Week 12: Steelers @ Bengals Game Thread

[HoosierCat]

Stripes, Army, am I gonna have to come over there and whack both of you upside the head? We want Browning to suck! Picks, fumbles, sacks, you name it, he better deliver. All wins at this point do is push us down the draft board. And looking at the schedule, even average play might get the Bengals 3 or 4 more wins. Pitt’s locker room is in meltdown, and both Indy and Minny are without their starting QBs too. An 8-9 or 9-8 finish buys us the worst of all possible worlds: no playoffs but a draft pick in the second half of the first.

Get out there and do your worst, Jake! Make us all proud.

[HoosierCat]

Steelers can Canada.

https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-fire-offensive-coordinator-matt-canada-amid-fourth-season-with-team

[ArmyBengal]

27 minutes ago, HoosierCat said:

Stripes, Army, am I gonna have to come over there and whack both of you upside the head? We want Browning to suck!

Dude, I'm all in on watching Browning channel his inner Ryan Finley.
Just get it done Jake !!

However, I'm going to be honest here...  I'm probably not watching many more Bengals games this year.
I will check in here and there, watch highlights (hopefully low lights) and move on to next year.

If there was one thing that would peak what little interest I have left in the 2023 season, it would be AJ McCarron.
I just like his wife, I mean him, and would probably see if he could go out there and have some fun with it.
God knows this roster is better than the one he should have beaten the Steelers with in the playoffs.
I have no idea where he's at with the offense, but I'm just saying.

Again, bring on the suck.  Army needs a top 10 pick !!

[COB]

59 minutes ago, HoosierCat said:

Steelers can Canada.

https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-fire-offensive-coordinator-matt-canada-amid-fourth-season-with-team

Uh oh.  The Tomlin Empire getting a little shaky.  But firing Canada buys him the rest of this season and surely all of next year as they give the new OC a fair chance.  Gonna break out some new custom aviators and a new look Tomlin calls “Blue Steel, (but with a sort of ruthless flavor.  But also confident.  So Confidently Ruthless Blue Steel.”

[gregcook69]

3 hours ago, HoosierCat said:

Stripes, Army, am I gonna have to come over there and whack both of you upside the head? We want Browning to suck! Picks, fumbles, sacks, you name it, he better deliver. All wins at this point do is push us down the draft board. And looking at the schedule, even average play might get the Bengals 3 or 4 more wins. Pitt’s locker room is in meltdown, and both Indy and Minny are without their starting QBs too. An 8-9 or 9-8 finish buys us the worst of all possible worlds: no playoffs but a draft pick in the second half of the first.

Get out there and do your worst, Jake! Make us all proud.

This is year 57 that we look forward to the draft.  Fans keep looking, the franchise keeps picking, Lombardi stays elusive!

[ArmyBengal]

We could win the Super Bowl and I would look forward to the draft.
I love college football and enjoy watching the path for many of these young guys.

If you mean that it sucks to be doing that with nearly half the season remaining, yeah, that sucks.
Such is the life of a Bengals fan.  Someone mentioned that this isn't for the weak of heart.
Truer words have never been said.

Well, that and Tyler Eifert probably fractured his ankle while blowing his nose this morning.

[Stripes]

9 hours ago, HoosierCat said:

Stripes, Army, am I gonna have to come over there and whack both of you upside the head? We want Browning to suck! Picks, fumbles, sacks, you name it, he better deliver. All wins at this point do is push us down the draft board. And looking at the schedule, even average play might get the Bengals 3 or 4 more wins. Pitt’s locker room is in meltdown, and both Indy and Minny are without their starting QBs too. An 8-9 or 9-8 finish buys us the worst of all possible worlds: no playoffs but a draft pick in the second half of the first.

Get out there and do your worst, Jake! Make us all proud.

Sure, by all means, suck every ounce of ass there is left to suck!

I just mean that if he does suck, I don't want to see him backing up Joe Burrow next season. That'd be old-style Bengals complacency.

[HoosierCat]

Today in Things That Will Raise Volcom’s Blood Pressure.

https://www.threads.net/@cdcarter13/post/Cz7t_Zfs3nc/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

[ArmyBengal]

Maybe the casual observer needed that chart, but anyone else that watches the Bengals could have told you this without thought.

[HoosierCat]

And six months later…El Stinko Grande officially named starter over Nick Scott.

https://www.cincyjungle.com/2023/11/22/23972673/jordan-battle-starter-strong-safety-bengals-news-lou-anarumo

[COB]

The NFL will never recover from this Dolly Parton halftime show.

[COB]

If one were to, say, want to gouge out one’s own eyes after seeing the Dolly Parton halftime show, hypothetically, what would one use, grapefruit spoon?  Potato peeler? 

[COB]

“What the actual fuck?” -Porter Wagner

[ArmyBengal]

That was really gross. I mean seriously.

77 year old women just shouldn’t be attempting that. There’s nothing remotely appealing about that at all. 

To answer your question COB, I’d just pull your eyes out yourself and then put them in a hard boiled egg slicer.

[COB]

Higgins out, CTB out.  Two good players.

[ArmyBengal]

5 hours ago, COB said:

Higgins out, CTB out.  Two good players.

Hell yeah, bring on the tank !!!

[GapControl]

Come on Jake Browning! Channel your inner Brock Purdy 

[GapControl]

Come on Taylor and Callahan Channel your inner Bill Walsh 

[ArmyBengal]

I would rather them channel their inner 90’s Bengals teams !!

[COB]

Don’t channel your inner Kyle McCord.  

[HoosierCat]

Taylor needs to find his inner Dave Shula.

Lou needs to channel Chuck Bresnahan.

And most importantly, Browning needs to follow in the footsteps of Akili Smith.

[volcom69]

Honestly not sure I care which way they go my main thing is I wanna see is them playing the young guys. Wanna see the young RB Brown play a lot today I wanna see what they got in him.

Oh also let’s see if Taylor runs the ball, maybe it will help him realize that if he runs it, it might actually open up passing down the field when Burrow returns next year.

[volcom69]

30th in total defense, yea even with Burrow healthy not sure they would go anywhere with that defense. They need to work on this side as well looks like 

[HoosierCat]

Well d got a stop.

[volcom69]

Lol yea terrible he looks lost right now