01-02-2023, 01:40 AM
(01-02-2023, 01:28 AM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: Let me give you the help you obviously need:
1) I am pro-Bengals first and foremost. Anything else is a distant second.
Anything that helps the Bengals, I am gonna root for. I don't root against Pittsburgh if them winning helps us. You seem more interested in being anti-Steeler than pro-Bengal.
2) This Steelers win helps us.
We only need 1 win to clinch the division instead of 2. Having a home playoff game is big. If we win tomorrow and clinch, the Ravens are locked into #6 (if the Chargers win) or #5 (they win, LAC lose). Either way,,a road game vs KC/Buffalo/us. That last game does not mean much to them. Not much to gain. If Jackson is iffy, would you risk him? Campbell? Or just rest a ton of guys to be healthy for the PO run. I think the rest route for Baltimore becomes likely IF win win tomorrow. That Ravens game coukd get a LOT easier, which would increase our chances at the #2/#1 seed.
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If we beat the Ravens next week we win the AFCN, so regardless we only needed 1 win to clinch the AFCN. Didn't matter one bit if the Ravens beat the Steelers.
I don't look at "What if we lose scenarios" and I hope the Bengals don't either.
IF the Steelers winning would have done anything to help the Bengals I would have pulled for them, but it didn't
So you can take your "obvious", shine it up nice and shiny, turn that SOB sideways and...