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i oddly do not give a shit what we do at punter, he seemed to improve over the year, but stats dont show much of that..

aside from jokic, its usually the scrappy guys, the Watsons, Braun, and rookie Julian Strawther(finally back form injury). Murray he likes a lot, but Murray is kind of an asshole with fans and the media, so he ends up a lot less likeable. wizards suck, smoke them hoes. warriors aint shit, its really funny playing them, they can get how early and kill the willpower of opponents and coast to victories, they dance, shimmy, talk shit, flex, even in the first qtr of games, youd think theyd learn thats not the path against us. they can go up 18 and we are like, whatever man, as long as its within 12 by the 8 minute mark in the 4th we are gonna beat you. 30+ point swing victory against the warrios and 30+ point swing win against the Kings last night. i was so confused how the kings had beat us 3 straight times this year, then i looked, first two were second night of road back to backs, and third was game before all star with 2 starters sitting. we were rested, healthy, and Dearon fox got the serbian flu (term for guys who sit when they have to play in denver due to jokic and altitude) and we smoked those dudes, we would have beat them by 60 if we played starters in the 4th. Jokic had his 4th straight triple double, i THINK all 4 were accomplished in 3 qters, not needing stats in the 4th for get them.. Jokic is a top 5 nba player in the history of the NBA. graymond green hopped on his podcast after the warriors game talking about jokic, tail between his legs, said he got his ass kicked flat out, 32/16/16 from jokic. thats goat level stat lines against one of the greatest defenders in nba history. home back to back tonight vs Miami. hopefully everyone plays and we arent too tired, its on TNT, Finals rematch. could get sloppy. heat are motivated, we are on a back to back, and they are in the east so losing isnt a big deal overall, so im nervous we play uninspired.. but we do need to fight for the 1 seed 2.5 games back currently.

i got my seats back. talked to 3 people and got pumped to a manager finally and it took some selling i had to pull out all the stops, all truthful, but i had to play the logic, the heart strings, the begging, and they gave in, its possible i will lose a set next year and keep a set.. but we shall see. after the fact the things that was frustrating me the most that caused my rage, is im getting older, my health isnt exactly great, and my kids are getting older, there arent going to be many years that i can spend this time with my oldest son, in a few years he is gonna have a demanding job, family, and maybe kids of his own, and fucking off to ohio to watch the bengals with me isnt gonna be possible. and the thought of the bengals stripping that away from me to appease some assholes on a wait list, assholes WHO DIDNT SUPPORT THEM WHEN SALES WERE DOWN, but want tickets now that they are good, theyd take that away from me for those fans? for no gain in their pocket? probably an emotional flounce but i was about ready to be done with this franchise. you cursed my life with andy dalton and now this??!?!? fool me once...

yea the terms and conditions changed stating they could do that, but man in 14 years ive had season tickets i have attended 95% of the games. yes, but who cares, there are people on the waitlist who just want to re-sell as well, they are losing NO money, the place is sold out. why fuck fans over a rare season occurrence. and why would they care if they get $6000 from me or $6000 from some asshole on the waitlist?

These motherfuckers. I have been a season ticket holder for a total of over 10 years, I have attended nearly 150 bengals games just at paul brown stadium. and i got an email today, that since i sold all of my tickets last year, that they were cancelling my account, taking my tickets away!!! what the fuck!!!

rough strenth of 3 games before the break, everyone was gassed, some guys sat. what to look for in the final 27 games for me: Christian Braun - looking for him to reign in the role back to dunk and defense mentality, cause havoc and be a pest, dunk on people to hurt their feelings. MPJ - he played the most games of any Nugget, which is incredible, but it hurt his shooting and he was super gassed, looking for hom to fine tune his skills and calm down and make it to the post season healthy. KCP - just get healthy, the nagging hamstring is a concern Jamal Murray - get in shape, stop being a fucking cunt to the media everyday, and get in fucking shape, for fucks sake. Jokic - stay healthy, get rest. Gordon - health, rest and Defense and dunks. Everyone - make free throws second worst in the league. would also like to see more Julian Strawther - not that he is healthy he needs to get that shot back.. he can win is regular season games and get starters rest if he can score off the bench. Jokic has had a triple double against all but 2 teams, the Wizrds and the Nuggets, so since he will hopefully never play against the nuggets, the last team he needs is washington, who we play thursday at home, time to check that box. also its 2/22 triple double, triple 2's.. its destiny. ill be in attendence, feels like i havent been to the arena in a month. they raised season ticket prices for next year 31% - FUCKING BRUTAL. just under $11,000 for 2024-2025 season. playoff invoice if they went 7 games in all rounds and won again is also $10k. finals tickets went up 50% wtf

