Bengals Not Focused On Winning

[kevin]

(09-09-2024, 09:50 AM)ochocincos Wrote: Allen Iverson and Armon Binns would disagree with this statement lol.

Iverson was notorious for not going hard during practices but he showed up in games.
Binns was a practice darling who never actually amounted to anything in real games.

So no, you can be good in practice when you don't have as much to worry about but bad when it matters because the mental gets to you and you're getting fully hit rather than practice hit from a teammate.
On the flip side, some dudes have the ability to turn it on for games and don't really need the practice.

Bengals are not the latter lol.

That's a real stretch to use NBA Allen Iverson as a reason why Bengals don't have to practice hard.  And how do we know Bengals didn't practice hard ?  Look at preseason games, players taking off practices and how none of the team was ready to play Week One.   Most coaches say you are as good as you practice, which is why The Bengals looked like The Bungles in Week One. 

Plus in Iverson, you can have good basketball or baseball All-Star Games.  You can not have good football All-Star games, because the team work takes time and practice. It's easy for some to blame just Burrow, but the blocking, tackling, running, catching wasn't there,  Some plays it looked like day one of being handed the playbook, and nobody on the same page.   Basketball and Baseball are games some individuals can show up and play, but Football is a team concept and in great detail playbooks, and so Football takes practice, which The Bengals showed they lacked in Week One. 

The Bengals need to hit the old dusty trail and be put through some good practices, or they can lose every game.