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Annnd here we are back to the old bye week jokes. Let me start. I know it's the bye week, but somehow the defense is still going to find a way to completely fuck everything up and when trying to figure out what happened, Zac is going to say, "We have to find a way to finish, we can't have bye weeks ending like this".

Ja'Marr letting the cracks in the dam appear a little more glaring when asked "How the team can finish better" ??

Wow, I went to bed when I said I was turning off this shit, only to find they made a furious charge back into the game. Then I heard those same words uttered when learning it wasn't enough.... "They have to find a way to finish" Zac Taylor... your time is up. Please pack up your office, grab your coordinators (don't forget Pollack) and go away. This season has finally come to an end. There is no "All we have to do is go on a run" anymore. That run needed to start last night and yet again, the offense (despite it's own concerns) put up 27 points and lost. I don't care what the players are doing, the coaches need to be held accountable for this shit show of a team. The players are frustrated, yelling at each other on the sidelines and the coaches are seemingly clueless as what to do next. The only thing worse than knowing no one is getting fired is knowing that if they did, another clown show will get out of the car. I'm sick of hearing the players aren't that good as well. The coaches played a DIRECT part in those players coming to the team. It's not like shit show, half ass players just showed up and decided to put on a uniform. Someone scouted them, drafted them, brought them in and signed them as a free agent and trained them what to do. ***HINT*** That "someone" wasn't the fucking girl on the sideline squeezing Gatorade into the players mouths. Stop the talk of playoffs right now. Just stop. Oh yeah, I gave Lou another shot at believing what he could get this defense to do and what do you know, he failed again. Please just get the fuck out of here. I have no sympathy for him. NONE. FUCK YOU LOU AND ZAC TOO. That sounds like a t-shirt slogan as we head into the 2025 draft. Writing that down...

Oh my God this team is straight ass. Good night. Getting sleep instead of watching this abortion of a football team.

Ummmmm Lou ?? What didn’t you understand about the assignment for this really important game tonight ?? Uninspired defense. Making matters worse, we can’t score a TD and give up mad sacks again. Jesus they suck.

So pretty much… FUCK Bengals must win…

Time for old A-A-Ron to hang it up. If he comes back next year, it will just be sad. No when to say when. That was about two years ago.

So since we are waiting today, I’m moving on with the wild card hopes when watching other games. Rooting for: Jets over Colts Falcons over Broncos Raiders over Dolphins The Colts and Broncos are the more important of the three and of course it all means nothing if the Bengals shit the bed tonight. WHODEY !!

My reason is because Dax hasn't done anything since he's been here and has already been moved from the position he was drafted to play due to his inability to do so. Now he's on IR and contributes nothing. I'm always open to listening and am content agreeing to disagree. Neither here nor there for me. I would be nothing but happy to see pro bowl level play from Dax and will root for it to happen. It's not like I'm rooting against any of these guys. I'd be happy to see him be a solid starting nickel back next year if Hilton leaves. If a first round talent (Murphy) can't push an obviously older and slower guy (Hubbard) and take some snaps from him, that's a problem. Hubbard, while I love the dude, it clearly declining. Maybe my expectations for 1st round guys is different from others. These guys should be day one starters or at a minimum, solid contributors to the production of the team, looking to take a lead role the following year.

I didn't want to completely derail the Chargers thread, but would like to carry the conversation from there to here for further examination. I was thinking about the defense and the take on Lou (I'm not touting a side) that he simply hasn't been given dudes. I noted the misses with Dax Hill and Myles Murphy despite at that time them being "his dudes" since he played a part in them being drafted. I am left to wonder, who are his dudes on defense ?? I'm going to take a guess, while considering our upcoming 2025 free agents. DE Sam Hubbard- OLDER DUDE, whose role should transition into a backup/mentor as opposed to starter. Need a new starter. DT Sheldon Rankins- NOT A DUDE and needs to be replaced. DT BJ Hill- BIG DUDE, who is an UFA that will be 30 before the start of next season. I still want him back. We need him back. DE Trey Hendrickson- MASSIVE DUDE who wants a new deal and I think has earned it. He turns 30 in three weeks. LB Logan Wilson- DEFINTELY DUDE and won't be going anywhere. LB Germaine Pratt- DEFINTELY DUDE and isn't an UFA until 2026 when he turns 30, so he's back next year. LB Akeem Davis-Gaither- SOLID DUDE who is an UFA and turned 27 this year. I'd like to see him back as well. CB Cam Taylor Britt- SOLID DUDE maybe better. Needs to shut his mouth. Isn't a UFA until 2026 and still only 27. He's back next year. SS Vonn Bell- NO LONGER A DUDE who is an UFA and needs to be replaced. FS Geno Stone- DUDE IN CHICKS CLOTHING has been a disappointment this season in what was thought to be a great FA pick up. CB Josh Newton- YOUNG POTENTIAL DUDE. NB Mike Hilton- OLDER DUDE who's going to be 31 before next season and an UFA. Would be nice for Hill to find his fit here. DT Kris Jenkins and DT McKinnley Jackson- YOUNG POTENTIAL DUDES who haven't gotten a ton of snaps. More snaps for them both. DE Joseph Ossai and LB Joe Batchie- WANNABE DUDES and both are UFA after this season. Both are young depth. Consider extension? CB DJ Ivey, SS Jordan Battle, FS Tycen Anderson, CB DJ Turner- COULD BE DUDES, hard to say. Turner and Battle have upside. S/CB Dax Hill and DE Myles Murphy- BUST DUDES that will both be back next year. Maybe next season is THE season for them. So we have 6 players that I consider dudes (maybe more). 2 are UFA's, 1 wants a new contract, and 3 others. There are a handful of maybe's, not quite's and young guys as well. I think Lou has been given dudes when I look at the list and they simply aren't producing or have all but busted out. That being said, give him one more draft (pass rush), more free agent help (if financially possible) and hope youngsters develop. We need at least one more dynamic player to impact this defense.

