Dan2330 Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 Look at how the other teams in the AFC have rolled over to allow us to try and get into the playoffs- the Bills doing some gadget crap at the end of today's game, the Jags for losing so many damn games lately, the Jets for losing to the Bills at home a few weeks ago, the Chiefs for blowing a lead to the Brownies and yet still when we control our our destiny- we crap out....Bad plays, bad games, everything stacked up all year long and like it hit like a freight train with the snap of one extra point. I hate having to rely on the Jets to lose and then still have work to do next week to even hope to make it. Today's game looked like a flashback of some plays to the Wild Card playoff game last year, the bull s**t trick play that burned us, the botched play by St. Louis, and on the field bickering. Good teams deserve to go to the playoffs, teams that don't go out and try to win deserve to go home...We are so snake bitten over the years, only fun thing now is watching Peyton lose in the playoffs so all the 'he can't win the big game' talk can start up again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhoDey93285 Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 I am sorry, but you don't think we deserve to get in over the NFC wildcard teams that are probably going to be below .500? I'll call BS on that one. If anyone that makes the playoff doesn't deserve it, its got to be one of the 7-9 NFC WC teams thats going to make it. Yeah, we haven't played great this season, but just because we've had help to put us in this position does not mean we don't deserve it. I mean, when we were 4-5, who put us into the position to even be included into the playoff picture? We did. I'm sorry but if we make the playoffs, we deserve to be there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripes Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 I won't say the Bengals don't deserve a playoff spot. They had a tough fight on their hands today in the Denver snow, and still managed a 90 yard drive to "tie" the game with less than a minute to play. They f**ked up plenty, but still showed me the heart of a playoff team. The ending will put everyone in a sour mood for while, and understandably so... But I think the Bengals are just as deserving of a wild card berth as anyone else competing with them (assuming they don't lay an egg next week). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kentjett Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 I don't see a 7-9 team making it but any team that makes the playoffs deserve it. There is a lot of parity in the NFL and any team can win on any given sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhoDey93285 Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 I don't see a 7-9 team making it but any team that makes the playoffs deserve it. There is a lot of parity in the NFL and any team can win on any given sunday.Giants are 7-8 and hold the second WC Spot. 7-9 and getting in is very feasible, which is PATHETIC. I've crapped better football teams than the NFC puts out on the football field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spor_tees Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 I don't see a 7-9 team making it but any team that makes the playoffs deserve it. There is a lot of parity in the NFL and any team can win on any given sunday.Giants are 7-8 and hold the second WC Spot. 7-9 and getting in is very feasible, which is PATHETIC. I've crapped better football teams than the NFC puts out on the football field.You've crapped a football team before? "That's gotta hurt!" in my best Bruce Campbell voice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhoDey93285 Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 I don't see a 7-9 team making it but any team that makes the playoffs deserve it. There is a lot of parity in the NFL and any team can win on any given sunday.Giants are 7-8 and hold the second WC Spot. 7-9 and getting in is very feasible, which is PATHETIC. I've crapped better football teams than the NFC puts out on the football field.You've crapped a football team before? "That's gotta hurt!" in my best Bruce Campbell voice. LOL, touche. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregCook Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 I have no idea if the Bengals can or will make the playoffs. If they do, its a new season and anything is possible. But one thing I do know is that the Bengals didn't stop elite QB's this season. Their Pro Bowl players(except Willie) haven't played like Pro Bowlers in games that really counted for alot. Take the last two weeks as examples. The Plus side of this is that next year, the draft and FA will be all about finding the best players they can find in the skill positions. The ones they have this season, fumbled, dropped, quit and over threw this season. Still, as bad as they have played, if they make the playoffs, who knows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoTbOy Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 If the Bengals qualify for the playoffs then they deserve to make it, if they don't qualify then they don't deserve to make...I for 1 don't think that the D will gets us to Miami, so I am looking to next year... