09-18-2019, 08:44 AM
(09-16-2019, 06:26 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: The real travesty was the lack of fans in the stands even at 15mins in Q1
I could hear Niner fans chanting 'Defense' in our own house 4 mins into the game.
What a pathetic showing from the fans. It's not right to blame the fans, but we had a chance to start anew with something fun and exciting. Fans made it clear very quickly they want nothing to do with that.
Or maybe fans could smell the stinking pile of crap that was going to be the 2019 Bengals from a mile away after they hired a QB coach to be their HC, and he ended up having to hire his 8th or so choice for DC... and they knew they had one of the (if not the) worst OL in the league, so they threw money at Andre Smith and Bobby Hart and said "yes, this will be fine"... and then cruised along with one of the worst LB groups that caused a historically bad D last year and did nothing to fix or improve it.
There was no need for 20/20 Hindsight. It was very clear in Foresight that this team would suck, and will for forever, until it's run by competent people rather than the ones who have produced just 7 winnings seasons and 0 playoff wins in working on 29 years now and haven't drafted a single Pro Bowler in 6 years and the only one they've drafted in 8 years was Eifert who has made 5 starts the previous 3 years and is no longer a starter this year.
But sure, keep talking about the fans' "pathetic showing".
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