Color me a hater, but I don't think the Steelers are as good as their record. Outside of them, that schedule is far from daunting. Just figure out the fucking defense LOU !!!

"A so-so bottom 80% of the roster and uninspired leadership" I cannot help but continue to focus on how huge the misses with Dax Hill and Myles Murphy have been to this team. You simply cannot have two first round guys not produce at the level expected. Especially considering they were both defensive guys. The leadership aspect becomes more and more glaring.

Ok, time to switch gears and discuss why the Bengals are a playoff team. BWAAAAAHAAAAAHAAAAAA... ok seriously, I'm doing this. I was looking at the standings and currently the Bengals are the 9th seed and only ONE game out of the last wild card seed. Let's start by giving up on any thoughts of the AFC North title right now. That just makes things less stressful. The Chargers (6-3) are the 6th seed and we play them Sunday. -They have us and the Broncos again. The Broncos (5-5) are the 7th seed and we play them on 12/29, which could be an impact game. -They have to play us, the Chargers and Colts. The Colts (4-6) are the 8th seed ahead of us due to conference win percentage. -They only have the Broncos from this group. That's my focus moving forward but it's all predicated on them winning Sunday night. If any game to this point has been a "must win" it's this one. Then we still have two against the Steelers. Outside of the Steelers, the remainder of the teams on the schedule aren't teams we can't beat. SOOOOO looking at you Lou. Want me to have faith in your ability to scheme and gets these guys to produce?? Here's your chance. If the Bengals lose Sunday, I'm packing it in for the season.

Don't even bring up Pollack. I haven't forgotten his dumb ass. He's simply out of the fray because the offense has mad firepower. I get the thoughts on Lou and why many may not point the finger at him. I'm not mad they think that way. I just look at what has been given and the high draft talent they have (with his approval) and then see the results. Lack thereof...

I get the aspect of getting him dudes but this team has used first rounds picks on CB Dax Hill and DE Myles Murphy. I’ve addressed before that those two misses are what’s killing this defense right now. Both were expected to be massive starting contributors. Neither have come close to expectations. Whose fault is that? Scouting? Doesn’t the DC have a say in who they want to draft based upon the scouting advice? I honestly don’t know but Anarumo played a part in those mistakes. In both instances I recall both of them falling to the Bengals. Multiple teams passed on them causing them to fall to us. While I didn’t necessarily have a problem with the picks at the time, but you have to wonder why they fell. Sure give Anarumo another season. It’s the Bengals. It’s what they do to a fault. I still can’t get by them not addressing the defense considering this team is somehow still in contention. They better fucking win Sunday.

Again, it's just frustrating. This team should be so much better than 4-6. I was watching the McAfee podcast from a few days ago and he listed some interest facts to ponder. There have been 2 instances in NFL history where a QB had: 30+ Completions 300+ Passing Yards 4+ TD passes Multiple 40+ Yard TD Passes No more than 1 INT ...and yet still lost. The QB in both of those historical events in the NFL was Joe Burrow in both the Ravens game this season. Let that sink in for a moment when considering how bad this defense is and why fans get so mad when all they do to address that is a couple RB's. To have other fans question you for being frustrated is the only thing more irritating than that. Make not addressing the defense make sense and I will listen. Until then Lou Anarumo should be on the street now.

I don't claim to know the inner workings of the front office for the Bengals, or any other NFL team for that matter. However, this team has too much talent to be losing this many games and in the manner they lose them. I'm sick of watching players like Bates and Higgins walk away with nothing but (hopefully) a 3rd round comp pick. What would a player like Bates do for this defense right now? He wouldn't be the solution to it all, but he sure as hell wouldn't hurt. Higgins has absolutely no reason to put himself on the line and worsen his hamstring when his $22 million is already in the bank. It's just sad watching them sit on their hands, bring in scrubs to help and then seemingly scratch their heads trying to figure it out. Many teams at least made the effort to either improve on a good thing or help their roster that is in need of talent. We signed Herbert in dire need and some other RB to the practice squad. No DE, DT, or CB in the effort to get better when clearly the defense is ass. Speaking of the defense, how does Anarumo still have a job? Where's the accountability for the underperformance of that unit as a whole? Sadly, if they did make a move, Johnny Dickbag would probably be the replacement. It's just an exceptionally frustrating season when there were such high expectations.

The Texans might have me believing it’s me… How else can you explain a team being up by 15 at the half, the defense getting 5 interceptions, and still losing ?? This is about the time of the season you tend to forget how empty the offseason is and say something stupid like, I hate football.

The Steelers beat the Commanders ?? FIRE LOU NOW !!

I don’t think Cooper Rush is all that bad. Not saying they are going to the Super Bowl, but he can win games for them. ”F” the Cowboys though…

That was Ngakoue. I said they should have signed him when he was a free agent. Just stupid.

Fire Lou now. Seriously, that’s fucking egregious.

Week 3- 33 points and lose Week 5- 38 point and lose Week 10- 34 points and lose Have we ever seen such shit? I mean from an offensive standpoint. Of course I’m excluding all of the 90’s.

When you score 30+ points in a game and lose in the NFL, that’s on the defense and those coaching the defense. We have no defense. No defense = no playoffs.

Where does this shitshow travel to next week? Out to LA against the Chargers. Whatever....