09-03-2018, 02:26 PM
This team is going into the season with very few health issues and (by all accounts) an improved roster talent-wise. It may not be a championship roster, but it's better than last year's. On top of that, there's an actual plan in place on offense. Inexplicably, there apparently wasn't one at this time last season. That's also big.
An honest assessment of Andy Dalton will show that when he has weapons around him, he can put up MVP caliber numbers. Eifert
is healthy, Ross is looking more like a top 10 draft pick. The running back stable is fairly stacked even if the line they run behind is not. The defensive line is among the best in the league and the starters in the secondary are solid to very good.
Cleveland is bad. Hue looks like a weak coach who's days are numbered. They still have yet to prove that anything has changed. Baltimore is a team that's likely about to go through a quarterback change. They have a nobody at running back and a bunch of old WRs, same as almost every year lately. Pittsburgh looks loaded but undisciplined. Who knows what Bell is going to do? Ben is whiner and his act continues as he ages. His time is nearing. Their coach, frankly, sucks. He gets embarrassed regularly by every rival other than the Bengals. Their scariest attributes are their o-line and pass rush. I feel like the Jacksonville game may have broken their spirit in a bigger way than we expect.
I'm not expecting it, but I think the Bengals can win the North. People like to crap on the Marvin decision, but at the end of the day, it's still a roster with a lot of talent that did a lot to address it's issues.
An honest assessment of Andy Dalton will show that when he has weapons around him, he can put up MVP caliber numbers. Eifert
is healthy, Ross is looking more like a top 10 draft pick. The running back stable is fairly stacked even if the line they run behind is not. The defensive line is among the best in the league and the starters in the secondary are solid to very good.
Cleveland is bad. Hue looks like a weak coach who's days are numbered. They still have yet to prove that anything has changed. Baltimore is a team that's likely about to go through a quarterback change. They have a nobody at running back and a bunch of old WRs, same as almost every year lately. Pittsburgh looks loaded but undisciplined. Who knows what Bell is going to do? Ben is whiner and his act continues as he ages. His time is nearing. Their coach, frankly, sucks. He gets embarrassed regularly by every rival other than the Bengals. Their scariest attributes are their o-line and pass rush. I feel like the Jacksonville game may have broken their spirit in a bigger way than we expect.
I'm not expecting it, but I think the Bengals can win the North. People like to crap on the Marvin decision, but at the end of the day, it's still a roster with a lot of talent that did a lot to address it's issues.
