And it's Wait Till Next Year time again...

[BengalYankee]

(02-14-2022, 04:38 AM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: The key is we must have had less issues (and obviously some luck) to almost win the superbowl. We didn't just make it, we were leading in the 4th and were very close.

It's like saying a guy running a marathon in under 2 hours is at 2 hours 3 minutes and someone else is at 6 hours, and they're going to buy new shoes and beat him. They're not that far away from us but it doesn't take MUCH between winning the superbowl or being totally out of it, each team we beat in the playoffs was by a sliver in the last second.

I think playing in the AFC-N and playing tougher games only prepares them for the Playoffs. I think the Rams saw the AFC-N come out of the Bengals and it just didn't last enough, Burrow dragged that line to a super bowl win would have almost been similar/better than LeBron dragging a bunch of scrubs to the finals, except Burrow has some exceptional teammates right now.

There is luck involved in getting and winning the superbowl, don't let anyone tell you "the bengals got lucky" in a negative connotatoin. Luck is preparation meets opportunity in the general sense, the opportunity was there, the preparation was there, the team as constructed might split 50/50 games if that superbowl was played 10 times.

I am not disagreeing with you. All I am saying is that while we have to rebuild our Oline other teams have their weakness as well and will rebuild their weakness, meanwhile our schedule will be a lot more demanding than theirs. Thus, it is not a foregone conclusion we will be back to the Superbowl annually.