Week 10: Bengals @ Ravens

[volcom69]

1 hour ago, HoosierCat said:

Yup. I remember back in 1999 some reporter asked Mike how far the team could go, and he answered, "we'll go as far as Akili Smith will take us."

25 years later, the entire strategy and weekly game plan is "we'll go as far as Joe and Ja'Marr will take us."

Nothing ever changes.

Sounds about right! I joined here in 2004, I have over 24,000 posts, and yet shit is still the same out there. 
 

Players come and go, and yet it’s the same mentality as it’s always been. Nothing has changed from year after year, or coach after coach. 

[HoosierCat]

Also worth mentioning: the it’s all on Joe/Ja’marr strategy might work, if they had any help on the other side of the ball at all.

Burrow vs Baltimore, 2024: 64/95, 820, 9/1

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[AMPHAR]

1999? LOL.   Nah, not buying any of that fan crying bullshit.   There's plenty of changes for the better with this organization.   This team is talented had some on field breakdowns from coaches and proven players.   Refs have hurt them more this year.   Injuries seem to be normal.

IF you want to cry in your beer and wallow in your misery over something YOU CHOOSE to be a fan of.....at least choose a better year.   I'd go with 1987.

Talented team in 1987.  Just a bunch of stuff going wrong at the wrong time turning a close win into a close loss.

1999 couldn't come close to anything post Marvin, sorry.  That's a bad take.

 

 

[AMPHAR]

Its hard for me to understand the Mike Brown crying.  Sounds very Clevelandish with these very real situations.

You can choose to believe Pat Mahomes could get hit in the head twice IN the same drive and not get one called.  But I'd say the refs missed a bad face mask in a Vikings game resulting a loss.  They clearly missed a Crosby late hit on Burrow and missed another in the latest Ravens game.  Bengals are not getting these calls.

Of course they choose to throw the flag on 4th and 16 in KC and somehow keep them in their pocket when a TE gets mugged at the LOS on a 2 point conversion.   This was predictable and you can read as much in the KC post game thread.

Sure you can be that fan that assumes it all evens out AND I don't blame officiating. OK, whatever.  The law of averages have been against the Bengals so far this season IF you want to go that route.  Does anyone really debate the chances of victory in key games this year have not been influenced by bad officiating?  Anyone?

Point being they could have 2 wins vs. the AFC top with a simple flip of ref calls.   That's not a talent issue.  That's typical NFL shit because they have SHIT officiating with a shit rule book.   Which is nothing new at all.  Its a decade long problem.

Then a 3rd win was lost because a missed FG by a playoff MVP.    Should they have not drafted Money Mac? Would he be unemployed if not for the Bengals?  

Same with Chase Brown.   Bad fumble.   Are the Bengals the only team that would roster and play him?

Same theme,  Lou has shit the bed with his ability to get these guys playing even.  2 halves you can hang with the Ravens.   2 2nd halves they can't.   Lou used to be the opposite.  

There's some moves that haven't worked out so the front office isn't free and clear but its normal NFL error rate.

I think its a talented team that choke in some points and others flat out got screwed by the refs. 

The 1999 team was not a few plays or bad calls away from being in contention for No. 1 seed.  Fans are letting their emotions get the best of them and in part allowing the NFL to get away with a bad product.

 

 

[AMPHAR]

Off topic:  LSU gets to have a live Tiger on the sidelines.    Must be nice to be a tiger.

 

[Footballer]

This loss sucks. I wish Lamar would just go away. Don't let him win the division because you could control his fate week 18 against the Steelers.