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Burton cut. Hendrickson surgeried and unlikely to play for us again. Tee back in concussion protocol. Zac Taylor repeatedly mistaken for a shift manager at an Enterprise Car Rental counter. This team is leaking oil.

Then TJ would be going, “hey idiot, that is just a bucket of shit in a bengal jersey, I’m calling it now, BUST!!”

I absolutely cannot help myself. When the bengals play I just find myself watching and rooting for them. Same way with draft picks. Mike could take a shit in a bucket, draft it in the 4th round, throw a bengal jersey on it and I’d be like, “how’d the rest of the league let this dude slide to the 4th? Complete steal of the draft!”

Agreed but with one caveat: if they miss the playoffs next year, they’ll move on somehow. 4 years of not making the playoffs while having Burrow, Chase, and Tee in their primes? Even Mike can’t look past that.

Agreed. He’s just not a complete head coach. Came up as a prodigy QB whisperer or whatever the Brown family thought he was, and he has stayed in that role. Seems completely immersed in the offense, a resource rich offense at that, but seems incapable of building a defense. Correction, seems incapable of rebuilding a defense after we let the heart of our Super Bowl D, Bates and Reader, get away in FA. I like Zac, seems like a really good guy. But when I see him perusing that Denny’s menu looking for a play, I always kind of think, “How’d that junior high substitute PE teacher end up on our sideline?”

Josh Allen will destroy you if you go nuts trying to sack him. Just have to do the containment rush, keep him boxed in and hope his receivers fall down or something. That inside rush that lead to his soul-crushing touchdown run was ill advised, at best.

Tee’s grey matter is taking a beating. Dude sells out to make every catch, but those instances where he lands on his back and the back of his head gets the whiplash effect, wham right into the turf - disturbing.

Mike Pereira corrected us - touching the man or the ball touches him down.

Tee Higgins is a weapon. After the score the network went to an ad playing “My Way” by Limpbizkit. I have no idea why.

Our guy didn’t touch theirvrb down, he hit the ball. We got robbed.

Hey that was a fumble.

Our defensive guys are being treated for tight end blindness, but these things take time.

Holy shit. What a drive. Great run game. Tee was great.

I wonder if we have any running plays outside of the tackles.

Holy shit they had Perine dead to rights and he somehow got the first.

Tee Higgins is a straight up weapon.

Creamy parm pizza at Donatos, they just advertised it here on the pre game. I’m all over it. Just had a ct scan on my heart this morning, IDGAF.

Notre Dame just got hosed in the playoff selection. John a conference, you can then earn your way in.

This snow-covered field is a wild card I hadn’t expected. Possibly it will slow their great running back?

Now it is announced Burton didn’t travel because he is suspended by the bengals for one game.

The New Highmark Stadium, opening next season: outdoor stadium, but has a canopy that covers a lot of seats. Has radiant heat in concourses and some seating areas so drunk people who jump off portajohns onto tables hopefully won’t freeze to death once they go into the game. 850 million dollars in taxpayer money going towards building the new stadium. People who cover such things say it’s one of the worst stadium taxpayer swindle jobs in the recent stadium era. Mike Brown taking careful notes on scrap paper that started its life as the July, 1997, issue of “Sock Garter Collector’s Monthly.”

You are correct, the Brown family hopefully learned their lesson.

Loved it. Chuggerman wasted that McMansion accidentally, but I’d give him a medal for doing it anyway.

High winds are an issue. Could cause trouble for our downfield passing game. The Bills looked great running the ball against Trashburg, so if the weather pushes both teams towards the running game, I don’t like it.

Using the TJ Watt contract as a straw man, pretending that I somehow endorsed that specific contract, is a deflection. If you really don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ll give you one example (though there are many, many, others). When idiot Trey Hendrickson tried to push for a trade, personnel guys from other teams complained about how difficult it was to even get in touch with the right person in Cincy to discuss a trade. What follows is the whole of a Sports Illustrated article from September 4th of this year. This article does a better job than I can of describing the lessons I’m hoping the bengals can learn from this moronic raise they gave a player who has spent the last 3 off seasons antagonizing and being the absolute opposite of a leader. Pretty much matching the Bengals front office step for step - antagonistic and lacking leadership. (I tried to insert the link but Bengalszone says I’m too stupid, that I should go back to school for a few semesters before I’ll be allowed to insert links): “First it was the players in the annual NFLPA survey. Now it's the agents across the league who are excoriating Cincinnati Bengals ownership and management. The Bengals are the most unstable franchise in the NFL, according to an annual survey of NFL agents. Veteran Washington Commanders reporter Ben Stadig published his seventh annual NFL agent survey, which compiled candid, anonymous responses to questions about the Jerry Jones-Micah Parsons spat, Shedeur Sanders’ slide in the draft and the best and worst organizations. On the latter, the Bengals received 23 percent of the votes being the most unstable franchise in the league. Standig surveyed 24 agents, and the Bengals received 5.5 votes, followed by the Dallas Cowboys (3.5), Cleveland Browns (3), Carolina Panthers (3), Chicago Bears (2) and Jacksonville Jaguars (2). “There is always some kind of issue there and not much accountability,” one agent wrote. “This offseason, the contract negotiation for Trey Hendrickson and the language in the contract of their first-round pick are great examples. Every agent knows what’s coming.” The standoffs with Hendrickson and first-round pick Shemar Stewart made for lead segment fodder across the NFL landscape this offseason. “Mom and pop ownership,” another agent responded. “In 2025. Makes it difficult to navigate.” Conversely, on the question about the franchise that most has its act together, the Bengals’ AFC North Rival Baltimore Ravens came in tied for second behind the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. Two other franchise standing in the way of the Bengals winning another AFC championship – the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills – also received votes. Another survey question focused specifically on general managers and front offices. Asked which was the most difficult to navigate, the agents overwhelmingly picked the Bengals with 31 percent of the votes (7.5). The Cowboys came in second and barely had half as many (4) votes. “Unreasonable and cheap,” one agent said. “This is less about Duke (Tobin), though he plays a role,” another agent responded. “They have five different people doing the same job. Seems like there is no internal communication.” “Who’s in charge?” another agent responded after an exasperated paused. “It’s like the Wild West days. You do into a saloon, inevitably something happens, but you know the bartender isn’t really in charge.”