Gremzz Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 I'm surprised. I was expecting two Shittsburgh games in the first three weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NativeTheory Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Jets and Broncos should be starting rookie QBs so better to play them early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mas_fuerte Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 newby Stealer troll.....sure he is relieved they won't have to face him....prayers were answered by the football Gods.Not a Stealer fan, just a new poster here. I love Burfict, I just don't see the point in crying about how the NFL is out to screw the Bengals, it gets tiring. It's the same when we hear Pitt players saying that they would have made a run at the Superbowl if Antonio Brown was healthy. It just comes across as whiny. Beat Pitt without Burfict and then it's a non-factor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooky Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 newby Stealer troll.....sure he is relieved they won't have to face him....prayers were answered by the football Gods.He said in another post that he's from bengals.com so there's a 50-50 chance he's a stealers fan. Or he might be southpaw reincarnated. Scoffing at any signs of impartiality from the league. Though being naive, thinks anybody that disagrees with him is an idiot crybaby. He was also a closet stealer fan, God rest his soul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mas_fuerte Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 He said in another post that he's from bengals.com so there's a 50-50 chance he's a stealers fan. Or he might be southpaw reincarnated. Scoffing at any signs of impartiality from the league. Though being naive, thinks anybody that disagrees with him is an idiot crybaby. He was also a closet stealer fan, God rest his soul.You've misread my posts - I'm not scoffing at impartiality from the NFL, we all know it's real. I'm saying that whining about it on a message board isn't going to change the fact that we play the Stealers in game 2 without Burfict, so let's just beat them and not play the victim of the NFL's impartiality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooky Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 You've misread my posts - I'm not scoffing at impartiality from the NFL, we all know it's real. I'm saying that whining about it on a message board isn't going to change the fact that we play the Stealers in game 2 without Burfict, so let's just beat them and not play the victim of the NFL's impartiality.Nothing we say on here is going to change anything, so why should we post about the draft, FA, roster or anything at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooky Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Jets and Broncos should be starting rookie QBs so better to play them early. It seems like Fitz will sign with the Jets eventually. Is anybody even looking at him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 You had to know the NFL would schedule us without Tez, ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tude Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 I'm surprised. I was expecting two Shittsburgh games in the first three weeks.Yeah I'm sure they thought about it but had to make sure they got one of the games with Burfict in the mix for prime time ratings. Fucking hypocrites.And since when is it written in stone that the Stealers get gifted a win/extra bye week at the end of every season by playing Cleveland? Five out of the six years since they mandated a division opponent for last game of the season they've gotten the Browns. Not that the NFL needed to be any more transparent... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bengaled Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 punish my ass. Punish your ass? What in the hell have they been teaching you up north? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Dub Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Lance Mcallister going in on the NFL scheduling bias on 700WLW right now. VB suspension, longest road opening game streak in NFL, London bullshit etc. Nice to hear La Cosa NFL getting called out by the local media for a change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Bunghole| Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Yeah, that many road games before the first home game is pretty shitty too. AND they take a home game from us. That's a pretty tough order for any team to overcome. We better be ready. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigboi Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 Rooney doubts Burfict-free game was extra punishment for Bengals Posted by Mike Florio on April 14, 2016, 11:20 PM EDT APBengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict absorbed a three-game suspension for an illegal hit that concussed Stealers receiver Antonio Brown, knocking him out of a divisional round game against the Broncos. As a result of the suspension, Burfict will miss the next chapter in the Bengals-Stealers rivalry. So was the scheduling of a Bengals-Stealers game in Week Two, during Burfict’s absence, intended to reflect extra punishment for the Bengals? “I doubt that,” Stealers owner Art Rooney said in quotes published on the team-owned website. “I’m sure the league wanted a game that would be an interesting game for us to open our season at home, and that certainly fits the bill in terms of renewing the rivalry with the Bengals early in the season.” It would have been much more interesting if it had come two weeks later, in lieu of the Sunday night game the Stealers will be hosting against the Chiefs. With Burfict due to miss three games, why shouldn’t one of those missed games happen against the team that saw its Super Bowl hopes dashed by not having Brown in a playoff game against the Broncos? Given that Denver couldn’t cover Brown when the teams played in Pittsburgh on December 20, it’s not a stretch to say the Stealers would have won with Brown. So if anyone deserves to catch the Bengals when they don’t have Burfict, it’s the Stealers. If anything, both Bengals-Stealers games should have been played in the first three weeks of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Dub Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 LMAO. Fuckin' Florio. Why not give the Stealers an extra SB trophy just for being so gosh-golly awesome? It'd only be fair!Someone on Twitter ask Whorio what Rooney's wrinkly ballsack tastes like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saphead Posted April 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 