Bengals getting laughed at again

[Dadraftnick]

Sportsline.com has a story about the Bengals and it is more like the kind of story that was written when Shula or Coslet was coach.It talks about the "14 year playoff drought eclipsed by no one".If any of you had ideas about Simon wanting to come to Cincy after seeing the Eagles (his former team) pulverize the Bengals and reading something like this it would have to give him second thoughts. This is the kind of story an agent shows a player when is thinking about going somewhere.Besides,Profootball.com says he is excited about the idea of playing in Miami.A game like the one they played in Philly could start ball rolling agin to undermine what Marvin has been doing and erode confidence in a team already pretty fragile.The preseason and that game specifically already seem to have soured the national media on the team.The story does not make Bresnahan look to good either.I am not so sure of him myself. I wonder if Leslie Frazier would have brought the Eagles Pressure Deffense we saw last week instead of trying to create a hybrid with Marvins system that he not might still be here.Frazier did improve the D and cause turnovers and sacks.It does not seem like Marvin is happy with the way the guys on either side of the ball has played.

[blueridge]

Hey buddy, don't let it bother you. This isn't 2002. And give Bresnahan a chance(or at least one regular season game). In Marvin we trust!

[Stripes]

No matter how much progress we make as a team and franchise, we will continue to get laughed at until we make the playoffs, and probably even win a playoff game. In due time, my friends. This year?

[The_Next_Big_Thing]

I'll take a 14 year playoff drought over never having gone to the Superbowl at all. Plus, when was the last time the Cardinals went to the playoffs?

[Stripes]

I'll take a 14 year playoff drought over never having gone to the Superbowl at all. Plus, when was the last time the Cardinals went to the playoffs?

1999, may have been '98.

[Whur CHad At?]

The_Next_Big_Thing Posted on Aug 31 2005, 03:20 PM

  I'll take a 14 year playoff drought over never having gone to the Superbowl at all. Plus, when was the last time the Cardinals went to the playoffs?

I think it was either 1996 or 1997. I know Jake Plummer was their QB and they went 9-7

[Stripes]

I found it. The Cardinals made the playoffs after the 1998 season, and won the wild card game 20-7 over Dallas. They then lost the divisional game 41-21 to the 15-1 Minnesota Vikings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_playoffs,_1998-99

[jrandom42]

I found it. The Cardinals made the playoffs after the 1998 season, and won the wild card game 20-7 over Dallas. They then lost the divisional game 41-21 to the 15-1 Minnesota Vikings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_playoffs,_1998-99

And before that, the last time they were in the playoffs was 1987. The last time they were in a championship game was when they were in Chicago, in 1947. Now THAT is a drought!

On a personal note, my Dad was a Cardinals fan for 52 years. He lived and died with the team (and his drunk and disorderly arrests rose and fell in the opposite direction of the team's record). Dad died two days after the Cardinals lost to Dallas in the '98 opener, and so never got to see them in the playoffs that year. The official cause was congestive heart failure, but Mom knew better. She said it was the heartbreak of way too many seasons of potential and subsequent failure. So when you Bengals fans talk about futility, just remember the long-suffering Cardinals fans. At least your team played in a couple of Superbowls in recent memory!

[Who?]

I found it.  The Cardinals made the playoffs after the 1998 season, and won the wild card game 20-7 over Dallas.  They then lost the divisional game 41-21 to the 15-1 Minnesota Vikings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_playoffs,_1998-99

And before that, the last time they were in the playoffs was 1987. The last time they were in a championship game was when they were in Chicago, in 1947. Now THAT is a drought!

On a personal note, my Dad was a Cardinals fan for 52 years. He lived and died with the team (and his drunk and disorderly arrests rose and fell in the opposite direction of the team's record). Dad died two days after the Cardinals lost to Dallas in the '98 opener, and so never got to see them in the playoffs that year. The official cause was congestive heart failure, but Mom knew better. She said it was the heartbreak of way too many seasons of potential and subsequent failure. So when you Bengals fans talk about futility, just remember the long-suffering Cardinals fans. At least your team played in a couple of Superbowls in recent memory!

Jeeze, i'm sorry to heard about your dad, he was a hardcore fan for his team just like me and my family are. No matter how many times the Brownies break our hearts we always love them.

[BengalszoneBilly]

It does not seem like Marvin is happy with the way the guys on either side of the ball has played.

C'mon. How could he be? Except for a few plays by rookies and 3rd stringers here and there, it's been a preseason without anything really outstanding worth remembering.

Then again, last years awesome victory over the Pats gave us all a big boner that nose dived into the turf soon after the regular season started, so who the hell really knows? I sure as hell don't. I'm still pulling clumps of turf off my rod.