Stripes

I dunno if medicine has advanced meaningfully for that injury in the last 14 years, but if not that’s a problem. Palmer in ‘08 was done. Granted the Bengals might have shelved him deliberately since the team was horrible.

Andy Dalton, will you please sign my breasts?

Baltimore Ravens fans wake up every morning with mud butt after the gradual leakage incited by Dalton to Green/Boyd nightmares. I remember visiting a Ravens forum once, where I saw a man voicing his outrage about the humiliation of continuously losing to the Red Rocket. Let’s give that man a little nostalgia. Who dat.

Andy Dalton, you’re a great friend, and you make lots of great touchdowns! I like your football throws! You are very red! Go get em!

I was looking at the game earlier thinking it might be a nice spot for Baltimore to lose a game. Then I remembered it’s Andy in a primetime game. If they find a way to have fun and play together, then I will be very pleased.

5-4 at the bye. Disappointing but manageable.

Yes. Good enough.

Rough rep from CTB there.

Brandon Allen time is the best time.

The Panthers are terrible, but still a decent showing today for the secondary depth.

I didn’t expect this unreasonable demand to be fulfilled by halftime.

Cool. Do it as many more times as you like.

122 first half rushing yards.

Cool. Do it one more time.

Cool. Do it two more times.

Cool. Do it three more times.

Cool. Do it four more times.

Burrow is looking a little off in pregame warmups. We’ll see if that means anything.

Same happened to me. You have a unique email generated by the site. Try entering your original username at bengalszone. Like this: volcom69@bengalszone.net I think it was .net. If not, try .com.

I've left the forums alone this week. It's understandable that the mentality isn't a positive one, but I also think it's predictable and probably misguided. They looked great against the crappy Falcons and terrible against the crappy Browns. Sometimes that's the NFL. An absolute ton of teams have ended up winning playoff games after having been 4-4. The Bengals have good enough players to join that company. So I will let them play on and see what happens. Thankfully this game should be a very informative one. Carolina shouldn't be viewed as a pushover, and they have scored some points in recent memory. But they're not as talented as this Bengals team, and they don't have the same experience overcoming adversity. So if the Bengals handle them even with their injuries, great. If they don't, then they're probably not that good anyway.

Pretty simple. Absolutely must beat Carolina and Pittsburgh to get to 6-4. Get healthier through the bye, and salvage this thing. I think tonight probably kills the division, but it doesn’t have to kill the season.

So this has been bad. That’s my analysis.

I get the impression that the gameplan without Chase is exactly the same as the gameplan with Chase. That’s probably not a good idea.

Sneak the damned ball until teams prove they can stop you.

Bengals/Browns games are always weird.