12-29-2023, 06:44 AM
(12-28-2023, 08:07 PM)TKUHL Wrote: Not sure what happen this season to give you such high hopes. We can’t beat the Browns with a healthy Burrow, and still can’t beat their 4th string QB. The way I’m looking at it, if we can’t get one lousy win in our division, we definitely don’t belong in the play offs.
Well, that says it all. Teams that can't win a division game have no business in the play-offs.
So Ok, now I know. Bengals lost all division games in 1993 and 2002, two of the worst NFL teams to ever take the field. I don't think 2023 Bengals are as bad as them, just that Burrow and Higgins injured most of the season hurt. I give Bengals credit for winning 3 games with Browning. However Steelers threw a zone defense that Browning never saw in college. It was almost the 1970's Steelers umbrella zone defense. Stuff the run, sack the QB, umbrella zone coverage of Steel Curtain 1970's Steeler dynasty years. Browning was completely confused by it. However had Chase played, and got in single coverage in that zone defense, Chase would have had a big day....I can sum up 2023 very easy. Burrow, Higgins and Chase injured too much. When this team was healthy they beat 49ers and Bllls and looked like The Super Bowl Bengals....This was not the awful 1993 or 2002 Bengals.
1968 Bengal Fan