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coy Bacon & Egg Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 I think in the back of our minds we all suspected it at the time ... When all is said and done, I think Mike Carey's "roughing the passer" call in Tampa will have kept Cincy out of the playoffs -- and if they do squeak in, it will have cost them a spot or two in the playoff seeding.A lot of times you don't know when someone stuck the knife in you until much later and you look back on it. I knew as soon as that Tampa game played out (just the way Mr. Carey wanted it to, for some reason).That said, if coaches can say "We're as good as our record," then this will be a playoff team if it gets in, and won't be if it doesn't get in. Talk won't have anything to do with it.That said, this team seems to me to just be stuck at a new level of futility. ML certainly raised the context from laughingstock to playoff contender, but all that does is make the stupidity and cruel fate and bad calls mean more. Otherwise, same old same old. Only difference is now we beat teams like Cleveland and Oakland regularly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekshank Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 With the injuries we've dealt with, compared with the toughest schedule in the NFL, I think it's hard to say that if we make it, that we didn't deserve it.That said... the whole point of going to the playoffs is to make a Super Bowl run. The Bengals will do no such thing, so what's the point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Player4 Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 When you play one of the toughest schedules and you find yourself in the playoffs you deserve to be there.If we make it I'm sure we'd all be surprised to actually win a game or two but you can't deny that the experience of making the playoffs again and just being there is valuable experience toward what we all know will be better seasons ahead.I see this as year 2 of a five or six year stretch of Bengal playoff teams. I can easily see division titles in our future. The Brownies are in a state of confusion and will take a few more years to fix. The Steelers just don't gel as a team now and I don't see that improving for them next year. The Ravens are old and have avoided injury...next year they are even older and injuries will come.The Bengals are clearly in the best shape of the division teams going forward and this season was all about dealing with adversity and building character and experience for our future Super Bowl champions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmyBengal Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 I still hate our f*cking defense !!!Merry Christmas !!!WHODEY !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobcat Bengal Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 yeah, we kinda do.after that botch job playing the Bucs, we do deserve it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjakq27 Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 We are 1-5 against the top 5 teams in the AFC. Nuff said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
combatbengal Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 I see it this way. #1 we had the hardest schedule in the NFL this year! #2 We've had key players out all year long. #3 We've only lost one Div game! We beat the Browns twice, Steelers once (another one will come next week), and the Ravns once! We're better the the NFC teams fighting for a playoff spot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJJackson Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 I have to agree with CombatBengal - we played a killer schedule and had a staggering number of player/games lost to injury and suspension. I said as the season opened that 9-7 with this schedule would be just as great an accomplishment as 11-5 last year, and I stand by that. So...If we obtain the #6 seed, so be it. No other team will have had as hard a road to the playoffs. There is PLENTY of silver lining to the grey cloud that is 2006, in that our team learned a lot of valuable (I think) lessons that will help us a lot in 2007, such as:1) we discovered that we have good depth (we overcame TONS of injuries) 2) our team learned that you can't afford to look past early season "gimme" games - we'd be 9-7 right now if we'd have beaten Tampa Bay 3) we learned that we can't just merely be "good" and expect playoff success. We lost to every (or nearly every) AFC playoff representative4) to continue from 4, with the exception of the NE game, we played well enough (especially early in the SD game) to win it. I doubt we fear we can't play with the big boys anymore - our team now knows we need to crank it up another notch and we'll beat those teams half or more of the times we face them. 5) our team learned from the SD game that when they have their foot on the throat of a good team, they can't just keep it there, they must instead start choking the last bit of life out of them. I'm very much looking forward to playing the #2 division schedule and having a healthier roster next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregCook Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 These NFL players should already have known years ago what we are talking about here. Its not these generalities that are root causes of the Bengals problems. Despite their injuries and tough schedule they