'This is who you are'

[*SHRacerX*]

(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.'

The problem is there is STILL no accountability.   Tons of excuses:  young team, injuries, COVID offseason, blah, blah, blah...EVERY TEAM has those issues, but some teams demand excellence and preparation, while the Bengals just keep saying "we will get better".  When?  And what is your plan to get better?  

You praise your line of turds that is getting your young QB killed all offseason, arrogantly claiming that we have the people and our scheme can get it done.  All coaches are egomaniacs, but what are you basing YOUR ego on?  Not being dead last in every catagory?  Props to you.  

Each game, you can count on (at least) one group shitting the bed.  One week it is the offense.  One week it is the defense.  Special teams is usually consistently good, and frankly, Simmons should be our HC.  He is the ONLY coach that has demonstrated he can be successful with whatever players you give him.