01-31-2023, 10:44 PM
(01-31-2023, 10:13 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: Bottom 5? No. But they were plenty mediocre between the 80’s and the current era.
I agree, but the media doesn't talk about this franchise like it was mediocre. They talk like it was the worst franchise in the NFL or very close to it.
(01-31-2023, 10:15 PM)Nately120 Wrote: We had what, 7 one and done's over a period of 30 years? That's pretty bad, and even when we were good enough to make the playoffs we'd insantly faceplant.
True, but with most of these mediocre to bad franchises, I can cherry pick long periods of losing with little to no playoff wins.
Then a team like the Chiefs gets Reid and Mahomes, and suddenly they're a great franchise? How were the Chiefs prior to Reid any better than the Bengals?
(01-31-2023, 10:25 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Another thing is that even when we were decent in the Marvin era, we'd lose most of our prime time games and all of our playoff games, and a lot of the time it didn't seem to matter who we were playing, we'd just lose. When you are a small market team without a history of SBs from years past to bolster your image you get lost in the mix, so any time a casual crowd would watch us we'd come off as a decent team that can't even look decent when all eyes are on us.
That hurts the brand, for sure.
This is probably a huge part of it. Without the championship past, and a long bad stretch during the 90s, we have not done enough since to clear that stench. At least prior to Burrow. Marvin had a good run, but then we became a running joke for a different reason.
Still, the Cardinals have been way worse than us in every regard, and even they seem to get more respect than us. Maybe it's also partly Mike Brown and his lack of charisma?
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