(11-22-2021, 08:57 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: Actually kind of hope it doesn't happen.  It is harder on the WC team traveling East to play at 1pm EST.  I don't care about Prime Time games as much as a win.  

(11-21-2021, 10:24 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Yep and i'll tell you what...i'm not sure how the Tonight Show is going to work out. Who the hell is this Johnny Carson guy anyway. 

(11-22-2021, 09:16 AM)Trademark Wrote: I hope it doesn't get flexed I am going and cincinnati in december at night is miserable

(11-22-2021, 12:19 PM)grampahol Wrote: I'm still wondering who that Charlie Chaplain was.. Best movie ever made was The Kid..

(11-22-2021, 12:14 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: I'd prefer the Bengals beat an opponent at their best. Show exactly where they are. 

(11-22-2021, 01:54 PM)SHRacerX Wrote: I will take ANY and ALL advantages we can get, and having the Chargers off their normal schedule is one of them.  A small one, but I will take it.  There are no moral victories and no victory counts for more because you got them at their best.  

(11-22-2021, 02:26 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: But there is the very real ability to beat a good team at their best vs a beat up/traveling/whatever team, so when you get to the playoffs you're not a paper tiger. 

The hottest fire forges the strongest steel.

(11-22-2021, 02:29 PM)SHRacerX Wrote: Being in the AFC North, with two games against pitt, Baltimore, and Cleveland, combined with games against the Raiders, Chargers, Chiefs, Vikings, and Packers....if they make they playoffs, they will have earned it.  No way a paper tiger. 

Say the Titans beat up on a lifeless AFC South and the Colts weren't getting hot, and their non-conference opponent was the NFC East.  Fine.  Call that a paper tiger.  Not these cats.  

(11-22-2021, 02:31 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Because that worked so well in 2009 and 2011-2015?

Nah. The best teams (that win playoff games and SBs) are the teams that beat other good teams at their best. It's a litmus test that doesn't lie. 

(11-22-2021, 02:53 PM)SHRacerX Wrote: Nope.  The teams that win the Super Bowl are almost ALWAYS the healthiest teams that get hot at the right time.   

(11-22-2021, 03:22 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Look. If you want to take "any win you can get", more power to you.

I'll take wins too but i prefer ones that are against good teams that are healthy. I'm not gonna sit around hoping that they don't flex a game due to whatever, or hope we get a team that's beat up. 

All wins are not created equal and don't bother trying to argue with me that they are. 

(11-22-2021, 01:10 PM)hoosierbengal Wrote: Ha ha yes I know but I like going to games when it is cold. Side note to that…… I was at Riverfront years ago when the Falcons came to town right after a snow storm. At one point in the game snowballs began flying everywhere. I remember Andre Rison getting hit I believe in the face with a snowball at the end of a play (maybe during play) in the end zone. It’s been a while but I think it went down like that. Either way I am looking forward to the Bengals/Chargers game day or night. Who Dey!!!

(11-22-2021, 12:14 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: I'd prefer the Bengals beat an opponent at their best. Show exactly where they are. 

(11-22-2021, 03:55 PM)SHRacerX Wrote: Sorry, but I couldn't resist:

The Bengals went on the road and beat a team in the playoff hunt by 19 points.

The Browns won a game at home against a winless team with a backup QB.  

BOTH TEAMS WERE CREDITED WITH ONE WIN IN THE STANDINGS.  

(11-22-2021, 03:22 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Look. If you want to take "any win you can get", more power to you.

I'll take wins too but i prefer ones that are against good teams that are healthy. I'm not gonna sit around hoping that they don't flex a game due to whatever, or hope we get a team that's beat up. 

All wins are not created equal and don't bother trying to argue with me that they are. 

(11-22-2021, 11:23 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Tampa Bay beat Kansas City in the Super Bowl last year; while KC was playing with a makeshift Oline. Guess what the call TB:

World Champions. I'll take any win I can get

(11-22-2021, 07:45 PM)Trademark Wrote: What's your secret to keeping warm ? Lol

(11-23-2021, 10:51 AM)KillerGoose Wrote: The NFL is likely to drop the current SNF game and flex either the Bengals/Chargers or Denver/KC. Just based on the matchup, I think we will see Cincinnati/Chargers flexed.

https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1463089686734381056?t=CT26KF09eV8JDdUWQ2M6dQ&s=19