Bengals @ Chiefs Predictions

[Shake n Blake]

(10-17-2018, 01:02 PM)HuDey Wrote: This has all the makings of a disaster for the orange and black.

1. A QB who makes plays outside the pocket

2. A top TE who can make plays down the field

3. A RB who can rip off chunks of yardage running the ball or catching passes out of the backfield

4. Prime time

5. At Arrowhead

6. They will be “woke” coming off a loss

7. I haven’t even mentioned Tyreek Hill yet

8. Tyreek Hill


Chiefs 38
Bengals 20

I can easily see our defense giving up 38, but the Chiefs defense is allowing 28.7 points, good for 27th in the league...and our offense is averaging 29.0 points, good for 6th in the league. I don't think KC holds us to 20. Not to mention we scored 34 in our only prime-time game this year. 

(10-18-2018, 02:48 PM)BengalHawk62 Wrote: Since most everyone has now started following my pessimistic lead, I'm going to back up and take a reverse-reverse stance this week.  Not so fast, my friend!  We smoke their asses.
1. We got smoked last week against our most heated and hated rival.  Who Cares?
2. Is Burfict a suspended ass-clown?  Who Cares?
3. We are down Price, Gio, Eifert...that's just on offense.  Who Cares?
4. Our defense sucks balls.  Who Cares?
5. Andy Dalton on Primetime has a crappy record.  Who Cares?
6. Marvin Lewis is our HC.  Who Cares?
7. Mike Brown is still our owner. Who Cares?

Bengals- 94

Chiefs- 31

We blow this one open in the 7th inning. Triple Crowns, Hat tricks, Grand Slams, and we have another 3 guys hitting the cycle all by the time we sing Take Me Out.  This game is going to be a rout of epic proportions. Like that movie 300, we successfully and defiantly hold off a horde of Mongols at the gates of Tripoli.  This is my For Sure, Lock it Up pick this week. 

Another one bites the dust.  We're gonna show those young whipper snapping Chefs what its like to play AFC North football. 

I'm a realist and as much as I agree with some of the negativity, I gotta reel you in on some of it.

1. We didn't get "smoked" vs the Steelers, we lost on the last play of the game. Plus we've been losing to the Steelers consistently for 16 years now, and still had some winning seasons, so I don't see how the Steelers loss should be referenced when making predictions against non-Steelers opponents.

2. Burfict is not a clown. If he were a Steeler, you wouldn't even know about 90% of the crap he does. It wouldn't be reported on/tweeted, etc. Don't let the media formulate your opinion for you.

3. ...and we've been winning without those guys. Mixon > Gio and no one thought Eifert would be healthy this year. Price needs to come back, but name a team that isn't dealing with injuries. 

4. Our defense does suck right now. Agreed. They're 23rd in points allowed. That said, we're facing a team that's 27th in points allowed.

5. Our prime-time record has little to do with Dalton. He has a 91.4 rating in his last 12 prime time games, and we're still 4-7-1 in those games. 

6. Marvin Lewis does have a terrible prime-time record. Agreed. To be fair, we're 1-0 this year though, and we played great in that one, so there is some hope.

7. If you want to blame Mike for not firing Marv, etc...fine, but I'm not sure what effect Mike Brown will have on the KC game in particular.

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I'm not making a prediction this week, just as I didn't last week. Mainly because despite this team's good performance this year, I'm aware of the team's history in prime-time and Steelers games. I will say this, though: I'm more confident in our chances against the Chiefs than the Steelers. The Chiefs always have a tendency to start hot and flame out, so they have just as many narratives to overcome as we do.

As tough as it is to stomach another L to the Steelers, our season isn't over. Far from it.