had the playoffs in their grasp. That is damn impressive. The Bengals over the last two games haven't acted like a top team, haven't played like a top team and most painful, their stars played like the Pro Bowl was for some other guy. Not a one of them played great. Let those guys explain why the Bengals aren't in the playoffs.I have to agree with CombatBengal - we played a killer schedule and had a staggering number of player/games lost to injury and suspension. I said as the season opened that 9-7 with this schedule would be just as great an accomplishment as 11-5 last year, and I stand by that. So...If we obtain the #6 seed, so be it. No other team will have had as hard a road to the playoffs. There is PLENTY of silver lining to the grey cloud that is 2006, in that our team learned a lot of valuable (I think) lessons that will help us a lot in 2007, such as:1) we discovered that we have good depth (we overcame TONS of injuries) 2) our team learned that you can't afford to look past early season "gimme" games - we'd be 9-7 right now if we'd have beaten Tampa Bay 3) we learned that we can't just merely be "good" and expect playoff success. We lost to every (or nearly every) AFC playoff representative4) to continue from 4, with the exception of the NE game, we played well enough (especially early in the SD game) to win it. I doubt we fear we can't play with the big boys anymore - our team now knows we need to crank it up another notch and we'll beat those teams half or more of the times we face them. 5) our team learned from the SD game that when they have their foot on the throat of a good team, they can't just keep it there, they must instead start choking the last bit of life out of them. I'm very much looking forward to playing the #2 division schedule and having a healthier roster next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripes Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 I'm very much looking forward to playing the #2 division schedule and having a healthier roster next year.No doubt. The chances that the Bengals encounter as many bumps in the road in '07 as they did in '06 is tiny, and the schedule will be much easier (but still not the '05 cakewalk). It will be a fun year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjakq27 Posted December 26, 2006 Report Share Posted December 26, 2006 I'm very much looking forward to playing the #2 division schedule and having a healthier roster next year.No doubt. The chances that the Bengals encounter as many bumps in the road in '07 as they did in '06 is tiny, and the schedule will be much easier (but still not the '05 cakewalk). It will be a fun year. This is a real trap to fall into. There are only two games different between the teams in each division. The other fourteen are the same. We all will play the NFC West and the AFC East next season. I am not sure it will be that easy. At Miami, San Fran and Seattle while hosting NE and the Jets. This year we got Indy and NE as the "positional" teams, the Steelers drew Jacksonville and the Dolphins and the Ravens who were third got Tennessee and Buffalo.However, last year we were 4-0 against the NFC Central while going 2-2 against the NFC South this year. I think we will all point to the Tampa game as the first of many critical losses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmyBengal Posted December 26, 2006 Report Share Posted December 26, 2006 Considering I didn't get to see a number of games from November and December, I'll leave room for error, but color me unimpressed. It seems regardless of schedule, injuries, bad calls, or criminal records, the Bengals had more than one or two games well within the capability of winning and they just didn't get it done. The one bad call against Tampa, the botched kick against the Broncos, the blown 21 point lead to the Chargers, Atlanta... The list goes on. Sometimes things don't go your way, but the guys just didn't get it done. Carson still seems off and our defense still sickens me. Sad to see one of the best statistcal years go unrewarded due to what appears to be a lack of that killer desire and a coaching staff that in my opinion needs looked at again. Just my two cents from the nosebleeds !!!WHODEY !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stilldiesel Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 My Steelers definitely deserved their fate this year. Still, after going 15-1 two years ago and winning the SB last year, I can live with one s**tty season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacD BengalFan Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 I don't understand. Please someone help me because why the don't deserve to be in the playoffs after all the Bengals have been through this season. The bad ref's, the injuries, the multiple arrests of players, the tough schedule, etc... and they do not deserve to be in the playoffs? This team has overcome almost every challenge a team can face in a season and still on the verge of making it to the second season. Most teams would have packed in after losing 4 of 5 games. If they make the playoffs with a 9-7 record, then they deserve it, period! I think anyone who does not believe this to be true is not a true fan and should turn in their stripes now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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