05-11-2018, 01:35 PM
(05-10-2018, 01:12 PM)fredtoast Wrote: No one will probably believe me if I can't find the clip, but after the 2014 season when we were decimated by injuries a majority of the "experts" on CBS picked us to beat the Colts. This was after we had lost 4 playoff games in a row and just a year after the Chargers meltdown.
The national media was not as hard on the Bengals as a lot of people claim. They respected our ability to make it to the playoffs every season.
I believe you. I remember when like 5 of 8 people at PFT picked the Bengals to go to the SB or at least the AFC title game before 2016.
Like I said, I think they just got tired of giving optimistic predictions for a team that started to seem incapable of breaking through.
How many times can someone like Prisco say "look out for the Bengals" before he starts to look like a clown? He has us at 26th in his new power ranking btw.
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