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My take was Herd felt sorry for Burrow because, reading between the lines, he’s going to end up like Marino and Herd thinks he deserves better! He leads the league in passing and doesn’t even MAKE the playoffs?!?! Die hard fans like you know it’s que sirah sirah for the Bengals, and we just suck it up, but very few have the balls to say it, PUBLICLY, out loud! They’d rather feel sorry for Mike, knowing his dad had probably the most brilliant mind in football! Seems to me Army you’re just blowing off frustration steam because you’ve locked into a Bengals fan for life, regardless!

https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-joe-burrow-guy-i-worry-about-colin-cowherd-raises-concern-275-000-000-bengals-qb-s-legacy-cincinnati

I was just thrilled to get to go to game 5 of the ‘75 series and game 6 of the ‘76 series! I would have gone to the ‘90 series but I was in Florida.

Not sure how this has anything to do with my reply about coaches being fired ASAP, but I like how you think and communicate! Do you have any coaching experience? Ever think about dropping your name in Zac’s quest? Being totally serious. You have done the research and seem to be in the mix!

I don’t like either team, but I despise the Steelers more! ESPECIALLY thinking back to the 70s as they have ALWAYS been the Bengals nemesis! With the admission from a referee that they tended to cater to Brady and the Pats, don’t be surprised if the NFL gets a chubby over the first team to THREE PEAT! As much of a Reds fan as I am, I’ll never forget during the 1976 season, one of the umpires admitted that Joe Morgan had such a tremendous eye for balls and strikes, that when Joe was up and he ‘took’ a close pitch, the call was always a ball, because he said if Morgan took the pitch, it had to be a ball? Is that bias? You bet it is!

Okay, I’ll be the one to repeat the most used NFL cliche in football . . . ANY GIVEN SUNDAY!! THERE! It’s been said! NEVER forget the Giants were a 9-7 wild card team and beat the Pats in the SB!

It has absolutely NOTHING to do with me being offended or moral high ground. I’m pretty much bulletproof when it comes to being offended unless someone comes after my family. Just trying to pass along a heads up about forever! MANY people have no problem with that gamble and it’s a ‘personal’ preference! People are free to believe and live however they want. My opinion means NOTHING to anyone except me! I just choose to cover my hind-end, because after living in this God forsaken world for 71 or 80 years, I want to make sure forever isn’t worse than it is here, because forever is a long time! Some never want to talk about it, but I came to the realization that since I have a limited, finite, feeble mind, I can’t be certain WHAT happens afterward, even if I ‘believed’ only a 5% chance that The Gospel IS true, I’m not willing to gamble with that! That’s the long and short of it. And now . . back to, and on with the football show! WHO DEY!!!

I don’t disagree with your point AMPHAR, but this quote above makes MY point! I was two months shy of being 15 when PB BIRTHED the Bengals. Because Cincy was just 50 miles south of Dayton on I75, and my dad was a huge PB fan, and thought he was done dirty in Cleveland, we changed from Brown to Bengal fans. This franchise has NEVER done what you’ve described above . . EVER! THIS is my POINT! Kind of like what HC was saying, if a franchise wants to compete, they have to play by the rules the other franchises are playing by! PERIOD!! Cleaning the problem coaching areas is a start TOWARD that ‘rule playing’! Changing coaches doesn’t ALWAYS prove to be the right move, as Cleveland has shown over the years, but when you have a team with the passing and sack Kings, and a receiver who joins just 5 other receivers who have won the triple crown in the Super-bowl era, and don’t make the playoffs . . . something HAS to be done and this franchise FINALLY DID something as uncharacteristically as it was! AGREE? PB had a brilliant football mind! He was Belichick’s mentor! Not saying he NEVER made mistakes, and one of his biggest blunders, looking back, was naming Tiger Johnson has HC instead of Bill Walsh when PB stepped down as HC! The ONLY sweet spot for me about the Bengals first two SB losses was, it was sweet revenge for Walsh!

You won’t have anyone to blame ONE DAY! Poo poo it all you want, but it’s like the saying goes . . . . “Just because you believe something doesn’t make it true!”

No way were the Chiefs beating the Broncos with the second string.

Me? ?????

Neither does all the hate and cursing either Army! Maybe Junior has more on the ball than you think? I’ve come to the epiphany that it’s all just a game! Sure, I’d love to see more playoff victories and maybe even a Lombardi, like the 3 WS trophies I've seen the Reds win. Winning 5 playoff games in 2 years, the same amount of wins it took the same franchise 53 years to win, is definitely a start, but I agree with HC. Unfortunately this sport has gotten to the point that IF you want to truly compete you have to play by the same financial rules your competitors play by. I saw Tyreek Hill crying that he needs to leave Miami and go where the money because he has to feed his family!?!? ROTFL!! A multi-millionaire is concerned about feeding his family? How about us working stiffs who average 2.5 million in our LIFETIME? How do WE do it?!? Not sure if, even after MB leaves, Katie will do. Time will tell.

“Burrow’s contract has nothing to do with it. Teams can pay their star QB and still pay other players. KC does it. Baltimore does it. Cincinnati uses it as an excuse because they don’t want to play by the same financial rules as the rest of the league. The Brown family’s no. 1 goal is NOT TO WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP, it’s to pile up as much money as possible in their bank accounts.” HC

My prediction, no clue or interest to know how the financial caps work, but IF the cap stuff allows them to, this franchise will NEVER sign, Chase, Higgins, Gesicki, Hendrickson, and Hilton.

Goodnight Irene! Sienfeld episode ‘The Soup Nazi’! “NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!” Bengals episode ‘The Lombardi Nazi’! “NO LOMBARDI FOR YOU, for the 57th time!!!”