11-26-2023, 07:17 PM
(11-26-2023, 07:03 PM)casear2727 Wrote: Every team is high with emotions and confidence in Week 1 as are the fanbases. Bad teams do not care about the last few weeks of the season prior. Trust me, Ive been a Bengals fan since the 1970's....
Besides they know they will have a healthy Burrow.*
*Knock on wood a thousand times.
We hope so, but momentum and mentality means a lot in sports. See it all the time in 'soccer', teams who end the season on a slide and just avoid relegation, tend to start the next one slowly. We'll have guys here next year who'll have played in all these losses... that's not always easy to get past, regardless of it being 'new season, new me'.
I'm not saying it'll affect this particular group, as it's not like this will have been a long stretch of futility. But we see with franchises that are good most seasons, that you don't need high end picks to be good. Far more often about the coaching and culture surrounding the team.
