07-08-2021, 01:27 PM
(07-08-2021, 01:03 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Outside of Cincinnati very few NFL fans know about "playoff victory droughts". When a team makes the playoffs they are considered a good team. Bengals got plenty of respect when they were making the playoffs 6 of 7 years. The experts often picked them to win some of those playoff games.
Yeah just my opinion/ overall feeling on the matter. Other fans/ media definitely don’t view the Bengals as a model of success. I feel like a lot of people outside of Cincinnati have viewed the Bengals as a laughing stock. I live outside Cincinnati and when talking to others they bring up how ridiculous it was to keep Marvin for that long, the epic playoff collapse vs. Pittsburgh , not showing up in the playoffs ,how dumb Burfict and Adam Jones were, the awful 90’s Bengals and the drought. The media pre draft was filled with stories of how the Bengals will ruin Joe Burrow and the ACL injury just added fuel to the fire along with not drafting Sewell. I think people will always view the Bengals as losers along with Mike Brown until they win.
