11-01-2022, 01:01 AM
(11-01-2022, 12:42 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Getting hit pretty hard now with injuries. They have to absolutely win the next two. That’s life in the NFL, and if they don’t get to the playoffs this year, most of their guys are back next year.
I was talking to another Bengals fan at the game. With Chase's injury, it's starting to make me think about the long term future, who we have to pay, and when. Because in that long term future (which is coming up "soon"), we start running out of room to pay for all of our players, so where is our window - is it now, or is it later? Because later, we won't have as much talent since we will be top heavy in salary. That chase injury could potentially kill 1 of the "free" years, or in other words, one of our only window years. After the window it's chase and burrow and whoever else can be afforded.
Only 1 team wins the super bowl, and it looks like Buffalo's year this year, but wouldn't we surprised if they don't win it. It only takes 1 bad game and they'll join the rest of us losers on the other side.
A sportscaster put it well, the eagles have a "large margin of error". It would be nice to have a large margin of error, i.e. we could make a lot of mistakes and still fumble our way to wins. We weren't like that last year and certainly not this year.
