(12-08-2021, 06:10 PM)Awful Llama Wrote: No, I was at the Chargers game and not in the gameday thread.  And, I have no clue what this response has to do with my comment about tempering my expectations, which is what you were replying to. 

I have stated on both this board and (more so) back on the mothership that I find the B-word reprehensible. I explained then, and even just yesterday (it may have even been to you), why I feel that way.  But that fell on deaf ears and the usage continued, so I stopped haranguing people about that. 

I'll be at the 49ers game Sunday and not in the gameday thread, so if you want to take up the mantle and tilt at that particular windmill, please be my guest.   

(12-08-2021, 02:49 PM)jason Wrote: Do we even have that many 30 year olds?

(12-08-2021, 02:12 PM)Tomkat Wrote: . . . it was a response to a post that was directly addressed to me.
It's not like I just responded out of the blue.

Quote:You want to hang your hat on THESE coaches and players just like we did in 2005 and 2015?

(12-08-2021, 01:15 PM)bengalguy71 Wrote: You want to hang your hat on THESE coaches and players just like we did in 2005 and 2015?

(12-09-2021, 10:36 AM)bengalguy71 Wrote: I saw your posts in BOTH Browns and Chargers game day threads!  Would you like me to paste them here to prove your forgetfulness?

Dance around it if you'd like, but you called me out for using it, I responded and called you out, making reference to the 20+ times it was used in the Browns game day thread and got suspended for calling you out in response.  

Just calling out the double standards that's all AL.

Quote:Glad to see there will be no rain today, sitting in that is miserable.

Everyone have a good day and enjoy the game.

Quote:You can use it as a verb, just not as a proper noun.  

Quote:Mine is but a mere suggestion and not legally binding.

I won't use that word because it was the parlance of that idiot Stealer announcer Myron Cope, who looked like a weasel and sounded like a shrill Grandpa Munster.  No true Bengal fan would ever use that term, to my way of thinking.  Others clearly disagree.

(12-07-2021, 04:51 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I know every team has injuries, but we got killed by multiple injuries in three crucial areas, DT, DB, O-line.  We lost our top 3 DTs.  Every single one of our top three CBs missed multiple game.  We started 11 different guys on our O-line in something like ten different combinations.  

As much as I rip on Taylor I realize no coach would have had much success with these problems.  Good teams have better guys at #2, but we were playing third string guys and no one in the league has good players that deep on the roster.

(12-09-2021, 11:09 AM)Tomkat Wrote: Ummmm, that's literally asking ME the direct question - "do I want to hang my hat..." etc.
There's no need to go back-and-forth over this.  Just know that when you use the word "you" and the sentence ends with "?"
that means you're expecting an answer/reply. 

(12-09-2021, 11:50 AM)Awful Llama Wrote: As I said before, I admitted I was in the Browns gameday thread, but when you kept insisting I was in the Charger gameday thread, I went back to see what was posted since I was at the game and I knew I wasn't posting during the game.  You were right, I did post, at 8:43 Sunday morning.  It's post #4, and for the record, no one had used the B-word by that point:


Your second point says I called you out for using the B-word.  I didn't recall scolding you or anyone else, but I know we did have a discussion about that.  The first instance of me referring to that occurred in the "Will the real Bengals please stand up" thread.  In your post #69, you told Sunset that you thought using the B-word was punishable in the CoC, to which I replied:


Maybe this is where I made a mistake.  See, there is nothing in the Coc about using it as a verb as opposed to a proper noun.  That was just a little joke on my part.  Maybe I should have inserted a   or something.  Anyway, as I'm now learning, this is where you believe I "scolded" you for use of that word.

Anyway, in your post #72 you then ask if members were "scolded" for 20+posts using the b-word in the Chargers gameday thread.  Now, at this point, I missed your inference to me not scolding people for using it, and further I was not aware that you believe I was scolding you.  To the contrary, I thought we were just having a convo about people using that word in general, so I expounded a bit on why I feel that way I do about the usage of that word:



So, please allow me to clear up a few things. 

1) I will not personally scold you or anyone else for using that word.  If in fact, if you used that word, I was not aware at the time that you did.  I used to care about that many years ago, but people kept using it and I just gave up.  The closest I'll come to admonishing anyone is what I said in my quote directly above.  But, I won't even do that going forward since this will be my last post on the topic.  So, bottom line, you or anyone else can use it all you want but I won't call you or anyone else out personally in a thread.  

2) In my reply "You can use it as a verb, just not as a proper noun," it was certainly not my intent to scold you, as I explained above.  However, since that might not have been entirely clear, I apologize.  

Hopefully my explanation above has cleared up any miscommunication between you and you'll accept my sincere apology for said miscommunication and no further discourse will be necessary.

(12-09-2021, 12:05 PM)Tony Wrote: It's just a word... It's really not that big of a deal.. Reminds me of Beavis and Butthead everytime I hear it... Lol .. Shutup, Bunghole!

(12-07-2021, 04:00 PM)Tomkat Wrote: But wasn't 2020 pretty much a "throw-away" year with Covid and then Burrow's knee injury?

(12-10-2021, 10:50 PM)t3r3e3 Wrote: It became a throwaway year when the Bengals kept trotting out their franchise QB behind the league’s worst line and throwing it 35 times a game. The Front Office wasted 2020.

(12-07-2021, 03:54 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: I’m with Fred on this.  Marvin Lewis went 11-5 in his third season while Carson Palmer was in his second season.  Don’t forget the Bengals drafted Carson in 2003 but he sat behind Jon Kitna his entire rookie year.  Did that make Carson more successful in 2004 and 2005?  Oh yes it did!

(12-07-2021, 03:54 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: I’m with Fred on this.  Marvin Lewis went 11-5 in his third season while Carson Palmer was in his second season.  Don’t forget the Bengals drafted Carson in 2003 but he sat behind Jon Kitna his entire rookie year.  Did that make Carson more successful in 2004 and 2005?  Oh yes it did!

(12-10-2021, 11:59 PM)Go Cards Wrote: Agree and it also helped having a veteran QB mind to mentor him and had to be beneficial as well. 

Wouldn't mind signing Dalton next year as a mentor to Burrow.

 Or another seasoned vet

(12-11-2021, 12:20 AM)jason Wrote: You think Dalton would wanna come back and play for Taylor again? I don't. Time heals all, but quite frankly the fans were never all that great to him, and Zac handled the situation with Andy about as poorly as it could've been handled.

(12-10-2021, 11:59 PM)Go Cards Wrote: Agree and it also helped having a veteran QB mind to mentor him and had to be beneficial as well. 

Wouldn't mind signing Dalton next year as a mentor to Burrow.

 Or another seasoned vet

(12-11-2021, 02:07 PM)Tony Wrote: Hell no... I never wanna see the red BB gun in a Bengals uniform again. Burrow doesn't need him, He's already better than Andy ever was..