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RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - Bengal Dude - 08-23-2017 (08-22-2017, 09:21 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: Why is it necessary for the team to get a whooping before they 'realize' they need to play better? Perhaps these wake up games are just what the doctor ordered. RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - sandwedge - 08-23-2017 (08-23-2017, 04:11 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: This came to mind as well when I had created the post.Can't argue with you there. Not sure why there are times this team just comes out flat and looks like a Chinese fire drill. RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - Truck_1_0_1_ - 08-23-2017 (08-23-2017, 04:11 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: This came to mind as well when I had created the post. Specific to that game, we left a good 14 points or so on the board (early points too), due to Gresham drops (may have only been 1, but there was another), which most-definitely would've changed the flow and momentum of the game. Man, if we had Eifert in '14... RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - Derrick - 08-23-2017 (08-22-2017, 09:35 PM)Hammerstripes Wrote: Good Lord. It's preseason.Uh, it has happened in many a season past too. RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - Derrick - 08-23-2017 (08-22-2017, 11:13 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: 0-7 can make a team cocky I guess?But it IS run like a business albeit a FAMILY business. RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - grampahol - 08-23-2017 Look how much these guys get paid, millions of dollars often. Even the worse player in the league makes more money than most of us will make in ten years and every year they get an automatic raise of $15,000 if they stay in the league. http://www.spotrac.com/blog/nfl-minimum-salaries-for-2017/ How many jobs get an automatic $15,000 raise every year? Hell, my daughter's last job in Dayton 5 years ago gave her a 15 cent raise after a year. FIFTEEN CENTS! I can remember telling an employer to stick his nickel raise up his ass once.. That was over 20 years ago, but.... Call me old fashioned, but the motivation is getting that kind of salary regardless of how well you play or not. Anyone who needs to be yelled at earning that kind of money really has no business playing football. You underperform you lose your job. It really doesn't have to be any more complicated than that. If I were coaching in the league that would be the prime motivation. You like making a minimum of $465,000 and an automatic raise next year of another $15,000? Play AT LEAST as good as the worse player in the league and consider that your next contract assuming you get one may pay you ten times that.. Nobody needs to get screamed at because with those kinds of salaries there's a very long line of young men ready and willing to take your place every single day. Plenty of college players are looking for jobs in the league. It ain't like a minimum wage job working at the drive through window where nobody really wants the job or picking crops in the hot sun for peanuts. RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - Essex Johnson - 08-23-2017 (08-23-2017, 07:31 AM)HarleyDog Wrote: I understand where your coming from. So, I guess we have different opinions on the definition of success. If you build 7 houses, and forget to put a roof on each of them, then I guess you successfully built a house. However the investors that paid for them will probably advise you of your mistake and suggest you find a different career. If you don't, you shouldn't expect investors to believe in your abilities to complete a house successfully. With that said, I think Marvin would make one helluva hospice worker. He is an expert at telling people everything will be ok, as he watches them take their last breath. Another way to look at it.. is you try to build 7 houses and they all collapse on you before you can build the roof... so yes we would have different opinions on success RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - bengalfan74 - 08-23-2017 (08-22-2017, 09:35 PM)Hammerstripes Wrote: Good Lord. It's preseason. If we went 12-4 last season, won a playoff game or two, and basically had the same team going in this year I'd fully agree with you. But we don't ! (08-22-2017, 11:13 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: 0-7 can make a team cocky I guess? Exactly Harley Mike Browns weird obsession with honoring contracts and on and on kills accountability - period. RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - Essex Johnson - 08-23-2017 (08-23-2017, 06:23 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: If we went 12-4 last season, won a playoff game or two, and basically had the same team going in this year I'd fully agree with you. But we don't ! If that was true explain that just 3 years ago in the middle of our playoff run, we had one of the youngest team in the league and now this year we might also have one of the younger teams again depending on our final roster. RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - Nately120 - 08-23-2017 We Win= Good. We are building momentum and it will carry into next week and help us win. We Lose = Good. Wake-up call. We will be mad and carry that into next week which will help us win. It's all in how you spin it. RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - HarleyDog - 08-23-2017 (08-23-2017, 06:01 PM)grampahol Wrote: Look how much these guys get paid, millions of dollars often. Even the worse player in the league makes more money than most of us will make in ten years and every year they get an automatic raise of $15,000 if they stay in the league. http://www.spotrac.com/blog/nfl-minimum-salaries-for-2017/ Somehow you really had me tied to your analogy, but then there was a cliff and I fell off at the end? RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - HarleyDog - 08-23-2017 (08-23-2017, 06:59 PM)Nately120 Wrote: We Win= Good. We are building momentum and it will carry into next week and help us win. I think you literally just explained "The Football Fan!" Doesn't just apply to Bengal fans. I would almost say it broadens to fans of all sports. Very good post. RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - GreenCornBengal - 08-23-2017 (08-23-2017, 06:59 PM)Nately120 Wrote: We Win= Good. We are building momentum and it will carry into next week and help us win. Hit the nail on the head here Nate. Which is exactly why the following irks me even more! It's Steeler week, Marv preaches "we will practice like it is any other game" It's Wildcard weekend, Marv preaches "we will practice like it is any other game" After Loss, Marv preaches "Team was humbled and will now practice harder/make adjustments/be angry and do better next week" Wait Marv... but you just said... you practice the same every.... ugh whatever. I guess it's admittance that it is truly the coaches fault when we look like hot garbage out there. RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - yellowxdiscipline - 08-24-2017 I hope we arent discussing a preseason game as an actual wake up game. RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - GreenCornBengal - 08-24-2017 (08-24-2017, 01:44 PM)yellowxdiscipline Wrote: I hope we arent discussing a preseason game as an actual wake up game. According to Lap the, Chiefs preseason game 1 was a wake up call, and that is why they ran all over us. :andy: RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - Interceptor - 08-24-2017 They need to get rid of the snooze button. RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - BMK - 08-24-2017 "If I have to motivate you, I will fire you". Chuck Knoll, in his very first meeting with players after taking over the steelers; RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - Nately120 - 08-24-2017 (08-24-2017, 01:44 PM)yellowxdiscipline Wrote: I hope we arent discussing a preseason game as an actual wake up game. Nah, we usually have a wake-up game or five in primetime and then we have a wake-up game in the post-season. Sadly, there is nothing to be gained from that beneficial beating we get in the playoffs. RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - jason - 08-24-2017 (08-24-2017, 06:24 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Nah, we usually have a wake-up game or five in primetime and then we have a wake-up game in the post-season. Sadly, there is nothing to be gained from that beneficial beating we get in the playoffs. I'm a big fan of our Sunday 1 pm est statement games. RE: Why are 'Wake Up Call' Games Necessary for Bengals - Nately120 - 08-24-2017 (08-24-2017, 06:26 PM)jason Wrote: I'm a big fan of our Sunday 1 pm est statement games. And we can't even get THOSE right for decades at a time! |