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For me the most impressive thing was the way the Denver defense absolutely bulldozed the Panthers during the fourth quarter. I kept thinking; could the Bengals do that? Their failure to close out the game against Denver led to Denver's appearance in the SB. Sometime or other it would be fun to watch the Bengal's defense play like that at the end of a game.
The other thing is that while I like to make fun of Peyton Manning the success he's had bodes well for Andy since he's had a very similar career trajectory to Peyton's early days so far even though the two QBs have different styles.
Win or lose I'm a Bengals fan so even when some predict a 500 or worse performance and maybe dropping to third in the division I'll still be watching. The prime time collapses still hurt though.
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So...The SB is a really BIG primetime game.... There are some (obvious) problems that surface for our track-record-proven team...I really hope THAT changes. Until it does, I pretty much go in (knowing) we are going to lose those 'big-lighted' type games. Can this team win? Yup, no-doubt. Will they? Hmm...there-in-lies the challange.
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(02-09-2016, 03:53 PM)RoyleRedlegs Wrote: How does Pittsburgh clearly have our number?
It took the refs, two coaches and a broken QB for them to beat us...
They dealt us 2 losses (in our house mind you) down the stretch. Not to mention they generally own us in our own house.
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