Week 11: Bengals @ Chargers

[marvinmartian]

Still the Bungles!!

[ArmyBengal]

Wow, I went to bed when I said I was turning off this shit, only to find they made a furious charge back into the game.
Then I heard those same words uttered when learning it wasn't enough....  "They have to find a way to finish"

Zac Taylor... your time is up.  Please pack up your office, grab your coordinators (don't forget Pollack) and go away.
This season has finally come to an end.  There is no "All we have to do is go on a run" anymore.
That run needed to start last night and yet again, the offense (despite it's own concerns) put up 27 points and lost.

I don't care what the players are doing, the coaches need to be held accountable for this shit show of a team.
The players are frustrated, yelling at each other on the sidelines and the coaches are seemingly clueless as what to do next.

The only thing worse than knowing no one is getting fired is knowing that if they did, another clown show will get out of the car.
I'm sick of hearing the players aren't that good as well.  The coaches played a DIRECT part in those players coming to the team.
It's not like shit show, half ass players just showed up and decided to put on a uniform.
Someone scouted them, drafted them, brought them in and signed them as a free agent and trained them what to do.

***HINT***  That "someone" wasn't the fucking girl on the sideline squeezing Gatorade into the players mouths.

Stop the talk of playoffs right now.  Just stop.

Oh yeah, I gave Lou another shot at believing what he could get this defense to do and what do you know, he failed again.
Please just get the fuck out of here.  I have no sympathy for him.  NONE. 
FUCK YOU LOU AND ZAC TOO.

 

That sounds like a t-shirt slogan as we head into the 2025 draft.  Writing that down...

[ArmyBengal]

Ja'Marr letting the cracks in the dam appear a little more glaring when asked "How the team can finish better" ??

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“How do I do it? I don’t know,” Chase said. “Ask Zac. Ask the coaches — don’t ask me. That’s not my job.”

[COB]

Until we get a new owner, this is it.  

[ArmyBengal]

Pretty much COB.  Sadly, pretty much.

[HoosierCat]

1 hour ago, ArmyBengal said:

Wow, I went to bed when I said I was turning off this shit, only to find they made a furious charge back into the game.
Then I heard those same words uttered when learning it wasn't enough....  "They have to find a way to finish"

Zac Taylor... your time is up.  Please pack up your office, grab your coordinators (don't forget Pollack) and go away.
This season has finally come to an end.  There is no "All we have to do is go on a run" anymore.
That run needed to start last night and yet again, the offense (despite it's own concerns) put up 27 points and lost.

I don't care what the players are doing, the coaches need to be held accountable for this shit show of a team.
The players are frustrated, yelling at each other on the sidelines and the coaches are seemingly clueless as what to do next.

The only thing worse than knowing no one is getting fired is knowing that if they did, another clown show will get out of the car.
I'm sick of hearing the players aren't that good as well.  The coaches played a DIRECT part in those players coming to the team.
It's not like shit show, half ass players just showed up and decided to put on a uniform.
Someone scouted them, drafted them, brought them in and signed them as a free agent and trained them what to do.

***HINT***  That "someone" wasn't the fucking girl on the sideline squeezing Gatorade into the players mouths.

Stop the talk of playoffs right now.  Just stop.

Oh yeah, I gave Lou another shot at believing what he could get this defense to do and what do you know, he failed again.
Please just get the fuck out of here.  I have no sympathy for him.  NONE. 
FUCK YOU LOU AND ZAC TOO.

 

That sounds like a t-shirt slogan as we head into the 2025 draft.  Writing that down...

Preach on, brother. No lies detected. The whole organization is broken right now. Re Ja'Marr, every time the went to him on the bench last night you could see the frustration. He clearly could not wait to get out of there. If I'm him I'm thinking that maybe not getting a deal done last spring was a blessing in disguise. I know he and Joe are two peas in a pod but he has to be wondering if this shitshow is worth any more of his time.

And to my eye it looks like they're destroying Burrow too. He's too much of a competitor to quit, but he clearly knows he's getting no help from the FO and the coaching staff has no clue.

[COB]

One thing in particular- the rule requiring teams to put all guaranteed money in escrow when they sign a contract.

 

This specific rule, along with the rise of guaranteed money, is the one thing that will make Mike Brown’s method unworkable in the future.  The NFL is creeping towards baseball, and we’re the Pittsburgh Pirates.  
 

Sell the team.

[ArmyBengal]

I've now seen at least 5 different articles claiming Lou has been given players that lack the necessary talent.

AGAIN, please spare me the bullshit.  He wasn't "given" shit, he played a part in those players being here.
Look in the mirror Lou.  It's you bro !!

[HoosierCat]

Today's fun fact:

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Burrow is the first QB in NFL history to throw for at least 300 yards with at least three touchdown passes and no interceptions in back-to-back games, but lose both in regulation

 

[volcom69]

2 hours ago, COB said:

Until we get a new owner, this is it.  

Yea this is as good as it gets!! Unless this team catches breaks and things go there way, this is who they are. They can’t overcome bad things that happen in games, so they end up just losing. It’s so frustrating anymore. 

[Stripes]

I never really participate in the highest-level/owner-level discourse, because three years ago I saw this team come within a phantom defensive holding flag of a Lombardi Trophy. I know they're capable of it.

They just cannot be missing on so many draft picks if their methods are going to work. That means two things to me at the organizational level: stop allowing Duke Tobin to be an invulnerable member of the Brown family and move on and/or hire more than three scouts FFS.

That ignores the coaching deficiencies. Those are a problem too.

[HoosierCat]

Looks like Turner is done for the season. Fractured clavicle. 
 

https://www.cincyjungle.com/2024/11/18/24299692/dj-turner-clavicle-injury-update-cincinnati-bengals-injuries

[gregcook68]

12 hours ago, ArmyBengal said:

Pretty much COB.  Sadly, pretty much.

The new owner has pretty much been running things the last few years so I don’t see that being a solution whatsoever!

Unless she is just biding time until he passes on so she doesn’t ‘hurt his feelings’ by using her grandpa’s approach and football mind!?

[Footballer]

After tonight, if you win next week, you'll be three games back of Pittsburgh and have three bad teams in a row. Pittsburgh has Philadelphia, Baltimore, and KC with the latter two on short rest after their rematch with Cleveland. 

[glasgowbengal]

8 hours ago, Footballer said:

After tonight, if you win next week, you'll be three games back of Pittsburgh and have three bad teams in a row. Pittsburgh has Philadelphia, Baltimore, and KC with the latter two on short rest after their rematch with Cleveland. 

Kinda stopped reading at “if you win next week” to be honest 

[ArmyBengal]

That's the God's honest truth right there Glasgow !!

Followed up with talk of playoffs.

Feasible?  Sure.  Probable?  Unlikely.
For reference, please see any and all discussion concerning our defense.
On second thought... VERY unlikely

I'm not going to lie, nothing would be more fun than a run, including a sweep of the Steelers to sneak into that last spot.  I just don't know how many more times I can muster up a glimmer of hope with this team only to have them snuff it out with GREAT force.  I feel like the beaten wife who keeps running back to the guy kicking the shit out of her because she knows he's going to change this time.