Jump to content


Leaderboard

Popular Content

Showing content with the highest reputation since 10/09/2024 in all areas

  1. You're right, it's no one's fault and we are wrong to think anything should change. 100% bad luck. 🙄
    9 points
  2. Burton, this is not what the team had in mind when they said you'd "play the slot"
    8 points
  3. People speak of their team with great hyperbole and emotion in the heat of the moment during games. Oddly enough, it’s therapeutic. I personally consider your “attacks” on many of those posts hours later as both rude and very disingenuous. But maybe that’s just me.
    8 points
  4. The defense hald a 'players only' meeting this week to address the bad play. I heard the safeties were late to the meeting.
    8 points
  5. I know everyone is pissed, but you all need to chill. No fucking threats towards other members. I am happy to give you time off.
    7 points
  6. That sounds like the type of player you want to sign to a long-term deal, but what do I know
    7 points
  7. Apologize if this topic has already been beaten to death (as I'm sure most of you are happy about, I don't come here that often anymore), but anybody notice that Baker Mayfield is kicking ass now? All the while Deshaun Cosby is sucking ass for the Clowns. Pure hilarity. couldn't happen to a more deserving fanbase.
    7 points
  8. Please Lou - PLEASE - don't let Groper Cleveland resurrect his career this weekend.
    7 points
  9. That’s my take on the hours-later replies to heat-of-the-moment posts. The six likes and one ❤️ reactions to my post would indicate (at least to me) that I’m not the only one that feels that way. Oh, well. No biggie. This is still THE BEST place to get Bengals-related news…and we ALL want the Bengals to win (well, most of us). 🦗
    7 points
  10. Go Eagles beat The Perverts Go Washington beat the Rats Go Las Vegas Sois beat the Squeelies Go Us beat the Gnats... by 3.5 points at least.
    7 points
  11. Jeez, did you put your pad on upside down this morning?? Thanks for adding so much to the conversation.
    6 points
  12. I continue, as an ex-coach, to be completely aghast at Zac Taylor's play calling. I have never liked it, but this year has been particularly bad. You have a generational talent in Joe Burrow and two of the leagues top guys on the outside, and your offense is based around rub routes to the TE?? You run the ball twice to run an empty set with no threat of the run on 3rd and 2? What is the plan?? What guy on their defense are you going to stress? Are you making them fear Chase long so they can't cover him short? Make the LB's get depth to open up the run? Why are you stacking Geisecki and Chase on rub routes? Chase can't get open on his own? You can't run a dagger or levels concept there? You've heard over Cover Two and the route concepts that beat it, right?? You know what a slant sail combo is and how it works... I mean, g'dam! Lesser coaches have built entire offenses around a talent combo like Chase and Burrow with 9 other guys who should be bagging groceries. Zac Taylor seems to think they'll forget about him and we can sneak in a 4 yard slant here and there. It's maddening. The run game is uncreative. The pass game is based around guys posting up in Zone and we just look plain lost against man coverage. Big bodies like Yoshi and Geisecki are criminally misused... Today should have been a pretty easy one read and go day. Most days should if you can set up a two man game with Chase/Slot, Chase/TE route concepts. As someone who is generally wise enough to defer to the fact that Zac is an NFL head coach and I'm not... WTF bro?? How f-king hard can this be??? I mean, you do understand the basics of running an NFL offense, right?? Deception, stressing their weakest player, exploiting mismatches, play action... These terms ring a bell, right??
    6 points
  13. Fumbles happen. Not playing through the whistle is a choice. Going for it twice with 2 yards to go and calling go routes to an unreliable rookie is a choice. Not gameplanning your #1 receiver with the game on the line is a choice. Playing soft cover 3 for the entire second half is a choice. Mistakes happen. I'm a LOT more concerned about the choices made in this game.
    5 points
  14. In all honesty, why is this guy still here? All he does is come to attack other people? He adds zero to any discussion. It’s pathetic in its own way, but why doesn’t he get a ban? I’ve been warned in the past for much less.
