Next years schedule

[combatbengal]

I was just looking at our opponents next season and we have a really tough home schedule in my book. First off we play all three teams in our division which is always a dog fight no matter what the records are! Then we host the Colts, Pats, Green Bay, Vikings and Jets. The away games appear to be a little easier but then we never know how those teams will look after FA and the draft: Chargers, Bill, Dolphins, Bears and Lions plus our three Division opponents.

[BengalszoneBilly]

I was just looking at our opponents next season and we have a really tough home schedule in my book. First off we play all three teams in our division which is always a dog fight no matter what the records are! Then we host the Colts, Pats, Green Bay, Vikings and Jets. The away games appear to be a little easier but then we never know how those teams will look after FA and the draft: Chargers, Bill, Dolphins, Bears and Lions plus our three Division opponents.

Looks like a tough row to hoe.

[skyline]

Bring it.

[ArmyBengal]

Good, put me in the camp that wants to play the tougher teams at home.

We just need crowd support.

[combatbengal]

Not sure if we'll get crod support. We've been to the playoffs the past two years and most if not all home games have had weak turnouts.

[ArmyBengal]

Well, they didn't have all the blackouts last season as they did in 2011, so color me hopeful.

I think the crowd getting into it is the bigger issue regardless of how many are there.

I went to some games and at times you would have thought you were at a baseball game.

Everyone was just sitting down and watching. Nothing wrong with that if that's your thing, but d*mn, that makes it easy on the visitors.

[HoosierCat]

Tough to tell what the schedule will turn out like. Like Reedy wrote yesterday, last year they had the 14th toughest schedule before the season, and the sixth-easiest after. The 2013 schedule looks like the 12th most difficult now. This time next year?

[Scottishbengal]

Good, put me in the camp that wants to play the tougher teams at home.

We just need crowd support.

Exactly.

You can only play who's put in front of you and having the supposedly tougher teams at home has got to be an advantage. How much of an advantage will depend on the PBS crowd so lets hope the local support turns up and is loud in every game. Of course a decent FA signing or two and a good draft would encourage the local support to do just that.

Looking forward to the fixture dates being released - hope we get some prime time slots :sure:/>

[cincyhokie]

Strangely, I feel better when the Bengals play on the road. Not at home. Or is that not strange?

[HoosierCat]

Strangely, I feel better when the Bengals play on the road. Not at home. Or is that not strange?

Not when they've been 11-5 (not counting the playoffs) on the road in the last two years. That, incidentally, is something I think the coaches need to work on. Probably due to having so many young guys, it seems the team is less focused at home. As someone who used to travel a lot on business, this makes sense to me. I always got way more done at conferences and expos that were out-of-town versus ones in the same place (back then, NYC) I worked. When the show is in town, you're still expected to put in some time at the office and you go home at night, and I could never get into the same "convention mode" that I did on the road.

I seem to recall some years back one team putting the players up the night before in a hotel and treating home games like road games, but far too many brain cells have died for me to recall details.

[ArmyBengal]

Yep, that makes perfect sense about being on the road.

The only considerations are what you are on the road for.

No other things to pull you away from your focus.

I'm in Chicago this week and have my entire day to focus on what it is i'm suppose to accomplish.

No kids needing attention, no laundry, no honey do's, no any of that.

If I do feel like taking a break, I go have a great dinner at a really nice restaurant.

It's easy to be super productive on the road.

[combatbengal]

Didn't we go undefeated at home the last time we went to the Super Bowl? Maybe I'm wrong..

[combatbengal]

I was right in 1988 - Record: 12-4-0 (1st in AFC Central); 8-0 at home, 4-4 on road. In my opinion that was one of the best Super Bowls ever played and I still think that we would have won it if we hadn't lost NT Tim Krumrie to a broken leg!!

[BengalszoneBilly]

I was right in 1988 - Record: 12-4-0 (1st in AFC Central); 8-0 at home, 4-4 on road. In my opinion that was one of the best Super Bowls ever played and I still think that we would have won it if we hadn't lost NT Tim Krumrie to a broken leg!!

Jesus combat, you're really digging up some long lost dark memories for me here.

[combatbengal]

Great memories!! I also feel that we could have made a run for the Super Bowl in 2005. We had a really good team that season and they were clicking. When the Steelers broke Palmers leg in the AFC wild card and we brought Kitna in, I knew our season was over!! Which reminds me, when was the last time that we had a good backup QB? I don't think we've ever had one, we'll I can't think of one!!

[cincyhokie]

Great memories!! I also feel that we could have made a run for the Super Bowl in 2005. We had a really good team that season and they were clicking. When the Steelers broke Palmers leg in the AFC wild card and we brought Kitna in, I knew our season was over!! Which reminds me, when was the last time that we had a good backup QB? I don't think we've ever had one, we'll I can't think of one!!

Turk Schonert

[Dimster28]

I was right in 1988 - Record: 12-4-0 (1st in AFC Central); 8-0 at home, 4-4 on road. In my opinion that was one of the best Super Bowls ever played and I still think that we would have won it if we hadn't lost NT Tim Krumrie to a broken leg!!

now i understand why bengals lost in superbowl, 8-0 at home win regular season, 2-0 at home in preseason, 2-0 at home in playoff, so total 12-0 at home that year, 4-4 away regular season, 2-1 away for preseason, 0-1 for away play off, so total is 6-6 for away games that year

so i guess if superbowl was at cincinnati that year, bengals would have win it

[jonf45uk]

I was right in 1988 - Record: 12-4-0 (1st in AFC Central); 8-0 at home, 4-4 on road. In my opinion that was one of the best Super Bowls ever played and I still think that we would have won it if we hadn't lost NT Tim Krumrie to a broken leg!!

now i understand why bengals lost in superbowl, 8-0 at home win regular season, 2-0 at home in preseason, 2-0 at home in playoff, so total 12-0 at home that year, 4-4 away regular season, 2-1 away for preseason, 0-1 for away play off, so total is 6-6 for away games that year

so i guess if superbowl was at cincinnati that year, bengals would have win it :(/>

i always felt that if the game had been on turf not grass the Bengals would have won. Just never got the running game going if i remember correctly. Krumrie's injury was a massive blow for us too, but i still feel we were the best team in the league that year

[Scottishbengal]

Just seen that the Bills are playing one of their home games in Toronto this coming season ..... hoping far too much that it'd be against the Bengals at a time of year when the lower cost airlines are flying Scotland to Toronto direct !!

Fingers crossed though.