2 stats for why 2024 is huge for the Bengals

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(04-22-2024, 09:07 AM)TecmoBengals Wrote: This stat was dismissed among some posters after Burrow moved to 0-1 in Super Bowl appearances. It's not a fun stat to see for us Bengals and Burrow fans, but it is reality.

Let's hope Burrow becomes the outlier.

Stats like this are fascinating because humans, by nature, try to look for patterns in life. So it makes sense that people could see that stat and decide that it has some sort of causal link to whether or not the Bengals will ever get the Super Bowl again.

But it's completely nonsensical. There's nothing about losing a Super Bowl by 3 points that could possibly cause that player to never reach the Super Bowl ever again. It's pattern seeking correlation brought on almost entirely by superstition.

Burrow may or may not ever play in a Super Bowl again.

But it will have nothing to do with the fact that he lost the first Super Bowl he appeared in.