(10-18-2020, 05:50 PM)Trademark Wrote: Another year comes and goes and another lost season. After today the Bengals find themselves at 1-4-1. Honestly looking at the schedule I don't see this team winning another game after today's debacle. Who dey gonna beat them Bengals? Everybody. All we know is pain, this city is cursed

(10-18-2020, 05:53 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: Have you seen the division standings? It was already over... honestly there wasn’t anything good coming from this season other than experience for Burrow/Higgins/Wilson and a decent draft position.

(10-18-2020, 05:50 PM)Trademark Wrote: Another year comes and goes and another lost season. After today the Bengals find themselves at 1-4-1. Honestly looking at the schedule I don't see this team winning another game after today's debacle. Who dey gonna beat them Bengals? Everybody. All we know is pain, this city is cursed

(10-18-2020, 05:55 PM)Sled21 Wrote: This is a growing season for a rookie QB and his supporting squad of young players. You can take it for what it is and have fun watching something special grow.... or you can piss and moan. 

(10-18-2020, 05:55 PM)Sled21 Wrote: This is a growing season for a rookie QB and his supporting squad of young players. You can take it for what it is and have fun watching something special grow.... or you can piss and moan. 

(10-18-2020, 06:50 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: To be fair, I'd say around 90% of this board had them finishing at somewhere between 7-9 wins, when predictions came before the season.

I read countless threads about how much talent we had, and why we should be vastly improved.  (Burrow, great draft, getting Jonah and AJ back, free agency, etc.)

I also read quite a bit about how the Steelers were done, how the Browns were the Browns, and how the Ravens would take a step back as the league would figure out their offense.  (Fwiw, the Steelers are 5-0, the Ravens are 5-1, and the Browns are 4-2.)

So I think it's completly fair for fans to be incredibly disappointed.  Almost all of us had higher expectations than what we're currently seeing.

At what point is it fair to demand more?  We're most likely headed for 5th straight losing season, in a league built on parity and almost immediate rebuilds.  Our new coach is now 3-18-1.  This after inheriting a 6-10 team, getting back-to-back extremely enviable draft positions, and spending a fortune in free agency.

To each their own, but painting this season as a growing year seems to be a cop-out.  While no on expected a Superbowl, or even the playoffs, they certainly expected better than this.

There's a big difference between what you're describing and flat out sucking.  A nice "growing season", in a year with a lot of new faces, is usually going to result in actual growth.  You know, improving.  And it most likely looks like the 6-9 wins I mentioned were predicted earlier.

This isn't a growing season, it's an embarrassment.

(10-18-2020, 05:50 PM)Trademark Wrote: .....Honestly looking at the schedule I don't see this team winning another game after today's debacle.....

(10-18-2020, 07:35 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Honestly, I feel bad for the fans who came into this season expecting to contend for the playoffs or better. They literally set themselves up for disappointment. It just wasn't in the cards and it never was going to be with a rookie QB and an extremely young team. I would be lying if it wasn't in the back of my mind that 2011 happened in similar circumstances but to expect that would have been insane.

I've found this season to be everything I wanted and expected it to be. Burrow looks better than I expected. Higgins, Boyd and Mixon look like the future of this offense. Hell, even the defense has looked really good at times. I'm loving this season and I feel bad for the people who can watch this young team grow and be sad about it or not see it for what it is.

(10-18-2020, 07:35 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Honestly, I feel bad for the fans who came into this season expecting to contend for the playoffs or better.