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Team is too focused to fall for the trap game. Also, I'd sit Ja'Marr and have him ready for the Ravens game on a short week. Our new 3 headed TE monster should give the Ravens a few problems. I'd also take our 4th and 5th receivers over any nickel and dime backs in the league

Pratt is the MVP of the defense. Play after play, game after game. The little things he does that at times don’t show up on a stat sheet are nothing short of amazing. The instincts of Vontaze Burfict, with the discipline of Takeo Spikes. Definitely a favorite on defense along with CTB, Logan, Reader, Hendrickson, Awuzie. Damn that’s a lot of favorites lol

The artist's name is Isobel Hamilton. She and I have become friends on Twitter / X.... she's a Bengal fan living in Nova Scotia who originally hails from Scotland. To my knowledge she's never been to a game, she just picked the Bengals back in the 80's as "her team" and has stuck with us through good times and bad. She's a professional painter who also does weekly Bengal-themed images linked to each week's matchup. She began during our 2022 playoff run and has continued throughout the current season. Her work is outstanding. She sells reprints in various sizes, as well as some on 1/4"-thick aluminum I bought the entire 2022 series and have had them framed, and will buy the 2023 series shortly. I recommend them highly. She's also working on a 2024 calendar ("Cincinnatus: The Gentleman Tiger") using images she's already created, it's available for presale and 25% of the purchase price goes to an Ohio animal rescue - Perfect Imperfect Pet. Support your team, an independent artist, and a local charity, all with one purchase! I've ordered one for myself and a handful of others for Christmas gifts. https://isobelhamilton.com/ is her primary "I'm an artist" page https://isobelhamilton.art/ is focused on her Bengal prints. I've invited her and her husband to attend a game next season as my guest - its the least I can do for someone doing so much amazing work propping up my favorite team.

Jason Pierre-Paul signing with the Dolphins. No word on if his index finger will join them.

They should fire their midget QB who they drafted instead of Stroud.

Remember this was after 10 days to prepare. Everyone knew Pitt was shitty, offense was horrible….proceeded to give up 450+ yds….how? To Kenny Pickett and Najee Harris? Lolololololol

News flash...football is dangerous and causes injuries to the players.... Also, the Harbaugh Brothers are douche bags, now back to your regularly scheduled programming...

Yep. Can't wait to see what Col Joseph Lee Burrow has to say to Father or Mother this week. Dearest Father. Sunday we were ravaged by an upstart rag tag mob of Texas ruffians victims of out own overconfidence and looking ahead to the battlefield Thursday night in Nevermore and the evasive Rat, Lemur. My usually trusty sidearm misfired twice adding to our woes. We thought the game was won after the first skirmish and did not get back into battle until the final two and a half minutes only to have our hopes dashed by the usually reliable Sgt Boyd dropping a dookie in his bed roll . Also dropping other things elsewhere. In the words of my trusted adjunct, Maj Chase, "Someone else has got to make plays". Love to mother and I will have your old uniform jacket back to you as soon as Pvt Volson is finished cleaning it. Joseph

Letting a journeyman RB torch the defense for 150 yards is more concerning. The Texans used max protection for Stroud all game and he continued to find WIDE OPEN receivers when he needed to. Not having a spy on him on his TD run was another huge mistake. Lou A. underestimated Stroud ability to read defenses and paid dearly for it.

I’m shipping OUT from Boston! Through security and enjoying a drink (or two) in the Delta lounge and should be pulling back from the gate in about 50 minutes. Looking forward to being at the stadium on Sunday…didn’t think it was going to happen this year… Im trusting that my current streak of 5 winning games while in attendance will continue to grow 🤞

You're entitled to that opinion. But I disagree. When the fans ask to "listen in" on what the game sounds like, they need to be prepared to hear it in all it's unsanitized reality. Most coaches and players curse all practice and all game - so why hide that fact? If anything, I think it's naively puritan to bleep cursing in this day and age, especially as everyone listening just subconsciously fills in the gap anyway - and all kids are exposed to such words from the time they can speak. I like knowing that Shiesty drops F bombs like he's in Tarrantino flick ... makes him more relatable and human to me.

I don't think I've seen a Bengal LB ever make a better play in a big moment than Pratt's INT last week....until his punch out causing a fumble in the red zone. Wow

So, I spent earlier today doing some yard clean up. I was wearing my ancient Bengals sweat pants and working in the alley next to my house when a young lady pulled up next to me and said she loved my pants. I told her they were like 35 years old. She commented that they would be popular now and looked retro. I told her I had an equally old quilted jacket to go with them. She became a Bengals fan when she went to UC and lived in Cincy for 10 years. We exchanged WHO-DEYs and she went on her way. The pants are probably older than her. 😂

Ryan Shazier leading with his head again........this time the other head. https://www.tmz.com/2023/11/29/ryan-shazier-wife-accuses-es-nfl-star-cheating-exposes-alleged-texts-with-woman/?adid=share-tw

That's not happening, Taylor is not getting fired with Burrow out for the year. The franchise loves this guy despite his shortcomings and they are extremely loyal, they gave Marvin 15 years and the opportunity to go 0-7 in the playoffs, Taylor went to 2 AFC championship games and a Super Bowl.

