Breaking: Burfict Suspended (Again)

[George Cantstandya]

(03-19-2018, 06:47 PM)Ravage Wrote: I don't believe the conspiracy stuff either.  However, when the team couldn't stop getting themselves arrested 13 or so years ago, that wasn't just a black-eye on the team, it was a black-eye for the league as well. So why would the NFL conspire against a team that habitually employed people incapable of staying out of the police blotter? Payback for bad PR is a pretty good reason (for them at least), and Goodell is a weaselly, sad, spiteful man. 

Again I'm not saying I believe this to be the case but you asked why, that's a potential reason. Also, by virtue of them 'not really being relevant' and a small-market team with limited national following, you can bully them and not really have anyone outside the small fan-base get too upset about it. 

In the last 6 years, the Bengals have been at the lower end of arrested players. Since then teams with a higher arrest record have had success.  So why hasn't the NFL spited them for their bad PR?  I get it the Bengals have had a good degree of bad luck combined with players causing problems.  But going by this chart from the last 6 years I don't see the Broncos, Ravens, Seahawks, (all Super Bowl Champions since then) with a higher arrest record being spited by Roger over that time frame.  Or are you saying Roger holds a long term grudge?  Sorry, I don't buy it.



We need to look at the Bengals at face value. A team with a complacent owner and a coach that doesn't demand discipline and respect from his players. Until those things change the Bengals will always be mediocre, or as one article I read, seem content with serving their fans the same warmed over dish year after year.