COB

Just turned it on, first thing I hear: “Bengals don’t have a win in the AFC North.”

I know what you mean. The loss of Perine, Bates, Hurst, and Bell was huge, and we need to hit on some of these draft picks to deal with it. Having said that, late first rounders are far from guaranteed starters anywhere. But we need guys on their first contracts to step up and contribute. We aren’t getting much out of that running back from Illinois. I’d love to see him get healthy and become a contributor because I think he could be really good. Maybe not Perine level but not many are. I actually have faith in Murphy. He’ll develop into a starter, based on what he’s doing so far. Essentially, I like the fact that he’s not straight up falling on his face out there. In a dream world he walks in here and is Hubbard level, but reality usually is it takes D Ends time to develop. It seems like running backs and corners can show up year one and play well.

I think Zac will put this game on the shoulders of his stars. Burrow to Chase. Short, long, intermediate, everything. He surely sees this game as do or die for the playoffs, probably going down throwing haymakers.

Glad to hear there is some optimism in here for tonight’s game.

It’s pretty much the season. Win this game and there is hope. Lose and playoffs are out, just spoiler role is left.

Whoa. What a colossal mistake. They had this incredible window, and one decision wrecked it. And there is really no way out for the Browns. At the earliest, they cut him after the 2025 season, and they still, in that scenario, incur double the largest dead cap hit ever. “In time, your compromise will be karmically punished.”

Going to be tough to beat the Ravens on the road at night on short rest. But you know what they say, “Any given Thursday (at night on the road).”

The CJ Stroud hype train could run over thousands of tailgating fans as it heads it Paycor. Be vigilant, people. Head on a swivel.

Now Hubbard is out. Injuries catching up with us a little. Ossai and Murphy, tighten your chinstraps a bit.

Higgins unlikely to play. But Trenton Irwin had a good game already this year, and Iosivas looks ready. Hopefully those two will step up. Houston’s defensive backfield is about middle of the pack.

Burrow mic’d up. https://youtu.be/kbiVYRJ4l7g?si=gaf1ICz1I_2YIJjM

Need Tee Higgins and Chase both. It looks like a high scoring game is very possible, need those guys.

In a move that intelligent and insightful people all around central Ohio are cheering, CBS has abandoned its grotesque plan to air the Browns game in the Columbus market at 1 pm Sunday. Instead, central Ohio has experienced a cultural, artistic, political and economic rebirth. That is correct, CBS will, as of Wednesday morning, air the Bengals/Texans game at 1 pm Sunday. Thank god (though with the cultural and scientific renaissance we just experienced in central Ohio, we grudgingly admit there is no god).

She’s here now. My furnace isn’t working. The previous owner left a schematic with the furnace so she has spent the last 3 hours trying to decipher said schematic. Spoiler: I don’t think the schematic actually goes with my furnace.

He should give a big thank you to the bengals, forcing him to move has revived his career.

It looked to me like they gameplanned the ball to TEE and TE. Maybe the Bills were known to blast a safety over to Chase all the time.

Higgins was very happy after the game. He was interviewed and said something like I needed a game like this.

It’s on NBC. I’m in Austin, TX, and it’s on here. Is NBC blacked out in SE Ohio?

“Narrated by John Legend.”

It is a sad day on this message board. Spike the hamster has shuffled off this mortal coil after an unfortunate encounter with our own Armybengal Kevorkian. We all had fond memories of Spike. Ok I’ll go first. He bought that lake house and even though he never invited me up I heard it was a lot of fun. He’d let you ride his jet ski , again I only heard about this, because he never invited me up. Spike ran for city council twice. He lost the first time, the second time they kicked him off the ballot for being a hamster. He never complained about that though. Armybengal’s cat, Sargent, was not friendly with Spike. Sargent met an untimely demise and we all kind of suspected Spike. But he was like, “Don’t look at me, I don’t run over stupid cats who go into the road out by the mailbox.” That kind of brought us back to reality. Thanks, Spike, we needed that. We all watched Spike get a little portly in his middle age, as hamsters do. Army was like, “why don’t you lose some weight you fat fuck?” And Spike was like, “I’m been stuck in a 14 inch by 18 inch aquarium my whole life. Like. Every. Moment. Of. My. Life. How am I supposed to lose weight?” Enter the hamster wheel. Army meant well. We hope. But a separated shoulder and getting half your face ripped off, well, the proof is in the pudding. The hammered down pudding with the pink stuff and some fur in it. Safe travels, Spike. You will be missed. Might be missed a little more if he’d have been a little more generous with that lake house. Like I heard that place had five bedrooms, plenty of room for guys if he’d have just invited more people up there.

I don’t need any of that bullshit. The depth of my nfl knowledge is legendary (in most Stuckey’s gift shops and in any Golden Corral, like ANY Golden Corral).

That is one smashed up car. Deer must have been full grown.

Michaels and Herbstreit act like it’s totally normal that Porter just grabs Hopkins and never let’s go.

Joey Porter Jr has a license to just hold DHop through his whole route.

During the play a bomb falls on the field, explodes, and 1000 naked Katherine Webb clones appear. Al Michaels: “Pickett under pressure there and it’s incomplete.”