I don't think anyone expects the team to look the same without JB but it would probably be good if they still looked like something. They're completely lost & adrift. The rest of the NFL sees this, they know the Bengals can't and won't run the ball, so they paint a bullseye on him. The fact he's won so many games despite this is remarkable but if his legacy is going to be more than losing a Superbowl the Bengals FO is going to have to do more and tolerate less. The problem with that is in an organization where so many people are in top positions because of who they're related to, little things like actually being good or even competent at one's job becomes seconday and that mentality rubs off on everyone down the line. I fear that after paying him a quarter billion they expect him to keep carrying the entire franchise on his back until he finally gives out for good.

That's debatable, Burrow fell into his lap and advocated for Chase. Without Burrow Taylor is a awful HC, his record without Burrow is abysmal.

actually if you dont hang your defense out to dry with 37min to 22 min time of procession it wouldnt be so frickin bad, the entire offense needs to give 1/3 of their game day checks to the defense. absolutely pitiful play by the offense as a team.

Refs are the Squeelers 12th man ...

That’s WITH Chase, Higgins, Boyd, Mixon etc…. He still can’t do anything against NFL defenses without Burrow. Simply incapable.

Can we sign Burfict for the next match against these assholes?

Tearing a calf muscle all on his own with no one near him? Then playing hurt. Shocked Myles Garrett didn't put him out for the year the first game and everyone blame it on Volson. I am changing my tune from injury prone to snake bit going all the way back to the pic someone posted of the broken hand at OSU. The occurrences that keep him off the field whatever they may be is a... concern. The Curse of Crystal Perry? He should not have played in those first few games. That's on Zac for being wishy washy. Dumpster diving free agency for OLmen and drafting Milquetoast Murphy rather than. taking an aggressive stab at improving The Franchise's protection is lunacy and on The Powers that Be. this season they have spent more time on The Game Day Experience than developing the team. Ain't gonna happen but what I would like to see is them trade Mild Murphy for hopefully a second but probably third round pick and use that pick to move up in the first round and get a real glass eater. OF COURSE... they would probably use the pick to trade up for a wide receiver. Why? Because we're Bengals, son.

If they suck at drafting OL the solution is to get rid of the people that suck at drafting OL, not just give up. Not a single OL pick in last year's draft, knowing the RT was sketchy and headed to FA anyway, knowing the C is getting old, knowing the LG is shaky, and knowing there's not a quality backup or anyone with real potential anywhere in the bunch. They signed a new LT that's honestly been just OK and called it a day. They stuck their heads in the sand and chose happy thoughts & here we are, again, with an injured QB. Makes zero sense to me.

Or keep Tee and trade up for the baddest ass OT in the draft to protect Joe while he throws to Tee. And Ja'Marr.

70 years old here, old as dirt. Born in 1953. Dad and I were Browns fans until PB decided to start Bengals in 1968! Dad really liked PB and since Cincy was just 50 miles down I75 we decided to switch from Browns to Bengals. Thoroughly convinced this franchise is snake bit! I thought the curse might have been lifted in 2021 until the phantom holding call on Logan Wilson! The zebras let these teams play the whole game with no call penalties flying on both teams! I guess things weren’t going as planned so zebras started throwing flags! Burrow has definitely helped because they won 5 playoff games in 2021 and 2022, the same number they won in the first 52 years! It looks like it’s now 55 years and counting that us Bengal fans can say that famous chant, “Well there’s always next year!”🙄

I'm admittedly biased, having watched and rooted for AJ in St Louis during the XFL season this spring, but I would love to see what he can bring to the team. He's a ten-year vet (yes, seriously) having been drafted in 2014. Played 4 seasons for us (2014-17) then bouncing around other teams for the next 4 seasons ('18 OAK, '19-20 HOU, '21 ATL) before setting all sorts of records in the XFL for the BattleHawks. Granted, the XFL is a developmental league full of players of sub-NFL quality, but McCarron's numbers were impressive - 203/295 for 2150 and a 24-6 TD-INT ratio in 9 games. That projects to 4060 yards and 45 TDs over a 17 game season. Important to remember that even though he was playing against XFL defenses, he was also playing behind an XFL OL and had XFL receivers, so discounting his performance due to the quality of the players around him, while fair, doesn't necessarily tell the whole story. IMO, the biggest takeaway is that he has recent on field experience and demonstrated leadership - something that I believe the Bengals would benefit from. Would McCarron be able to step onto the field at Paycor and make everyone forget about Burrow? Of course not. There's a reason McCarron has been a perineal backup QB and never found real success until playing in the XFL - but he could bring a level of maturity and leadership to the team right now. And never forget, when Andy went down during the 2015 playoff race, AJ started the final three games (going 2-1) and nearly led the team to a first round playoff victory in the Burfict/Jones wildcard game. I like Jake Browning - but I want to see AJ get a chance. And if they show his wife on TV, that's definitely a bonus.