tanking is such a rare occurrence, even though we did it for burrow, we did it without harming anyone we were keeping, the team needed to flip a ton of guys. so it made sense to just toss in young guys. but this team isnt that, tanking for a few draft spots, a 6-11 record, almost forces you to fire coaches for fan perspective, players who got benched are hurt with incentives and free agency, and as others said less people want to go to a team that was shit. truly tanking is for the worst 4-5 teams in the league desperate for a crumb of hope to save the franchise, regardless of who catches the downfall.

man the OL is a tough evaluation with the QB change, i felt Jake held the ball due to inexperience and had some sacks due to youth/experience problems. each joe and jake were sacked 24 times. they each kind of played half a season. but jake took 6 against the chiefs. i felt like they confused him in coverages and he ate it a bunch of times. QB SACKS per game: 2020 - 3.2/3.3 depends if you wanna devide it by the half he missed also, would be technically 3.3/game 2021 - 3.3 2022 - 2.6 2023 - 2.4 which is joe's stats and thats with his limited mobility, etc. so they are down nearly a sack a game. QB knockdowns is about 50/year over the last few, so thats 3-ish a game. with an ever changing and injured oline (and a fucking terrible LG) i dont know how to really evaluate. we are getting punked at LG, and the safety net of mixon who couldnt block the sun in a windowless basement, is my biggest concern.

we live in a maden hellworld where realities arent a factor i guess. 1. there arent very many good linemen in the NFL, college game has ruined them, someone here even posted an article about it here last year. 2. Drafting them is a crap shoot, roughly a 30% success rate. 3. the ones who are proven good are very expensive. like top WR expensive. 4. An Oline is only as good as its weakest link. wherever they line(as a team) must "help" the weak spot it opens vulnerabilities for those aroun the weakest link.(and by weakest link obviously its Volson, who fucking sucks.) Evidence for the above: 1. There are 32 OT's rated a 70 or above, there are 64 starting tackles in the NFL(50%). There are 16 guards rated a 70 or above, there are 64 starting guars (25%). 13 Centers rated 70 or above, 32 starters(40%). That lands you a 5% chance of having 5 starters on averages alone, above a rating of even 70.0 but please tell me more about how we need to go get 5 good starters and have some goo OL depth as well. 2. as stated many times, in first and second round drafted OL, 30% either earn a return contract for a 5th year OR are a starter elsewhere at that point. so less than 1 in 3 will still either be on the team(starting or not) or starting elsewhere. those are the numbers, it took over 4 hours to track down all of them and check their career status. 3. i mean you can just look that up, i guess but here are few: Ravens offensive lineman Ronnie Stanley: $19.8 million. Saints offensive lineman Ryan Ramczyk: $19.2 million. Vikings offensive lineman Brian O'Neill: $18.5 million. Falcons offensive lineman Jake Matthews: $18.5 million. 4. Also pretty common knowledge, not sure how to convince someone who doesnt think its true so is what it is.

you know what i can blame on volson? volson FUCKING SUCKS he is one of the worst linemen in the entire league. year after year now, one of the absolute worst.

putting his recent obvious big win aside, he is like 86-25 at michigan which as far as contenders go, isnt very good. ryan day for example, is 56-8, which is what like double the winning percentage or double the wins per loss or whatever? and is on the hot seat to get fired semi regularly. hell he didnt even make the college playoffs for 6 years. he is likely a good coach and he has always had some good success, the 49ers did in fact fire him, he seems like the guy who can come in and ramp up a squad once but doesnt maybe have what it takes to sustain it long term. Many coaches are like that, id put Vrabel in that category, he lifted the titans but couldnt get them over the hump. it would be interesting to know what that is in those type of coaches. is it that new players or first year or two buy in but once they hear the same old routine year after year they buy in a lot less? a personality that gets old? coaching is a wild business.

