Why are Playoff Wins Important? Bengals Edition

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(04-04-2019, 11:17 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Well under Mike Brown's tenure, we've been under .500 17 times.


We've been over .500 7 times. (All during Marvin's tenure as HC.) (Marvin was under .500 5 times and .500 even 3 times. So 7 winning seasons. 8 non-winning seasons.)

That's the track record for regular season.

Right, and the franchise sets the standard of success the fans hope for.  We just wanted to go 8-8 in the 90s and early 2000s and we got it.  Then we wanted to make the playoffs, then we wanted to win a playoff game.  Now we are on 3 losing seasons in a row and we are going into this season with the idea that ZT's first year will be a success if he can just win 9 games. We are back to just wanting to have a winning season...sure we want to win it all, but we will be happy with 9-7. 9-7 would be good for us, great for the Browns, and a nightmare for the Patriots. It's all relative.

Like I said in another thread, I have friends who are Steelers/Penguins/Pirates fans.  They go into football and hockey seasons with the expectations that the team should do something in the post-season and contend for a title.  When it comes to baseball they just hope the Pirates are watchable and they'd be elated to see them break .500.  Expectations.