The last thing they will do is bring in one of those long-washed veterans for a 7-game rental. No real reason to waste the time. If all the other “weapons” they supposedly had can get out of their own injury straitjacket s, the game manager Jake (not State Farm) and AJ might be able to oversee an unanticipated run. Defense congeals and holds teams down…Mixon runs…Tee gets back in the field. They could maybe squeeze those 5 wins out of 7 for the playoffs. Stranger things have happened

If the league DOES punish the Bengals, I would expect our next injury report to include EVERY SINGLE PLAYER: J Browning - sore bicep AJ McCarton - splinter (from clipboard) J Burrow - sprained wrist J Mixon - bruise on right leg T Williams - ouchie on left pinky finger O Brown - sore ankle Volson - headache T Karras - stomach ache A Cappa - stuffy nose J Williams - hangnail J Chase - back bruise T Boyd - finger contusion T Higgins - knee T Irwin - little toe C Jones - right ear Iosivas - ankle I Smith - big toe Hudson - sore knee D Sample - scratch on arm Wilcox - splinter (from bench) T Hendrickson - hyperextended knee M Murphy - bruise on left forearm Sample - abrasion on right leg Hubbard - ankle Osaia - poison ivy Carter - sore quad BJ Hill - migraine DJ Reader - rug burn J Pratt - sore hand Wilson - bruised hip Bailey - sore calf muscle C Taylor-Britt - knee Turner - earache D Hill - groin Battle - abrasion on calf N Scott - hangover Robbins - sore leg muscles McPherson - sunburn etc. etc. etc.

Getting old. Don't have a lot of "Next Year's" left in me. 😞

Out for the year *(should be in prison)

Definitely not fixing games though, that's just crazytalk. They need "New York" to ensure the integrities.

Special teams for bills can’t count cost them game. Bills had 12 players on a missed field goal by broncos. Broncos kicked again I miss perine bengals should have paid him to stay. I would have cut carman gave perine his money.

Just got back home. Y'all saw the same game I did so I won't bother with any analysis. Let's just say that Houston tried really really hard at the end to lose this game and we refused to let them. Two observations: (1) Bob Trumpy was Ruler today. I haven't seen him in a decade and would never have guessed how far he has physically declined. He need to be prioritized for ROH enshrinement while he's still with us - we cannot allow what Canton did to Ken Riley to happen in Cincy to Trumpy. (2) Nobody took me up on my spare ticket, so I ended up taking Manti Te'o's girlfriend.

You maybe can blame the play calling and preparation on Taylor, but I didn’t see him dropping balls that hit him in the hands or throwing into triple coverage. I didn’t see him not wrapping up running backs and WRs and letting them getting a ton of yards after initial contact. There were just too many uncharacteristic mistakes on both sides of the ball.

Joe Burrow Mic'd Up “That’s A First Down Brother” l Joe Burrow Mic'd Up.mp4

^ The worst uni combo because the white pants with black stripes do not go with the black jersey with orange stripes. My OCD hates it. The white "zebra" pants should only be worn with the white jersey.

The only time that “under” is correct is when you have a cat like this…

Absolutely true. I complain about the "game day experience" being annoying and distracting from the game itself, getting all the drunks and day trippers fired up and not so much about what was going on on the field, getting dressed up and taking selfies, etc. BUT this was totally awesome. Disappointed in how little national coverage I have seen of this and think it it was the Patriots or Cowboys or a Florida team the media would be downright orgasmic.

Today is a good day to be a Bengal's fan.

Yes and Josh Allen was considered top 3 AFC QBs until he faced this tenacious defense led by the Mad Scientist. Love Stroud but our D will be too much for him.

None of this breaks my heart. 💔

Ickey Woods, Joe Kelly and Vontez were at our hotel. Joe Kelly is a class act.

Knight was a good coach but also a complete asshole, he wouldn't have been able to get away with half the shit he did in today's society He is the definition of white privilege and many of the things that he did would have gotten many other non-white men fired including but not limited to: Punching a police officer Say this about rape on national TV - "Knight said: "I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it." Using a whip to discipline a black player in front of the media and refusing to apologize when asked to by the NAACP, then mocking them during the game by using a towel fake whip the same player...what a jokester..amirite?? Fighting with an opposing team's fan in the lobby of a hotel after a game Choking a player during practice Assaulting a student who dared call him by his last name Knight was a bully who used his stature and success at IU to do whatever the hell he wanted whenever he wanted and that's what got him fired. He was a good basketball coach but a shitty person who took advantage of vulnerable student-athletes by physically and verbally abusing them.

He goes up against Tee Higgins in practice every day. Tee is what- 6'5"? Going up against Chase and Higgins in practice every day can only help all of the youth in the secondary-not just Turner.