***SUPER BOWL LVI GameDay Thread - Rams vs Bengals***

[MileHighGrowler]

(02-14-2022, 01:24 AM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: I think this pain is necessary in some way, like the memory of this loss is needed to win a superbowl. The naivety took us almost to the end, but were we supposed to say "we have babies on this team and we won it all!". Like I know the path was very hard but in some odd way it wasn't supposed to also be "easy". Now that Burrow and others know what it takes, and how close we were, it will make us better. The path is insanely tough through the AFC-N, but that's life and that will make it sweeter in the end.

It does give a hell of a lot of hope how young the core is. And if this doesn’t motivate them to keep putting in the work this off-season, nothing will. It would have been awesome to grab it this year without the pressure, but LA mortgaged their future on winning this one and the Bengals were a few pieces short all year. It feels good to know next year should be better, even if it’s also harder.