How do you feel after this win?

[Essex Johnson]

(12-23-2020, 12:35 PM)MileHighGrowler Wrote: This^  We mostly all looked at the schedule before the season started and thought 7-9 games was reasonable with the addition of Burrow and the team around him.  Then even Burrow couldn't pull off more than a couple in the first 9/10 games.  But as soon as he went down, there were so many people convinced that he would have dropped win after win the rest of the way.  No improvement to the OL, no improvement to the D, just an assumption that Burrow is a miracle worker.  

Guy is a ton of fun to watch and kept the Bengals in position where they COULD have won, but to assume that the team would have knocked out another 4 or 5 wins because Burrow was playing is based on nothing more than the hype that surrounded the offseason. 

I was hopeful with the additions on Defense and Williams and FA pick up on Oline and improvement by Jordan and addition of some of draft picks we might get to high end 9-7 low end 7-9 with Burrow but that did not work out .. we lost some close games early and we really did not complete well against Browns, Ravens and Steelers first time around.. I actually have seen improvement on the Oline and Defense a game or two before Burrow went down .. i think we might be able to pull out 1 of the last 2 games if we can get Allen back and both defense and oline continue to play better.