know if I'm going to be able to get excited about this team again this year. I don't think I need to get upset or excited for this team anymore this year, and honestly if Taylor is still around next year I don't see myself getting hyped for the team still. I'll always be a Bengals fan and always root for the Bengals, but there's no point anymore. It was a fun run those two years.

This 100% I am upset but more just sad. And no hope anymore with this team. I will pay attention but I am done getting excited or buying any "coach talk" BS. 

(09-21-2024, 02:54 PM)BengalYankee Wrote: The Squealers are 1.5 favorite at home to go 3 - 0 , before we step on the field Monday night. 

(Yesterday, 01:25 AM)BengalYankee Wrote: The Squealers are 1.5 favorite at home to go 3 - 0 
Step 1

 before we step lose on the field Monday night.
 Step 2 

(Today, 12:12 AM)Brownshoe Wrote: Every loss this year has stung. This one stings, but I feel a bit more numb to it. Honestly, I don't know if I'm going to be able to get excited about this team again this year. I don't think I need to get upset or excited for this team anymore this year, and honestly if Taylor is still around next year I don't see myself getting hyped for the team still. I'll always be a Bengals fan and always root for the Bengals, but there's no point anymore. It was a fun run those two years.

I have seen almost every Bengals game for the last 35 years.  We finally got Burrow and then Chase.  Superbowl!!  Back to the AFCCG!!  What a great 2 years out of 35.  

Now, at this point, I genuinely feel no excitement.  It's just gone.  I wish the Browns would just sell the team.  The Bengals finally broke me.  Part of this is the season being basically over with 15 weeks to go.  Nothing to look forward to.   Maybe see a couple wins that don't matter.  

The brown family and Tobin will continue to be a curse on this team probably long after I die.  I am about to turn 50 and I honestly believe I will never see the Bengals in a SB again.  Just sad.  I don't even care about the next game.  Nothing on D can be fixed that quick, the Brown family will do nothing, and we are not making the playoffs, so the rest of this season is pointless and it's over.  Just play rookies and backups and try to get them up to speed.  Save the starters for next year.

(10 hours ago)Mickeypoo Wrote: I have seen almost every Bengals game for the last 35 years.  We finally got Burrow and then Chase.  Superbowl!!  Back to the AFCCG!!  What a great 2 years out of 35.  

Now, at this point, I genuinely feel no excitement.  It's just gone.  I wish the Browns would just sell the team.  The Bengals finally broke me.  Part of this is the season being basically over with 15 weeks to go.  Nothing to look forward to.   Maybe see a couple wins that don't matter.  

The brown family and Tobin will continue to be a curse on this team probably long after I die.  I am about to turn 50 and I honestly believe I will never see the Bengals in a SB again.  Just sad.  I don't even care about the next game.  Nothing on D can be fixed that quick, the Brown family will do nothing, and we are not making the playoffs, so the rest of this season is pointless and it's over.  Just play rookies and backups and try to get them up to speed.  Save the starters for next year.

Well, wish I were so young! 

Too early in the season to give up. All close losses, including one stop from defeating KC, so the Bengals could turn it around. Whether they can go 11-3 or perhaps 10-4 to get into the playoffs is a tough row to hoe, but it has to start next Sunday.

(9 hours ago)Nepa Wrote: Well, wish I were so young! 

Too early in the season to give up. All close losses, including one stop from defeating KC, so the Bengals could turn it around. Whether they can go 11-3 or perhaps 10-4 to get into the playoffs is a tough row to hoe, but it has to start next Sunday.

Ya, I guess we will see Sunday.  

I definitely feel for the older guys.  

(9 hours ago)Nepa Wrote: Well, wish I were so young! 

Too early in the season to give up. All close losses, including one stop from defeating KC, so the Bengals could turn it around. Whether they can go 11-3 or perhaps 10-4 to get into the playoffs is a tough row to hoe, but it has to start next Sunday.

Yep, still not over and every loss has been close, but this is prime Bengals... play well and throw away a win at the 2x champs, then play abysmally at home and lose to two of the less good teams in the league...

I do believe the offence can heat up and go on a run. Problem is the defence, they seem to be built to combat Mahomes but literally nobody else. Be an incredible path to make the playoffs from here unfortunately, but we have shown in the past we can go on a tear. Odds very much against it, but not 0% just yet.

(8 hours ago)TheCincinnatiKid Wrote: Yep, still not over and every loss has been close, but this is prime Bengals... play well and throw away a win at the 2x champs, then play abysmally at home and lose to two of the less good teams in the league...

I do believe the offence can heat up and go on a run. Problem is the defence, they seem to be built to combat Mahomes but literally nobody else. Be an incredible path to make the playoffs from here unfortunately, but we have shown in the past we can go on a tear. Odds very much against it, but not 0% just yet.

