(03-19-2019, 05:10 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Bengals have had very few players I would call "elite" over the last decade.  Personally I think 5......Green, Atkins, Whitworth, Eifert, and Burfict.

We only got 1 full elite season out of Eifert, and 2 out of Burfict.  I know the Bengals are not the best ran team in the league, but it really seems like we are cursed sometimes.  Almost half of the elite players we have had in the last decade had their careers ruined by injuries.

That is brutal for a team as thin as we are.

(03-19-2019, 04:37 PM)McC Wrote: But even that hit on Brown wasn't the penalty that killed us that night.  It was the Pacman penalty that did us in.  Why do people so conveniently forget that fact when they get on their soapbox?

Also, why is the need to condemn so strong as to carry over into the respect for Burfict thread?

(03-19-2019, 04:37 PM)McC Wrote: But even that hit on Brown wasn't the penalty that killed us that night.  It was the Pacman penalty that did us in.  Why do people so conveniently forget that fact when they get on their soapbox?

Also, why is the need to condemn so strong as to carry over into the respect for Burfict thread?

(03-19-2019, 06:51 PM)jason Wrote: Oh let's  not forget that a certain douchebag coach was mingling in the Bengals defensive huddle when Pacman went all Pacman... Granted, Pacman should've walked away. That's something he really seems to struggle with. When he hit that lady on video at the bar in Cincinnati, he started to walk away from her 2-3 times before letting her lure him back into the confrontation.

Then there's the fact that Martavis Bryant's TD catch really wasn't. So, you know... The Steelers needed more than a FG to win that game at that point. What a shit show... But yeah. Let's pin that loss on Vontaze Burfict. The only Bengal who stood out that night.

(03-19-2019, 06:29 PM)motoarch Wrote: I'm not forgetting that.  But if burfict doesn't make that hit then that penalty never happens right?  You can't have it both ways.  You can't say if hill never fumbles ...

And why bring it up here?  Because you have to give respect to get respect and this guy clearly didn't play with respect for anyone else of the field including his own team so why does he get a thread thanking him.  Thank him for what?  Blowing our best chance at winning a playoff game in the last 30years?  Ok then

Thanks burfict.


Happy?

(03-19-2019, 07:38 PM)McC Wrote: We can do this all day. Without Burfict, we're never even in a position to win.  Oh, right.  You conveniently forgot that. Shame it has to be in the Burfict respect thread and not one of the other ***** my head off about Burfict threads.  Some people just don't know the meaning of the word respect.  Fewer and fewer, in fact. 

And this is what you keep proving again and again about you--

"I have my opinion and I'm gonna say my piece over and over again anywhere I want and I don't care what anyone says.  Respect?  I don't believe in it. That's for chumps."  

(03-19-2019, 07:42 PM)motoarch Wrote: You clearly haven't actually read any of my post and now have now crossed the line from respectfuly discussing our difference of opinion to personaly attacking me.

I hope you reread what you just wrote and understand the irony of it.

(03-19-2019, 08:13 PM)BenZoo2 Wrote: The Pittsburgh playoff game is a perfect synopsis of his career. 

(03-19-2019, 09:49 PM)jason Wrote: Well... He already landed in Oakland. We better do some serious upgrading to the LB position, or we'll be regretting this. The guy was looking in pretty good shape... And I think that as bottom dwellers in the division, we'll be seeing him this year... Motivated and in shape.

Bench Eifert that week...

(03-19-2019, 10:34 PM)McC Wrote: He signed with them?

Also, if ever a guy had Raider written all over him, it's Burfict.  Unfortunately, it's no longer 1978.  Wonder if the target stays on his back.

Quote:Burfict was released by the Bengals on Monday, but he was on his way to Oakland to visit with the Raiders on Monday and that meeting was all it took for him to land another job. The Raiders announced that Burfict has signed with the team on Tuesday night.

(03-19-2019, 10:45 PM)bfine32 Wrote: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/03/19/raiders-sign-vontaze-burfict/




Raiders aren't on our schedule this year are they?

(03-19-2019, 10:45 PM)bfine32 Wrote: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/03/19/raiders-sign-vontaze-burfict/




Raiders aren't on our schedule this year are they?

(03-19-2019, 09:49 PM)jason Wrote: The guy was looking in pretty good shape... Motivated and in shape.

(03-20-2019, 01:57 AM)Murdock2420 Wrote: If the NFL wants headlines, that game against Oakland would be interesting for the international game since both teams are set to go this year.