09-24-2024, 12:40 AM
(09-24-2024, 12:29 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I think that is the clear point we can point at as when we jumped the shark. Our team got too enamored with sniffing their own farts, lost our edge, and lost sight that we have to keep getting better every year or we will get worse. Don't need to get work in the preseason because week 1 and 2 are pointless, we will still make the playoffs and we don't need home playoff games because we can win in the road. As of the playoffs are just automatically granted to you because you think you deserve it.
2 year window of enjoyment and now it is closed because of arrogance.
(Forgive me a bit of a rant thread, I normally don't do this but this loss really kills whatever excitement I had left for this year.)
i'm guessing many of us older fans saw this coming. the window closed for sure last year when glass joe went down. meanwhile as we also see every year. the steelers doing what the steelers do. and history continues to repeat itself. as bengals fans we live in groundhog day perpetually.