Well and then people complain that the Chiefs get calls and we don't.

When you lay an egg on MNF to a rookie QB in a game you should win...you don't get league respect.

From 0-3, we have 14 games to go. We'd need to finish 10-4 to make the playoffs. No way that's happening.

The Bengals, 3 games into the season have basically took away the meaningfulness of the season.

The problem is Sam Hubbard is washed the other 2 DT are terrible. So 3/4 of our Dline is terrible. So no negative plays in the run game and no pressure in the pass game.

(8 hours ago)THE PISTONS Wrote: Well and then people complain that the Chiefs get calls and we don't.

When you lay an egg on MNF to a rookie QB in a game you should win...you don't get league respect.

From 0-3, we have 14 games to go. We'd need to finish 10-4 to make the playoffs. No way that's happening.

The Bengals, 3 games into the season have basically took away the meaningfulness of the season.

I'm certainly not putting money on us making it in, but we have a pretty easy schedule and if we can find form similar to two years ago, then we would have a shot. 

But this defence is not the same, and we've already lost to two bad teams, so I'm by no means saying it's likely. 

We played well against the Chiefs and should have won. We play at that level in the other two games and we're 2-1 at the worst. But last night was predictable... not predictable in the sense I thought we'd lose, but predictable in the sense I knew we wouldn't play nearly as well as in the Chiefs game.

Only bright side is if the bengals beat Dalton, that would make Cincy 1-3.

Bengals started 1-3 last year and finished 9-8. And that was with Browning playing most of the season

(10 hours ago)Mickeypoo Wrote: Now, at this point, I genuinely feel no excitement.  It's just gone.  I wish the Browns would just sell the team.  The Bengals finally broke me.  

Yep.  Totally agree.  The Browns could sell the team, the Bengals franchise could cease to exist, and I would be like... "meh."

(8 hours ago)Tomkat Wrote: Yep.  Totally agree.  The Browns could sell the team, the Bengals franchise could cease to exist, and I would be like... "meh."

If Mike Brown would just ***** die, the black cloud over this franchise would be gone.

(7 hours ago)rfaulk34 Wrote: If Mike Brown would just ***** die, the black cloud over this franchise would be gone.

Would it, though?  Who's to say whomever takes over just doesn't continue the status quo?

(8 hours ago)Frank Booth Wrote: Only bright side is if the Bengals beat Dalton…

…which isn’t happening. The secondary plays a soft zone and there is no pass rush whatsoever. Under those conditions Andy Dalton will carve up this defense like a Thanksgiving turkey.

(7 hours ago)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: …which isn’t happening. The secondary plays a soft zone and there is no pass rush whatsoever. Under those conditions Andy Dalton will carve up this defense like a Thanksgiving turkey.

Yea... it should theoretically be better when Rankins, Hill, and Murphy get healthy

I usually support Tobin. WTS He takes 100 percent of the blame for this dumpster fire of a DLine. It was malpractice for a NFL team to go into the season with the Dline players we had available. Can't blame this on money either. We could have traded Tee got compensation with money that was freed up sign a couple decent Dlinemen. This Defense might be historically bad aand it's because of the incompetence and arrogance of the front office thinking this dline would be competitive. Take away Tre and Georgia's Dline is more talented.

(7 hours ago)Tomkat Wrote: Would it, though?  Who's to say whomever takes over just doesn't continue the status quo?

The cloud arrived the day he took over. If nothing else, i'm ready to see if it leaves when he does. 

(09-18-2024, 06:23 PM)Awful Llama Wrote:

Yeah, well, looks like we're here.

Since the team's sudden down-swing there's been renewed talk about how this organization is ran.  Some suggest that if Mike were no longer in the picture that things would improve, that it's his pulling strings behind the scenes that keeps us down.  But, I feel it's already too late for that.  His death will mean nothing in the way of change for this organization because Katie knows the blueprint all too well at this point.  All she has to do is field a team that's competitive for a spell every now and again, and the fans will stay faithful, buying tickets and merchandise and keeping the family's coffers full.  Paul left them an idiot-proof license to print money, and generations of this family are going to what's just necessary enough to be able to keep doing precisely that.  So, we can either accept that reality and go root for another team, perhaps one with an owner committed to moving heaven and earth for a championship, or we can acknowledge our fate as fans of this organization and just enjoy the times when the team enjoys some occasional success.  I guess I've chosen the latter.  

(7 hours ago)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: …which isn’t happening.  The secondary plays a soft zone and there is no pass rush whatsoever.  Under those conditions Andy Dalton will carve up this defense like a Thanksgiving turkey.

I feel like we talk about the same issues over and over and over. We've done this for years and years. No matter who the coaches are.