    5 points
  15. 5 points
  16. And he’s on the injury report. Questionable.
    5 points
  17. I broke this down earlier in the week... CTB passes Brown off to no one. Either Stone is playing too deep because he doesn't know the play, or CTB should have carried the guy. Lou: What???? Backup a sec... What he thinks went wrong on that play was that Gaither didn't give up on the outlet route/screen to take their #1 receiver 16 yards downfield? So Brown brings him inside and Barkley gets to steamroll CTB? HOW is that the call against a single weak side receiver? I worked for the government for over a decade, and that is still one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Seriously, we need better coaches. If you look at that and your take away is that the only guy actually covering someone on that side of the field wasn't covering him soft enough... We're in trouble boys. You have three other guys standing there covering nothing but grass.
    5 points
  18. I think an important thing to look at is that The Bengals were supposedly looking at their best chance to go to the Super Bowl this year, and we have 65 Million in cap space next year. We still have $10M this year that could have been spent on not getting second tier FA's. The Bills, Ravens, and Chiefs all just made midseason trades... Spending next year's draft capital for today's success. Troy and Katie would sooner eat a turd. If we're not resigning both Tee and Chase, who are we saving it for? $65M? Who else are we worried about signing? Face it... We root for a team that is always a little bit less invested than the competition. The fish rots from the head down. We have coaches who don't feel the heat. We have players who aren't learning to be pro's playing for a glorified AA team. We have owners who's goal is to be "competitive". This is all Mike and Katie do, and they will never feel the burning rage Jerry Jones feels after a loss. The Brown family is worse than just cheap or poor... They don't want it enough. In one of the most competitive sports leagues in the world. And that is reflected in our coaching, our roster, and our performance on the field. The Bengals go out and play every Sunday with one hand tied behind their backs, and unless Katie is kicked in the head by a horse, always will. We fans root for the perpetual longshot. We're always working with 90% of what the other guy has. The fact that they're cold and impersonal is just a cherry on top. That's just the way it is. Everything else is the normal ebb and flow of the NFL balancing itself with high draft picks for crappy teams and a salary cap that forces them to spend a minimum. They even get a good FA or two on accident every so often.
    5 points
  19. The Chiefs just made an in season trade to bolster their pass rush. Katie just went to Kroger because Tuesdays are double-coupon days.
    5 points
  20. Fans that will continually throw cash at ownership for season tickets/seat licenses/team paraphernalia knowing damn well ahead of time that ownership isn't going to do a single thing to try improve or settle for mediocrity is why that ownership continues to operate the way they do. They're enablers! Apparently if you disagree with them, then you're a "sad sack". The Bengals are playing a LAST PLACE schedule with probably the 2nd best QB in the league and are 3-5 overall and 0-4 AT HOME yet doing absolutely NOTHING to try to improve the team! They're coasting/settling with a mediocre team while a team like the Chiefs, who have won the last 2 SB's and are the only undefeated team in the league, are making moves left and right to try to continually improve! Last year we finished 9-8 with our backup QB so you'd think with Burrow playing, we'd show at least a little improvement but we'd have to finish the season 6-3 just to match last season's record and I have little to zero faith in them even doing that but at least I'm not financially invested in this mess.
    5 points
  21. Reading between the lines I think he's saying they should fire Duke Tobin instead? I don't think Troy Blackburn is VP because of his extensive football acumen either, having worked his way up from.. er.. Fiancé?
    5 points
  22. Terrible take. Reality opinion: Burrow is the best QB in the NFL and without him this team would go 1-16 and Zac would be the QB coach at Tulane. Burrow is so good that we actually think this is a full football team. When it's really Burrow and Ja'Marr trying to pull magic out of a hat every week with high school quality coaching and below average surrounding talent.
    5 points
  23. Here is something positive about Volson, at least in terms of availability. The Bengals have played 44 games (including playoffs) since Volson was a rookie, and he has started every single game. Moreover, he has taken a higher percentage of scrimmage snaps in that time than any other Bengals player. Has he even missed any snaps at all since he was drafted? He took 100% of scrimmage snaps last year, and possibly did as a rookie too. In fact, Volson may have taken a higher percentage of snaps than any other offensive lineman in his rookie class, regardless of position. If the Bengals are on offense, then Volson is in the game. Whatever else you might want to say about Volson, no one can deny that the dude has been durable as hell.
