We are all being trolled by Cincinnati Sports

[*bengalfan74*]

(11-02-2019, 02:09 AM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Exactly. Championships...for lack of a better word...take a back seat to "being competitive"--being able to say "we made the playoffs 5 years in a row, that's better than X number of teams. We've won X number of games over X number of years", etc etc. 

Being able to put themselves in the company of other winning teams is held up as some kind of great accomplishment, even if those regular season wins and playoff appearances led to zero playoff wins. 

Hanging on the coat tails of other winning teams. 

We've had this discussion several times on here and several more on the mother ship. MB "wants" to win, I believe that. But like Nately puts it, he wants to win like a fat girl sitting with a gallon of ice cream and bag of Reeses cups "wants" to be a bikini model.

In other words he doesn't covet winning above all else. He doesn't put winning up on the mantle as the ultimate and only acceptable outcome. If he truly did he would have changed his ways long ago.