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It is truly amazing how the Bengals are all over the board in various power rankings. I have seen them as high as #3 and as low as the mid teens. One ass hat over on ESPN picks them to finish third in the division, with his only reason being, Chad and TO being on the same team is a disaster waiting to happen.

Merrill Hoge picks them to go to the Super Bowl and John Clayton said, "The Bengals are stacked."

"I guess that's why they play the games"

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Sea Ray

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Well they picked the Seahawks a notch lower than your Bills with this comment:

Can anyone find a reason to think this team will be competitive?

I can find a reason. How 'bout a cake schedule? They get to play the Rams and depleted Cardinals twice plus the AFC West. That schedule alone will get them enough wins to escape the 31st spot.

That site also had a link to the Whatifsports.com win percentage thing which I don't get at all. It shows both the Bengals and the Patriots as having an over 50% chance of winning this week. Am I missing something?

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One ass hat over on ESPN picks them to finish third in the division, with his only reason being, Chad and TO being on the same team is a disaster waiting to happen.

Actually, if you're talking about Wickersham, that asshat picked them 4th, which is mind-blowing. Lots of asshats are picking them 3rd, though with the Ravens and Steelers always being competitive, that's not so insulting. Incorrect, I believe, but not insulting.

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It is truly amazing how the Bengals are all over the board in various power rankings. I have seen them as high as #3 and as low as the mid teens. One ass hat over on ESPN picks them to finish third in the division, with his only reason being, Chad and TO being on the same team is a disaster waiting to happen.

Merrill Hoge picks them to go to the Super Bowl and John Clayton said, "The Bengals are stacked."

"I guess that's why they play the games"

Why is it so far-fetched to predict the bengals 3rd in the division? I think that's a very real possibility. We only finished one game out of third place last year, and were clearly no better than the second-best team in the division by the end of the season. You guys act like the Bengals are some kind of dominant force.

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COB Mentor

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You guys act like the Bengals are some kind of dominant force.

Your stupidity is a dominant force.

This is a Bengals fan message board. Guys who come here to post are probably the most enthusiastic Bengals supporters in existence.

Is it surprising to you that these folks, predisposed to view any circumstances through a black and orange striped prism, would view the Bengals as dominant after the year they had in '09? 6-0 in the North seems pretty dominant to me.

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I hear this from Steelers fans all the time, the reality is the the Bengals were much closer to a 12-4 team than a 9-7 team. We were two completely fluke plays (the kickoff fumble in Oakland and the Leon Hall tip vs. the Broncos) from winning both of those games we were more than two plays away from losing any of the 10 games we won.

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I hear this from Steelers fans all the time, the reality is the the Bengals were much closer to a 12-4 team than a 9-7 team. We were two completely fluke plays (the kickoff fumble in Oakland and the Leon Hall tip vs. the Broncos) from winning both of those games we were more than two plays away from losing any of the 10 games we won.

sorry, but I have to bring up the Stealers and Ravens games, where last chance TD's spared losses for the Bengals last year. Those are two games where 1 play meant everything.

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I hear this from Steelers fans all the time, the reality is the the Bengals were much closer to a 12-4 team than a 9-7 team. We were two completely fluke plays (the kickoff fumble in Oakland and the Leon Hall tip vs. the Broncos) from winning both of those games we were more than two plays away from losing any of the 10 games we won.

sorry, but I have to bring up the Stealers and Ravens games, where last chance TD's spared losses for the Bengals last year. Those are two games where 1 play meant everything.

The first Browns game too. The Bengals had to convert a 4th and 2 near the end of regulation to even get to overtime.

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They particularly love the AFC North, 3 teams in the top 10

Pittsburgh at #7?

Why?

Because they are the Steelers who, apparently, could have me quarterbacking and they would still be picked by some to not only win the division but the Super Bowl as well.

You see, the Steelers are always a perennial playoff team and serious Super Bowl contender just because they are anointed...

That is, unless you count the late 1980s through 1990s.

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One play here or there always means the difference in a couple of games every season. It's why coaches always say a team is defined by what it's record is, not the number of games it could and should have won if only for an unlucky bounce or a questionable call by an official. And simply put, the Bengals were a 10 win team, good enough for a division championship and a playoff berth. Absolutely no apologies need to made to the JoePongs of the world.

As for any suggestion of dominance, I'd say that idea flew out of every window after the playoff loss to the Jets. Whether you as a fan let the idea back in after seeing the changes made this offseason by Cincy is a very different question altogether.

Finally, the staggering amount of changes made offensively and defensively to an existing 10-6 playoff team suggests any projections based upon past performance is likely to be a questionable sort of thing from the very start. Thus, a rather predictable extremely wide range of opinions, qualified and unqualified, and a resulting consensus opinion agreeing that almost everything is on the table....including giant pitchers of koolaid.

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Actually, the pressure really is on the Bengals to win this thing.

It's hard to sweep a division any year, let alone 2009.

A lot of things have to fall in your favor, but you should still be considered favorites.

The closest rival I see to stealing the AFCN is the Ravens.

Very talented team - but has a history of being upended by the Beng Bengs.

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Those are some powerful hallucinigens that Pong must be on. The people in this thread expressed amazement at a ranking that high and took exception to it, which prompted Pong to crawl from his home in the business end of a concert site port-a-potty and take people on this board to task for things they didn't do.

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I listened to the ESPN Football Today podcast for the first time since last year. There has been a change in the hosting due to Jeremy Green getting into some child porn related trouble.

The new host is an open Steelers homer, but I thought "he won't let that influence his power rankings." He had the Ravens around 9, and I thought, "that's reasonable, but I don't think i heard the Steelers mentioned yet." Then he had the Bengals around 6 or so, and I thought, "that's reasonable, but I don't think I heard the Steelers mentioned yet. That can't be right. I must have been distracted somewhere during the teens." Then at #3, the Steelers.

Put the Ravens at 3, I completely buy it.

Put the Bengals at 3, I can begrudgingly accept it.

Put the Steelers at 3, I delete the podcast subscription and decry your stupidity on twitter.

Anybody have a link to last years Pre Week 1 power rankings last year? I'm betting the Saints averaged a ranking around 12 or so.

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Put the Ravens at 3, I completely buy it.

Put the Bengals at 3, I can begrudgingly accept it.

Put the Steelers at 3, I delete the podcast subscription and decry your stupidity on twitter.

Yup. I think most people would have a hard time finding much seperation between the Ravens and the Bengals, and I'm not sure I would argue much, if at all, should someone like yourself claim that after an offseason filled with moves and counter moves that the Ravens didn't edge past the Bengals at the very end. But I'm not feeling the Steelers, and I find myself saying so in every thread like this one.

Anyways, this cracked me up recently. One of the so-called experts on PFT made his Super bowl picks and in the analysis he explained that his primary consideration was based upon if a teams passing game could be trusted. Less weight was given to a teams level of defensive prowess as that was said to be more a sporadic strength. So of course the guy who considers the trust level of a teams passing game as the most critical consideration of all picks Pittsburgh to win the AFCN.

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