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Bleeds Orange

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  1. Although we have the head to head against Buffalo, ties involving more than two teams are different with regard to tie breakers. Case in point: The Colts are currently in and the Bengals are out despite having the same records and the Bengals owning the head to head. The Bills win just keeps one more team involved in the six-team logjam, so I figure having them drop back out of the pack was better. In another scenario, they finish 11-6 and the Bengals finish 10-7. A loss today may have put them tied with the Bengals at 10-7, with the Bengals winning that head to head, rather than them getting the playoff spot due to a better overall record. We likely have no fight with KC in the playoff-seeding race this year, but we do with Buffalo, thus my assumption that it would be better that they had lost.
  2. Didn't somebody cost the Chiefs a touchdown and a win in the AFC Championship game by lining up in the neutral zone against the Patriots a few years ago?
  3. Bengals really could've used a Chiefs win over Buffalo today. I was rooting for KC, although it made me throw up in my mouth a bit. Then when they showed Mahomes wife and the pop singer girlfriend of 87, I wasn't sure I could do it. I guess there was something good to come of either outcome.
  4. I wonder if the "Jake Browning: Go" part has changed since Monday night.
  5. I just want him to go away, but sadly, he'll be a public figure long after retirement. If I see one more photo of him and the pop singer, I'll throw up my green bean casserole and slice of cranberry sauce.
  6. Does the AFC not exist? Thanksgiving NFC Teams: 6 Thanksgiving AFC Teams: 0 I just can't get that interested in NFC intraconference games. Sure I like/dislike some teams more than others, but it's hard for me to care unless the outcome directly affects the Bengals or the AFC. If they're going to insist on Detroit and Dallas hosting every time, at least give us AFC-NFC matchups.
  7. It can wreak havoc for fans who have hotel reservations that cannot be adjusted this late, especially if every desirable hotel is booked. And then there is the issue of time off work, etc. While I sympathize with the fans as stated above, I agree that the Bengals have a better chance of winning a routine Sunday 1:00pm game than they do with the stadium rocking under the lights and with the Jaguars fully focused. Plus I hate for them to be in front of a national audience if they're going to suck.
  8. Like most/many, I had Houston as a win and tonight as a loss. But I'm feeling decent about their chances tonight, at this point. Maybe it's because I'm in denial that they may actually miss the playoffs, and because they have risen up from this type situation two years in a row. I am weary of the "must win" stuff on Twitter. That phrase is SO overused and misused by people talking about all teams in all leagues. Even with a loss, they can get to 10-7 with 5-2 the rest of the way. You'd think 10-7 would get in, but it may not this year, depending on tiebreakers. If it's not our year (again), I just have two wishes: 1. Kansas City does not make it to the Super Bowl 2. Pittsburgh does not win a playoff game
  9. Surprisingly to me, the Clowns are still favored in that game, although the line has moved from -2.5 to -1.0 since the Watson news. Someone help me out here: if not for the bad spot on 4th down in the Stealers game against the Dolphins and the bad call on the backwards pass last Sunday, are the Stealers 4-5? Were those two calls game deciders?
  10. No one associated with an organization that has Travis Kelce playing on it has any room to talk about any other organization.
  11. Apparently we should not expect Ja'Marr Chase to set the franchise record for most receptions in a game every week.
  12. I assume we're all feeling better after what we saw yesterday, but even "if" Joe and the team are "back", the schedule isn't going to cut them many breaks. As always, some of it will have to do with who is injured on either side as well as "when" they catch particular teams, such as following a "wake up call" loss or an emotionally or physically taxing game. So, it's hard to predict this far out. But it will likely take 10-7 (8-4 the rest of the way) to get in. If we assume losses at San Francisco and at Taylor Swift's Place, that leaves 8-2 for the rest, which is a narrow margin of error. SEATTLE (3-1) @ San Francisco (5-0) BUFFALO (3-2) HOUSTON (2-3) @ Baltimore (3-2) PITTSBURGH (3-2) @ Jacksonville (3-2) INDIANAPOLIS (3-2) MINNESOTA (1-4) @ Pittsburgh (3-2) @ Taylor Swifts (4-1) CLEVELAND (2-2)
  13. I believe what Zac is saying. Joe has looked very good this season, really comfortable, especially yesterday. I have no reason to doubt Zac. Joe looks fine. Joe is fine. They'll be scoring six points a game instead of three points a game in no time.
  14. That would be 2-5, but regardless, I get the feeling the problems with this team go beyond a sore Burrow calf. I don't think it gets fixed in 2023.
  15. Yeah, because Usher was, like, really popular among many music consumers in 1998, so people of that era would be excited to see one of the most popular performers of their day doing the halftime show. The implication was that the NFL is about a quarter century late in choosing this performer. And yes, I'm aware that some of the same people alive in 1998 are still alive today. It was a feeble attempt at time travel humor or time travel sarcasm or something.
  16. The people of 1998 would be excited if they could time travel to February 2024.
  17. The only retort Pittsburgh fans on Twitter can give to the many cheap hit events their assholes have doled out over the decades is "But, Burfict..."
  18. Let's not forget these: Kevin Huber Suffers Broken Jaw: https://youtu.be/XIO1bDFJ4PE?feature=shared Antonio Brown Kicks Browns Punter: https://youtu.be/Z2DTio1-HMY?feature=shared
  19. I guess what I should have said is that, other than the brief Tim Couch era, I have never met a Browns fan, so I'm not aware of any in my area. So I don't have to put up with them, personally. Stealers and Cowboys fans, on the other hand, are very common.
  20. I am always against Pittsburgh unless their winning is certain to help the Bengals. I know folks in Ohio get tired of Browns fans, but outside of Ohio, they're hard to find. Stealers fans are everywhere and they are arrogant and obnoxious.
  21. 35 passing yards, 63 total yards of offense, 4 first downs, and one of those was by penalty. They showed some signs of life on that last drive, but the lack of offense will be their undoing again today. I just don't see them fixing it with 15 minutes in the locker room. I hope I'm wrong. And it would appear that, if they do manage to make it close, there are some men out on the field in striped shirts that will ensure that Baltimore gets the help they need to pull it out.
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