'This is who you are'

[Murdock2420]

(10-18-2020, 11:14 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: IMO, Paul Dehner pretty much sums it up:


'You have a team that hasn’t won a road game since Green caught a last-second pass from Andy Dalton in Atlanta in September 2018. They are going through a streak of futility in one-score games like the NFL has rarely seen in a century of football.

Being “this close” is as much this team’s defining trait as Burrow being their quarterback. At a certain point, progress gives way to the fact this is who you are.

You can’t keep talking about how a group needs to learn to win. It makes you wonder if they are being properly taught how to do so.

There’s always some reason for optimism, yet always the same old stories.

Be consistent. Don’t panic. It will come.

In a vacuum, those words make sense and there are enough positives from Sunday that you can construct a reality where the Bengals are building something sustainable.

But that’s not the reality. Not when those types of losses pile up and play out in the same unrequited fashion over and over again.'

Paul has always called it like it is, really respect him as a reporter.

In all honesty, he is right. This team is what it is and is what it always has been.

I'll catch heat for this, but so be it. The Burrow pick is more of the same as it ever was. Burrow is Palmer. An extremely talented high level prospect that was brought to a shit team that thought... hey... look at this new toy, it'll sell tickets and fix everything. 

It hasn't worked here, before and won't now. We lack scouts. We lack a GM, we lack the level of commitment to winning that you see from teams like New England, New Orleans, Shittsburgh, etc, etc, 

The same old same old hasn't worked, and sadly old man Mikey isn't looking to change that story as long as the money keeps coming in.

Honestly, at this point I am just exhausted and apathetic to this team. All the yelling on a message board or on-line will change nothing. Hell, what was it two years ago a national broadcast labeled the wrong guy as Bengals' owner Mike Brown. That should have been a slap in the face wake up call to the front office, but... alas here we are again about to waste five plus years of the career of a kid who actually could be a pretty good QB with the right coaches and team around him.