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Burrow had several 'off the mark' passes. One of the first ones I can remember was the first high one to Higgins. So un-Burrow like. Not even close! I remember when Dalton started high like that, he almost always had a bad day! Is there any point in time in yesterday's game where, if you were head coach, you would have given Flacco a shot for a series?

Hey Volcom, did you watch any of the preseason games? The second and third team defense went 'lights' out with tackling!! this must be a rebuilding year!!

This is what this franchise is all about! What about next year?? We're 4 games into 2026, and we're already talking about next year!!! "EXPECT THE WORST, AND HOPE FOR THE BEST!!

Good night Irene!!

What’s the purpose of having Flacco if you don’t use him? WAIT . . . . it’s the Bengals!!

If you watched any preseason games, the second and third team defense tackled very well!!!

Another one!

Time for Joe 2

And I’ll say it again. With this franchise it’s ALWAYS ‘expect the worst, hope for the best’ . . 59 years running! The long black haired ‘talking head’ predicted 9-8 and miss the playoffs again!!

An NFL player should NEVER line up in the neutral zone!!! You learn that kind of Football 101 in high school!!!!!

Anybody looking JUST at offensive stats, would never believe the Bengals won the game, and with last year's defense, they would not have won.

I watched MOST of the preseason games via NFL+ and did Brooks ever do anything? I never saw him do squat!! He was out there going against the defensive 2s and 3s just like Bullock and Haynes. I guess the coaches know something we don't?!?!

I just missed it when I put the post together. AI listed Chad Johnson.

McDermott gone!

Anyone remember this beast??

Not this year. Maybe next year!

Josh Allen bites the dust again!

You’re not ‘SILENTLY’ hoping it now!

Ok, so if this is your prediction BECAUSE it’s the Bengals, are you like AB and I, and just expect the worst, but hope for the best, rant and rave in here just to hear our heads roar?

Good Big 10 point AB. Personally, outside of MAYBE the 2001 Hurricanes, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team with the kind of passion and excellence like this Hoosier team! What’s ironic is how this is basically a basketball town with the school winning 5 championships! Kind of like if Duke football was playing for the championship with no previous titles and a basketball team with 5! Also I agree that the NFL matchups this year could make for some good football but I guess I’m NOT really a football fan/watcher. I’ll only watch games the Bengals, Eagles, or Texans are in, IF it’s televised. I’ll watch the Texans game but IF/ONCE they lose, I won’t have anymore dogs in the fight so I probably won’t be watching!

My post was replying to Prophecy, but I’m glad you weighed in as well. I’m older and born and raised in Dayton! I’m so old Cleveland was the only team in Ohio. Dad liked PB so it wasn’t hard to be a Browns fan. When the Browns did PB dirty and he started the Bengals in 1968, I was just a few months shy of 15. Since Cincinnati was only 50 miles down I75, we were already Reds fans and liked PB, so it wasn’t hard to switch teams! (I was fortunate to go to game #5 of the 1975 WS and game 1 of the 1976 WS. I would have went to a game in the 1990 WS if I had still been in Dayton!) Even though I moved to Florida in 1981, I’m STILL and always will be a Bengals fan but also root for and follow the Texans because of CJ. Since my wife and son like the Eagles I pull for them as well from the NFC. Hoping to see a Lombardi in Cincinnati before I go to The House!

Because it’s the forums and this is a place where we all like to come up with ‘if’ hypothetical/fantasy scenarios, (if this were to happen, or if so and so was coach, or if so and so were drafted, or if we get rid of and/trade so and so . . . . .) Let's do this. If, for the 2026 season, the Bengals and the Texans swapped ALL the defensive players including the DC and his defensive coaches, and assuming all the offensive players and coaches for the Bengals and Texans STAYED. The Brown family remains, Zac remains, but the Brown family AND Zac completely leave the defense alone and let the DC and his coaches run the defensive show unhindered, assuming no major long term injuries, what do you think would happen next year with this franchise? I can’t even begin to imagine!

SOMEHOW? I think we ALL know HOW HC!?!

I don’t have faith in ANYONE, but after PB died and MB and the rest of the Brown clan took over, I’m pretty sure I can guess what hand the fans are going to be dealt! You KNOW the Brown family. You KNOW what’s going to happen. Still you issued an ultimatum! What are your options? Walk away and fan up with another franchise? Or just keep on pissing and morning in here like the rest of us do, expecting the worst, but ‘hoping’ for the best?

Not qualified?? What is considered qualified in Prophecy’s world? 2012 Asst QB coach Dolphins 2013-2014 QB coach Dolphins 2015 OC and QB coach Dolphins 2016 OC and QB coach Bengals 2017 Asst wide receivers coach Rams 2018 QB coach Rams