11-11-2021, 01:00 PM
(11-10-2021, 11:17 PM)samhain Wrote: I have about as much of an idea of what this team is right now at midseason as I did before the Minnesota game. I wouldn't be surprised to see them win 11. I wouldn't be surprised to see them go in the toilet and only get 7.
The Raiders game should be pretty telling. It's winnable bought also not to be taken lightly. If they can't go to Vegas and win, things are going to start getting pretty bleak. Pittsburgh is scrapping right now and won't be an easy out. I see the two games as games the Bengals have to win to keep hope of a playoff birth alive in any realistic way.
I think that if health is decent, a 7 win team warrants a firing of Anarumo for sure, and maybe even Zac. There's no way you keep a guy like that when the team has shown what it's capable of a few times and can't replicate it consistently. The ship has to be righted and Zac needs to prove that he's capable of bringing them back from the disasters of the last 2 weeks.
Agreed. If this team loses both games, then I believe it to be over as far as any playoff aspirations are concerned. At 5-6, we'd probably need to climb over five or so teams to reach that 7th seed, a herculean task given there would still be games against a Ratbird team looking for payback, at oxygen-deprived Denver (where it rarely goes well, 2017 notwithstanding), and up at the Factory of Sadness in January in weather more suitable for traversing ice flows to grab a seal.
It all comes down to the next two.
