2015 Preseason Game 2

[*Nately120*]

(08-19-2018, 01:33 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: Yet after both games the sky was falling regardless of the performance of the previous seasons.

The argument after the 2015 Bucs game was that we still weren't looking good in prime-time despite all out talent and success, and in 2015 we went 1-4 in prime time by beating the Browns, but losing to the Texans, Cardinals, Broncos, and Steelers.  Perhaps it was a coincidence, but we carried that issue into the regular season.

The sky is falling now because we are a team with 2 losing seasons in a row with a bad o line and a 32nd ranked offense looking very much like the same issue-laden team that looked over-matched in the past 2 years.  Yes, people overdo it when it comes to preseason freakouts, but let's not act like a franchise with decades of "Ehh...that'll do" football deserves optimism out the arse.

(08-19-2018, 01:41 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: Here is some good fun.

http://thebengalsboard.com/Forum-JUNGLE-NOISE?page=303

Those are our thoughts after the 2015 preseason game (look towards the bottom of the page). You can see many of the same reactions.

Ha, good find.  Here is what I said after that 2015 pre-season game:

(08-25-2015, 02:00 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I'd brush this off as merely pre-season had the errors exhibited not been exceedingly representative of this team's real-game failings.  Furthermore, if the Steelers looked this bad in a prime-time pre-season game we'd be predicting a 5-11 season for them.

and I also said this:

(08-25-2015, 02:32 PM)Nately120 Wrote: In all fairness I don't think I was one to be too high, nor too low on this team.  

AJ is a very good WR who made a costly error
Dalton looked pretty lousy
Gio was ok-ish
I always point out that people like to extrapolate Hill's YPA and TDs to some ludicrously productive season while failing to extrapolate his fumbles into something downright scary
I personally said Eifert being "uncoverable" made me think our defense was suspect (and the Bucs sort of proved it for now)
I thought our o-line was supposed to be good, but last night?  Ouch
Geurnurtherurr is too vanilla...promoting from within does not give me visions of awesome

Anywho, I would like to aim a quote from Elton John at the Bengals:  Baby you're crazy if you think that you can fool me, because I've seen that movie, too.

OH and the worst part was watching AJ McCarron simply refuse to throw the football.  What the fudge?

Oh man, I somewhat predicted the Hill meltdown! I was wrong about Eifert, though. I came around mid-season and bought his jersey and then he got injured and hasn't been the same since.