teams who watch brock purdy play football, and are like, hmmm can i pay jake browning $50 million over 6 years and pay star players around him, an give him easy safe targets but know he has the arm to make some big throws as needed. A jared Goff, Purdy, Mayfield without the picks, etc.

why would anyone want tannehill?

lmfao.

this is the worst thread in sports history.

yea he is gonna wait til next offseason.

the thought crossed my mind today that i wanted the ravens to win it so all their decent players that are free agents get fat paydays from other teams and they lose a bunch of key players. cowboys would be horrible.

williams is a dumbfuck, that aside, "fixing" the OL i think is a bit exagerated at this moment, Volson is a human trashcan of a talent, aside from that we have a very solid group, Nice guy and all, Volson is always the first one to help up the player the guy he was supposed to block tackled. but if we can upgrade there im fine with who we have, Jonah being the wild card, i know he wants to leave, i have a feeling his offers may possibly lead him back here. coming off a few poorly graded seasons with the reputation our OL room has, will not net him huge paydays i dont think. but volson fucking is terrible. The defense was behind the 8 ball this year, lost a ton of veteran leadership and the new veterans we brought in were so bad they got benched (Scott) so striclty just having te young guys having the experience and an offseason to grow theyll be better as a squad, we need to replace cheeto as the starting CB, he can be a extra guy coming on, but he got torched off and on all season. i think first round has got to be CB unless some free agent falls in our lap. well we were palying fuckboi ball early with Joes calf issue, then we were just losing all the time o running got ignored. i have minimal concerns about that. we DID fail at it, so you are technically correct, but i think the list of reasons behind it are probably acceptable.

a first round TE would be the dumbest fucking pick in the history of football. these next few months are going to be a shit show of slowpokes shaving any TE there is in our draft spots. OUR TE group produced: 84 Receptions, 668 yards, and 4 TD's, on a team that needed them to stay in and block most of the year when burrow as calf injured, ran through injuries to the TEs and finished off with a QB who had never really played before. there is no more wasted pick on this roster aside from QB, K, and MAYBE Safety, than a TE. pick value vs potential reward is dogshit. there was 1(one) 1,000 yard receiving TE this season. and only one had more than 6 TD's. With how shitty volson is, with us not likely able to keep all these WR's, with the CB room needing some big help, with likely needing to replace Reader, the mere thought of a TE in even the first three rounds seems batshit insane to me. Gimme: 1. CB/WR 2. WR/CB (whichever we didnt get in 1) 3. OL 4. DT 5. OL if there is a game changer Safety somehow id be open to that as well to put next to Dax, but im also fine watching Battle grow into his role.

Braun has been so up and down this year, they seem to be having him looking to expand his game during the regular season, its making fans frustrated but when its playoff time he is back to a Dunk & Defend role id imagine. Strawther now injured gonna miss some time. Watson is having a good time. Fun to watch him grow as a player this year, finally. he is crazy young still. Road/Home back to back game, back to back games are the worst sports product in any league. Teams are something like 35% win percentage on back to backs. and even worse on back to backs with travel. Game ends at 11pm local tim in golden state, land home at 4AM, get to homes at 5AM. 14 hrs before another game starts.. basically go to sleep wake and play again. its absolutely horrible. Nuggets have played more back to backs than anyone in the NBA. also no one on the nba has still palyed more games than them, some still as many as 5 fewer games played. absolute crime of a schedule. Beat the brakes off the pistons tonight, Cunningham was ruled out in the second qtr even ... now 2 days off.

sloppy defense, got the last second L. smacked around the Mavs like they were nothing. that was fun to watch. then beat the Raptors last night. sweet ass NBA scheduling with a Road home back to back with a 18 hr gap for travel even on xmas day, @ Hornets sunday then at home against warrios monday at 12:30 mountain time. Nets tomorrow night in brooklyn

playing fucking terrible defenses has been quite the bonus as well.

i was on team lose a bunch of game, i just wanted to miss the playoffs, HOWEVER. with Jake being a potential hot commodity and us haveing is ERFA right, he in a trade could make up the difference in draft pick range for us no problem. so now im just thinking, win as much as you can, young guys get the work, anything but the first place schedule is fine, we are better than most first place teams, so even the second place schedule is an improvement

this aged super good, lmao