    5 points
  24. Nate Burleson propping up Chubb’s return like it was great. 11 rushes, 22 yards. Whoopie! 🙄
    5 points
  25. At game first time in MetLife . Giants fans seem nice but it’s pregame.
    5 points
  26. No one could have foreseen that a DL combination of Sheldon Rankins and some mid-round rookies would be a problem. No one is to blame. No one is ever to blame. The Bengals are the only team to have injured players and you are all stupid and idiots and poo-poo heads if you think anyone in the organization could possibly do anything at all to compensate for those injuries. May as well just lay down and die & hope there are no injuries next year, particularly to crucial spots like the 3rd string DL.
    5 points
  27. This thread is goofy. I guess some of y'all are newer here but if you see a post from @soisyou should automatically assume you're being trolled. 😆 No offense, I am amused.
    5 points
  28. Cleveland knew he was a creep but chose to overlook it. I hope that decision continues to haunt them for years to come.
    5 points
  29. Florio has a point here. I hate to see it from players, especially players I don't like, but being polite isn't doing Burrow or the Bengals any favors. Being a whiny ass works wonders for the quarterback of the team in Kansas City.
    4 points
  30. Nope. The plays he calls when he thinks a QB might run. I knew what I meant, I didn't need your help.
    4 points
  31. Yeah … if your offense can’t produce against the Bengals’ defense, you’ve got a problem …
    4 points
  32. Absurd to me that anyone but the NFL should be paying for NFL stadiums. Give them a break on the land, zoning, taxes etc.. Sure, that makes sense and doesn't really cost the city/county if having a team is so great for the local economy. That's a net gain. Beyond that though they can pound sand. The NFL and Bengals specifically can afford a dome a hell of a lot easier than the city. As long as there are homeless camps under a bridge half a mile away it's bordering on obscene to even consider, frankly.
    4 points
  33. Meanwhile, this is Joe Burrow when he sees the pass rush…
    4 points
  34. Then they dropped from 12th to 21st in the 2018 draft in return for Cordy Glenn, where they chose Billy Price. Whitworth was just the start of an avalanche of disasters on the OL.
    4 points
  35. I am there with the defense and getting there overall. Too many of the same mistakes again and again. You watch other teams dictate and be creative and find ways to do things with less, and then you see this team throw to 2 WRs. At some point you just get stale....I think we are there on offense. If I had to gamble I would bet that Taylor stays and Anarumo is replaced by Brandon Staley at years end....and Taylor is replaced after 2025. Statistically the offense seems fine overall but it's so one sided and lacks so much creativity that you are wasting Burrow. You also shouldn't need 2 top 15 WRs to succeed.
    4 points
  36. The CFT just lost their #1 WR, and then promptly went out and beat the Ravens, scoring 29 points and throwing for 334 yards with their 3rd-string QB. Obviously the situations are not identical, but not all teams' chances of winning vanish like a snowflake in a pizza oven when they suddenly find themselves down a key player or two. We, on the other hand....
    4 points
  37. Hope everyone is able to enjoy the rest of your miserable Sunday afternoon.
    4 points
  38. May whatever approach they opt for turn out worse than anyone could possibly have anticipated.
    4 points
  39. Everyone is talking about Myles Garrett against our OL. The Browns’ OL is currently made of Swiss cheese and spit. Combined with Deshaun Watson’s propensity to hold on to the ball too long, and I think our defense can get to him, too. Also, I think Chubb is going to be on a pitch count, and will he be able to run as effectively behind the current OL? I’ve watched a lot of the Browns this year and their running game isn’t there.
    4 points
  40. The issue here may be - speculating now - that in order for to learn from one's mistakes we must first admit they were mistakes. So long as the team is just "one or two bad bounces" away from being 5-0 (or whatever), improvement remains elusive.
    4 points
×
×
  • Create New...