Steady diet of turd sandwiches.

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(01-03-2016, 10:11 PM)Beaker Wrote: The steelers lost their starting RB , threw two INTs and barely got by the browns. The pats lost to the juggernaut that is the miami dolphins. Our Bengals took the #1 seed, with the #1 D to OT in their house with our 2nd string QB. Why should we be scared?

You make sense BUT we can also go down a laundry list of reasons we SHOULD win for every game we played (except the 2014 one).  Many of us are acting like victims of perpetual spousal abuse because we are facing a situation that SHOULD be rewarding and good, but it keeps beating us into a pulp on a regular basis.

2011 - We were supposed to beat TJ Yates

2012 - We were supposed to beat the Texans since we "knew them this time"

2013 - We were supposed to beat the Chargers because we were 8-0 at home and FINALLY won the division and got to host the playoff game

2014 - I'm sure there was optimism for the 2014 game...I think I recall people saying AJ being out would force Dalton to stop forcing AJ the ball and make us better by spreading the ball around (or some crap like that).

There it is!  2014 had optimism that AJ being out was "addition by subtraction."  Anyways, you can make the most rational case for us to be optimistic, but we've been there before.  Nothing personal.  It's all good. We're just a justifiably skeptical gang.