09-16-2022, 05:10 PM
(09-16-2022, 03:05 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: Meh.
It's week one against a top defense after most of the starters didn't play a snap in the pre-season. Not a lot of the September Champions are around in late January(2021 Cardinals, 2020 Steelers 11-0). Just show me progress this week against the Cowboys and have an uptrend until around Thanksgiving when the league starts settling itself. Then is when they'll flick the switch and be the best team in football for the rest of the season. Again.
We'll have a pretty good idea of where Cincinnati is headed by mid-October. Once you hit week six, you have sufficient data to start accurately predicting a teams final record. By week four last season, I had Cincinnati at 11 wins and by week five, I had Cincinnati at 10 wins. It stayed pretty constant at 10 wins for the rest of the season. It only gets more solid from there.
