(09-12-2023, 09:35 PM)BengalsBong Wrote: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."

Not sure who quoted that the first time, but Albert Einstein used that quote, and he was a pretty smart guy.

Quote:A favorite of politicians (and pretty much everybody else), this quote has been wrongly attributed to Benjamin Franklin as well as—but there’s no evidence either of them said it. “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein,” an authoritative complication of his most memorable utterances, identified the quote as a misattribution, and mentioned its use in the 1983 novel “Sudden Death” by Rita Mae Brown. On his website, Quote Investigator, O’Toole traced, the link between insanity and repetition back to at least the 19th century, but noted its use in a Narcotics Anonymous pamphlet as well as novels (including Brown’s), TV shows and various other sources.

Quote:Albert Einstein often gets the credit for this saying, but you probably won’t be surprised to learn that he never actually said it. This misattributed quotation has been well documented: it appears to have originated around 1980 in literature published by Narcotics Anonymous (Becker; “Insanity”).

(09-12-2023, 10:28 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Not so fun fact: Burrow's 4 lowest passer ratings have all come in September in the first 2 games of the season. He's had a stinker at the beginning of every season.

(09-12-2023, 10:30 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: Prefer no stinkers at all but I guess September is better than January.

(09-12-2023, 10:38 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Of course. It just seems like a very fixable problem. He's missed all or most of every preseason, hasn't he? We've got to have him around somehow next year. Getting home field is very difficult, and starting the season off by shaking off rust every year isn't helping.

(09-12-2023, 10:28 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Not so fun fact: Burrow's 4 lowest passer ratings have all come in September in the first 2 games of the season. He's had a stinker at the beginning of every season.

(09-11-2023, 10:03 AM)Nately120 Wrote: Actually, don't we play as well if not better on the road in the playoffs?  Winning the division may not even be nearly as important as it should be.  There may not be a huge difference between going 14-3 and being the #1 seed or going 9-8 and being the 7th seed.

(09-12-2023, 10:53 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: You would think by sheer odds he’ll get a normal offseason at some point.

(09-11-2023, 08:30 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: The idea that Zac Taylor's teams are going to stumble out of the gate each season?  I mean as a fan it is rather annoying to see a so-called championship caliber team's offense playing like they all just met each other for the first time, but they'll improve, right?

(09-12-2023, 11:51 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: I’m honestly fine with it.

I’d rather get to the starting line healthy.

If stumbling out of the gate in September means we are a force to be reckoned with in December, January, and February. I’d sign up.

(09-13-2023, 10:19 AM)Marlon23 Wrote: Zac Taylor is a great coach and he is going to be around for a very long time.  He may have known more about Burrow's ability last week than we know.  Therefore the plays that were ran were to accommodate Burrows ability. 

(09-12-2023, 10:28 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Not so fun fact: Burrow's 4 lowest passer ratings have all come in September in the first 2 games of the season. He's had a stinker at the beginning of every season.

(09-12-2023, 10:38 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Of course. It just seems like a very fixable problem. He's missed all or most of every preseason, hasn't he? We've got to have him around somehow next year. Getting home field is very difficult, and starting the season off by shaking off rust every year isn't helping.

(09-11-2023, 10:02 AM)jj22 Wrote: What we saw out of Burrow was alarming. For one, we never even thought he could have a game like that. Even when imagining what his worse game would look like.

We've never saw that before.

Recovering from injury or not, we've never saw that. That was something different then the typical slow start.

That kind of stat line and performance will cause an asterisk to his end of year stats, as they likely won't recover.

Yall thought last year trying to dismiss game 1 to show how good of a season Burrow had was necessary. This year will be the same at the end of the year as he won't be leading the league or top 5 in any QB category after a game like that.

(09-14-2023, 12:05 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: The only reason that is incorrect is that you only need 1 outlier in the positive to balance the 2 games out, to make it a wash. Then when you take the median, it's not skewed in the negative. That kind of thing is more realistic in college football with the playoffs, but it's more likely Burrow has at least one game this year with ridiculously high numbers to negate how bad week 1 was. 

Late season clunkers are the things that start to knock MVP numbers down.

(09-11-2023, 10:13 AM)KillerGoose Wrote: There was a conversation in a thread somewhere here last week about Burrow being a slow starter. There were a few posters that blew it off, but it is true. It isn't completely his fault as he always has something that limits his camp availability - COVID, knee injury, appendectomy, calf injury - but Burrow historically does not play well to open the season. On a team that lives or dies by its QB, that also means the team will be a slow starter.

I am not super concerned by his inability to throw the ball yesterday, though it is strange. He has been able to play in the rain before, but I am willing to chalk that up to some strange one off. I am more concerned about the fact that he did not seem completely healthy yesterday.