01-07-2016, 09:40 AM
(01-06-2016, 11:00 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Bah, you optimists are driving me nuts.
+ Our team is THE MOST TALENTED in the NFL!
+ Marvin is so awesome he RESURRECTED this franchise!
+ Our coordinators are SO AWESOME that they are becoming playoff-bound HCs!
+ We are A++++ on draft day!
+ We avoid over-priced FA's!
+ Our QB is a true leader and full of swaggerful swagger!
+ We draw playoff matchups that are favorable because we are going to be MAD or HYPED or playing in the same city we last won in, or we're home and went 8-0 at home and blah blah blah!!!!
+ MARVIN IS A GM!!!!
+ Mike Brown was executive of THE YEAR!!!
+ Duke Tobin is GOD
So why oh WHY are we 0-6 in the playoffs since Marvin placed this franchise on his back and pulled it up the steep, muddy hill that is the NFL? Are we cursed? Is it magic? Do we go into the playoffs ever year with our starting QB on a slab? I honestly don't know. I need someone who thinks this organization walks on water and SHOULD be lauded as the cream of the NFL by every expert and naysayer to show me the light.
Something, SOMETHING must be wrong for us to go 0-4. Let's just say Carson Palmer is a quitter who throws 17 pick sixes per game and he single-handedly made 2003-2010 into evidence we "CAN'T" win in the playoffs...so now what is it?
IMHO, I think the reason the Bengals are 0-6 under ML in the playoffs is mental toughness. This year, with AD as our QB, we had that mental toughness.
Right now, though, I'm not so sure. Of course the players and coaches publically support AJM ... how could they not? But in reality, how confident can the players really be? We played poorly against the Squealers in week 14 and lost. Sure, it was AJM's first action in a real game ... but we still lost.
The Bengals have more overall talent than the Squealers ... but do we have the WILL to win? In order to win playoff games, the will has to be greater than the skill.
We'll all know the answer late Saturday night. GO BENGALS !!!
