Let me handle bums of the week just this time...
The ******* Cincinnati Bengals.
Nah the Bungles reverted back to their ol' selves by the end of the game. Ridiculous play-calling on their last drive (ARIZONA HAS NO TIMEOUTS!! TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT YOU DUMB *****. GET THE 1st DOWN AND CONTROL THE GAME) and that laughable soft *** prevent defense letting them go right down the field for the FG. Of course the bonehead penalty too, oh man...LOL.
Just your latest example of a league wide plague of in-game management & situational awareness being embarrassingly atrocious. Might be at an all time low right now.
Sorry @dmxfury, but the Bengals aren't ever gonna be **** or do **** until Marvin Lewis is out of there. Lookin' downright flustered by the end of last night's game and then flabby and sick at the press conference. His tenure has provided more than enough data to prove he is what he is.
They almost had me believing this season, man. Possibly thought this might be different. NOPE...still the same squad of highly talented folk ran by dopes and all of 'em making moronic decisions when the pressure is on.
AND they've benefited more than any other team in the league this season on having great fortune and luck w/ injuries. Dudes better hope that continues and it doesn't balance itself out...
I'm beyond tired of people hyping the Bengals up every season after their usual early season success only to see them inevitably pull the same ****.
Don't wanna hear **** about these dudes any more until they actually go and prove people wrong when it counts.
/rant
Followed up byI'll keep it 100. After last week's performance + Andy Dalton's postgame response to the Red Ryder BB gun comment, I'm inherently biased against the Bengals for the duration of this season.That bugged the **** out of me and I still ain't over it. #facts #spicyHOTtake
But it ain't like I said anything outlandish. If you want to take a bigger picture view and look at their current record...cool. I'll also take a bigger picture view and look at what how Marvin Lewis coached teams routinely trip themselves up when the spotlight is on them. Reality is even with all this "Bengals are different this year" talk, they're still in the same boat until they shut everyone up in January.
Maybe we should be used to the same song & dance by now, but like I said earlier, I was lowkey thinking it might be different this time and they wouldn't commit stupid errors or mishandle a late game situation.
Notice how I didn't attack Andy today though. I had more of an issue with the coach and his/their in-game blunders.
1:23 left in the game, you're on THEIR 33, you have two timeouts left, they have NONE. You're already in FG range and control the rest of the game. You decide to chuck the ball 2 out of 3 times (stopping the clock + shaving only 20 seconds overall) and fail to pick up a 1st down that would've prevented or contained a final drive by Arizona.
And then a straight up idiotic unsportsmanlike penalty that turns a FG with a higher degree of difficulty into a chip shot for the W.
We're obviously gonna re-visit this down the line one way or another. Just keep these last 2 games in mind if the seeding and home/road doesn't go their way for the playoffs...
They just won a primetime game a few weeks back.
But when you don't point to substantial team flaws, and all you say is "primetime bengals/primetime Dalton/primetime Lewis", you don't see how that screams hot take? They're 8-2.
what if he comes to Philly and outduels Kirk twice a year?
[emoji]128553[/emoji] when they took my guy Forte and UNC out to get to the sweet 16 in 01...
But DiPoto is building the dynasty as we type
. I had tears coming down when we beat Green Bay last year. I have never cried from a lost though.
at some of the posts, north dakota boredoms, boise helicopters and
stillin729
pops going to town on the tool shed 
I remember watching the news in hawaii during that and they were interviewing these cats that paid something like $5000 a person for nose bleed seats, airfare, hotels, and everything to go watch hawaii during the sugar bowl. I would really love to see a followup interview with those guys now.I wouldnt cry because none of my teams are ever going to be in any championship games.
I felt dead inside when Hawaii lost in the Sugar Bowl, i knew Georgia was better but just the magic of that whole season. I was also hungover from NYE so it felt even worse.
Why would they change? Its like when you move from state to state... I grew up in Wisco but live in Colo now. Why on earth would I ever root for the broncos?
