Bengals last 5 years.

[Shake n Blake]

(04-09-2016, 12:04 PM)Beaker Wrote: I think what fred is going for here is focusing on some of the positive instead of all of the negative. Those who only care about the playoff losses are depriving themselves of living in the moment and the joy of each individual win. You gotta realize that only one team ends the season on a win. I try to enjoy each game as it is given to me. Experiencing more wins than losses means more good than bad feelings.

I fully understand the angst over playoff losses...I experience it too. But like I said, football is cruel in that the fans of 31 teams have to end their season feeling disappointed. I want a playoff win bad also. And if they keep making the playoffs, the optimist in me realizes that sooner or later they have to make the breakthrough. Look at the boston red sox....100+ years of playoff losses before finally breaking through and winning a couple world series.

Sooner or later my friends...sooner or later. But along the way, don't forget to enjoy the wins, each one is a gift. Remember how good it felt going 8-0, remember coming back in the 4th quarter to beat the seahawks, remember William's INT of big ben to propel the Bengals to the win in PIT....those things should not all be forgotten for the lack of one playoff win.

I really respect what you're saying and there's definitely truth to it, but this situation is so frustrating (to me) because it's so unprecedented. No NFL fan base has endured what we have. 25 years with no postseason wins. 12 of those years were arguably the worst stretch of football ever by any team. 

Then we hire a guy who brings hope, who energizes the fan base and helps the team become successful again. Yet he just can't make that leap from good to great. 13 years, 4 division titles, 7 playoff appearances...yet we can't win a single game? We've had so many great teams and players and it almost feels like they've been wasted. 

We've felt rock bottom (the 90's), but we haven't yet experienced the pinnacle of success. 

Compare that to teams like the Saints and Buccaneers. They had similar stretches of failure, but they got to experience championships when they came out of their dark ages. I almost feel like the Bengals owe us a championship for what we had to deal with in the 90's. Or at least they owe us more than an era of unprecedented playoff failures.