The season isn't over...

[Shake n Blake]

(09-26-2016, 01:06 AM)Joelist Wrote: d) Why do we never do anything scheme wise to help our receivers get even a little more open? It is aggravating to always see opposing receivers sitting in giant holes with no one anywhere around them while our receivers are always covered tight. For example, tonight versus the Bears the Cowboys used pick plays as a standard tactic with Whitten running a route designed to mask the real receiver from defenders. We NEVER do that stuff and instead just send the boys out and expect them to win their matchups.

Ugh. I've wondered the same thing for years. You almost never see one of our receivers wide open - as if the defense got completely fooled. Yet it seems to happen a few times in every non-Bengals game I watch. 

I'm not going to pretend I know why it happens, but it's definitely something I've noticed almost every season, and it's been that way for a long time. 

(09-26-2016, 01:29 AM)rfaulk34 Wrote: The last time a Bengals team won a prime time game by 14+ points, against a team with a winning record?

Thursday, Dec. 4th, 1997 against the 7-6 Tennessee Oilers. 41-14

The Corey Dillon rookie rushing record game. 

I was there. Almost 19 years ago.  

Yikes. That's sad, but I kinda expected you'd have to go back pretty far considering Marvin is lucky to win in prime time at all. Let alone comfortably against a winning team. I'm a little surprised he's NEVER done it though.

(09-26-2016, 09:10 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: Yeah, the irony of these two things occurring at the same time, right? 

But what about the team having new resolve.  A team with an attitude.  A team that will say "screw you, Goodell, we will overcome this".  I don't see any life in this team at all.  A bunch of wet firecrackers.  Duds.  Can Burfict change the entire team's attitude?  Can the coach not impact this at all without him?  

How many times can the same coach get the same players motivated to tackle a 16 game schedule after so many deflating playoff losses? I remember Jeremy Hill saying "it's now or never" last year. At some point these guys are going to lose their resolve if the end result continues to be "disappointing 1st round playoff loss".