04-26-2017, 11:37 AM
(04-26-2017, 10:46 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Yup
Name me a team that starts off the season saying "we just wanna have a good regular season and go one n done in the playoffs". It's just spin to keep an argument going.
Making the playoffs at 10-6 or whatever and going 1 and done is obviously better than going 3-13. But there's a small window typically to go from that good team that just makes the playoffs to a great team with a few deep playoff runs and a Super Bowl title or two.
I'm very afraid our window is on the down swing and in typical Mike Brown fashion he's going to stick with what hasn't worked for 26 years, keep rolling with Marvin and soon it will be gone again.
Mike has never learned the NFL stands for Now, Forget Later. This fascination with 4th round comp picks is a pipe dream. At some point you have to stop "building for the future" and just do it.
And that's the mentality of a lot of fans...atleast we're not 3-13 or 4-12 like we were through the entire 90's.
The expectations are extremely low amount the fanbase. In towns like Pittsburgh and New England...they talk Super Bowls EVERY year.
In Cincy...we talk about winning 1 playoff game and come up with excuses why we haven't for 26 years. (Injuries, bad matchups, bad luck, slick footballs, etc.)
