2023 Schedule

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Preseason
Packers in Cincinnati
@Atlanta
@Washington

Week 1 09/10/2023    Sunday 1:00  at Cleveland
Week 2  09/17/2023   Sunday  1:00     Baltimore
Week 3  09/25/2023   Monday 8:15     LA Rams   (can Andrew Whitworth be Ruler of the Jungle for this game)
Week 4 10/01/2023 Sunday 1:00 at Tennessee
Week 5  10/08/2023   Sunday 4:00  at  Arizona  
Week 6   10/15/2023  Sunday  1:00      Seattle
Week 7 BYE
Week 8 10/29/2023 Sunday 4:25 at San Francisco
Week 9   11/05/2023  Sunday   8:15      Buffalo
Week 10 11/12/2023 Sunday 1:00 Houston
Week 11  11/16/2023 Thursday 8:15 at Baltimore
Week 12  11/26/2023  Sunday  1:00      Pittsburgh  *Thanksgiving weekend
Week 13  12/04/2023  Monday 8:15  at Jacksonville  
Week 14  12/10/2023 Sunday  1:00       Indianapolis
Week 15  12/17/2023  TBD   TBD      Minnesota
Week 16  12/23/2023  Saturday  4:25  at Pittsburgh NBC National Game
Week 17   12/31/2023  Sunday  4:25  at Kansas City
Week 18     1/07/2024  Sunday              Cleveland  ^ week 18 times are all tentative   also means Pitt/Bal close out the other half of AFCN

[*SHRacerX*]

Love the early MNF game. Hope theye aren't going on the road the following week, but you can almost bet they will. My guess will be at pitt, as the league wants them to remain relevant. At least the travel there would be easy.

The winning % of the road team a week after playing MNF is pathetically low, but Joe and the Boys keep bucking old trends.

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(05-11-2023, 11:05 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: Love the early MNF game.  Hope theye aren't going on the road the following week, but you can almost bet they will.  My guess will be at pitt, as the league wants them to remain relevant.  At least the travel there would be easy.  

The winning % of the road team a week after playing MNF is pathetically low, but Joe and the Boys keep bucking old trends.

With 2 night games already leaked and with the assumption that Buffalo will be a 3rd, that leaves games against the Ravens and Steelers as the other 2.  I wouldn't mind a week 4 day game against Pitt.  I hated having all 3 of our division road games in primetime last season.  

[*SHRacerX*]

(05-11-2023, 11:08 AM)pally Wrote: With 2 night games already announced and with the assumption that Buffalo will be a 3rd, that leaves games against the Ravens and Steelers as the other 2.  I wouldn't mind a week 4 day game against Pitt.  I hated having all 3 of our division road games in primetime last season.  

Me too.  And going 1-2 in those games shows not every trends has been reversed, although that Cleveland game, right after the surprise death of one of their coaches, and the first game without Chido, I take with a grain of salt.  

[Frank Booth]

Serious question, why would you want Whitworth to be the ruler of the jungle vs the Rams? So he can chat it up with his LA pals about the time they beat cincy in the super bowl? Lol

Makes no sense

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(05-11-2023, 11:24 AM)Frank Booth Wrote: Serious question, why would you want Whitworth to be the ruler of the jungle vs the Rams? So he can chat it up with his LA pals about the time they beat cincy in the super bowl? Lol

Makes no sense

Cause if he is the Ruler he can't publically root for the other side

[Frank Booth]

(05-11-2023, 11:26 AM)pally Wrote: Cause if he is the Ruler he can't publically root for the other side

Nah, honoring Whitworth vs the Rams just feels.... cucky

[Trademark]

Looks like at Cleveland week 1

[*ochocincos*]

(05-11-2023, 11:26 AM)pally Wrote: Cause if he is the Ruler he can't publically root for the other side

I can't see Whitworth agreeing to be Ruler, at least not for that game.
He wouldn't do that to the Rams.

[TecmoBengals]

Hard pass on bringing in Whitworth in conjunction with playing the Rams since he and the Rams beat the Bengals in the Super Bowl. His Bengals career can be honored in a different way.

[*ochocincos*]

I think we'll see one of the Steelers and/or Ravens games as a primetime game.
Also possibly Bills again.

[depthchart]

(05-11-2023, 11:51 AM)TecmoBengals Wrote: Hard pass on bringing in Whitworth in conjunction with playing the Rams since he and the Rams beat the Bengals in the Super Bowl. His Bengals career can be honored in a different way.

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It would be a Classy Move on the part of the Bengals to let him get Honored in front of both the Bengals and Rams players, Coaches and 

fans watching the game. The only two NFL Teams that he played for. It wouldn't surprise me if the Bengals took the High Road in this way. 

Am I Classy enough to want to do it ? Not sure. Maybe I would want Steeler fans to have to watch during one of their games.  

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(05-11-2023, 11:58 AM)ochocincos Wrote: I think we'll see one of the Steelers and/or Ravens games as a primetime game.
Also possibly Bills again.

right now the rumor is either week 9 or week 10 Sunday night.  Most likely week 9

[*bfine32*]

Sunday 1PM opener. I wonder how many more of the final four get that.

[Truck_1_0_1_]

(05-11-2023, 11:08 AM)pally Wrote: With 2 night games already leaked and with the assumption that Buffalo will be a 3rd, that leaves games against the Ravens and Steelers as the other 2.  I wouldn't mind a week 4 day game against Pitt.  I hated having all 3 of our division road games in primetime last season.

Stoolers game was at 4 (or 4:25), but I know what you meant :)

[Isaac Curtis: The Real #85]

Stupid question:

Can we review who we play next year?

6 vs our division. 3 H, 3 A, obviously. What are the other 11?

NFC West + AFC South + 3 others. Is that right? Is the 17th game home or away?

Are the 3 extras the other Div winners? Chiefs, Bills, Vikes?

[Isaac Curtis: The Real #85]

OK, I got it.

DIV + AFC South + NFC West + Chiefs, Bills, + Vikes.

Home (9): Ravens, Pitt, Browns, Colts, Texans, Seahawks, Rams, Bills, Vikes.

Away (8): Ravens, Pitt, Browns, Jags, Titans, 49ers, Cardinals, Chiefs.

[*michaelsean*]

There should be no intra-division opening day games.

[Isaac Curtis: The Real #85]

(05-11-2023, 11:58 AM)ochocincos Wrote: I think we'll see one of the Steelers and/or Ravens games as a primetime game.
Also possibly Bills again.

I think our best candidates for primetime/biggest games are/were: 

1) at Chiefs (already Wk 18 at 4:25) 
2) Bills 
3) Ravens home
4) Ravens away 
5) 49ers away 
6) Jags away (MNF Wk 13)
7) Browns home 
8) Browns away (1 pm wk 1)
9) Vikes home (1 pm Wk 15)
10) Pittsburg home 
11) Pitt away 

Would not have figured Rams at all for MNF at all. SB rematch, but they stunk last year. Still, we have 3 left? 

Bills, 49ers, Ravens would be my guesses. 

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Supposedly week 3 is a MNF double header with the other game Eagles-Bucs

If Buffalo as expected is week 9 that means our bye is likely either week 7, 8 ,10, or 11.

Buffalo is rumored to be Sunday night. So there are still 2-night games to go if we get our 5 as we expect.