If anything, the Bengals should have to forfeit the 2 stealers games this year and give them a 1st round draft pick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Bunghole| Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 Wait. The OWNER of the Steelers doesn't think that Vontaze's suspension was intentional? What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschooler Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 Game-by-game stat check for 2016 Bengals schedule Posted Apr 14, 2016 Geoff HobsonEditorBengals.comFollow Me Blog A A Check out the numbers behind the sked. Check. Another road opener for Andy Dalton. Click here to view season schedule. SEP. 11: at JETS, 1 p.m. on CBS: Seventh straight opener on road. QB Andy Dalton has never opened at home and is 3-2 on Opening Day with wins at Cleveland, Baltimore, and Oakland with a total of six TD passes and three picks for a 94.8 passer rating on Opening Day. The Bengals’ last win in New York came over the Jets at Shea Stadium on Sept. 13, 1981. SEPT. 18: at PITTSBURGH, 1 p.m. on CBS: The first meeting since the Really Wild Card Game. The Bengals won’t have their defensive leader in WILL backer Vontaze Burfict, out for the first three games on an NFL suspension stemming from hit on Pittsburgh wide receiver Antonio Brown. Burfict has spearheaded a run defense that has been as nasty as the Heinz Field crowd in the last four games in Pittsburgh, when the Bengals have allowed the vaunted Pittsburgh running game just 3.3 yards per carry on the ground. SEPT. 25 DENVER, 1 p.m. on CBS: For the third time in five years, Pau Brown Stadium hosts the Super Bowl champion and the Bengals have wins over the Giants in 2012 and the Ravens in 2013. Since beating the Giants’ Eli Manning in 2012, they are 8-2 vs. Super Bowl-winning QBs at home, but, alas, the other Manning is retired. SEPT. 29 MIAMI, 8:25 p.m. NFL NETWORK (Thursday): The Bengals have won six straight September games at home with their last loss coming in the rookie Dalton’s PBS debut, 13-8, to San Francisco on Sept. 25, 2011. Even though he’s won AFC Player of the Month twice in October, September is Dalton’s best month when it comes to a passer rating of 96. The Bengals are also 12-5 with him in September. OCT. 9 at DALLAS, 4:25 p.m. CBS: Dalton goes home to play for the first time in his adopted city, where he now lives after starring next door in college in Fort Worth at Texas Christian. He brings the third best road record among active quarterbacks since 2011 (at .632 he’s behind only Alex Smith and Tom Brady) against Cowboys’ QB Tony Romo and his healthy .597 winning percentage in the House That Jerry Built. New Bengals wide receiver Brandon LaFell returns to Foxboro Oct. 16. OCT. 16 at NEW ENGLAND, 1 p.m. CBS: The Bengals need their defense to put up a roadblock on Brady. In their three games in Foxboro under head coach Marvin Lewis they are 0-3 while giving up 39 points per game with Brady throwing seven TD passes and no picks. It’s not the first time they’ve had back-to-back road games twice in the same season. This year they come in the first 35 days of the season. In 2013, when they won the AFC North, they came in 28 days in the middle of the season. And in ’14, when they lost the division title in the last game of the year, they won three straight on the road in November. OCT. 23 CLEVELAND, 1 p.m. CBS: Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis is 10-3 at PBS against Cleveland vs. 10 different starting quarterbacks. With Johnny Manziel no longer there and the Bengals never facing Josh McCown as a Brown, here is another one. Unless Austin Davis is starting by then. The Bengals have gone unbeaten in six straight October PBS games including the 37-37 tie with Carolina in 2014. The last October home loss came against the Stealers on Oct. 21, 2012, 24-17 OCT. 30 WASHINGTON (in London), 9:30 a.m., FOX: The Bengals’ first international game has an intramural flavor against head coach Jay Gruden, the Bengals offensive coordinator from 2011-2013. He knows about road shows. The most points the Bengals put up on the road in his three seasons were the 38 they registered in Washington during a 38-31 win on Sept. 23, 2012. NOV. 14 at GIANTS, 8:30 p.m. ESPN (Monday): The Bengals go in looking for their first road win ever against the Giants and in New Jersey. The Bengals have no one left from the team that beat Eli Manning when he was a rookie in 2004 at PBS. But they beat him as recently as 2012 and are 2-1 against him while holding him to one TD pass in three games for a 67.1 passer rating. That’s Manning’s par for the course against the AFC North. He’s 4-7 in his career against the division for a 69.1 passer rating and his fewest wins against any division. The only division that’s given him a tougher time is the NFC North, where he’s 10-11 with a 68.8 rating. NOV. 20 BUFFALO, 1 p.m. FOX: The last time Bills head coach Rex Ryan came to town, it was Oct. 27, 2013 and he was head coach of the Jets. Dalton fired a career-high five touchdown passes in the Bengals’ 49-9 victory, the first time that score had ever been achieved in NFL history. A.J. Green has eyed three "Miracles of Baltimore." NOV. 27 at BALTIMORE, 1 p.m. CBS: Bengals Pro Bowl wide receiver A.J. Green has borrowed the fourth quarter with principle at M&T Bank Stadium the last three seasons. In 2013 he caught a tying Hail Mary 51-yard TD pass on the last play of regulation. In 2014 his 77-yard TD catch with less than five minutes left gave the Bengals a come-from-behind Opening Day win and last season his 80-yard TD catch and seven-yard TD catch erased fourth-quarter deficits. In the three games he’s averaged 170 yards. DEC. 4 PHILADELPHIA, 1 p.m. FOX: Dalton and Lewis come into this season rolling against NFC foes. Lewis is particularly tough on them at PBS, where he has a 17-6-2 record. Dalton in his career has rung up nearly a triple digit passer rating against the NFC (99.2) with 38 TDs and 17 picks. He’s 7-2-1 at PBS, including last year’s stunning fourth-quarter rally down 24-7 that turned into a 27-24 OT win over two-time NFC champ Seattle, the only time in the last 535 NFL games a team has wiped out that big of a fourth-quarter deficit and win. New Browns head coach Hue Jackson hosts his big back on Dec. 11. DEC. 11 at CLEVELAND, 1 p.m. CBS: For his career in Cleveland, birthplace of the big back in the persons of Hall-of-Fame running backs Marion Motley and Jim Brown, the Bengals’ big back, Jeremy Hill, has 246 yards on 5.2 yards per bolt in his two games on the lake. Both came with Hue Jackson running the offense, but he’ll be on the other side of the lake as the Browns head coach. DEC. 18 PITTSBURGH, 8:30 p.m. NBC: In the last 30 PBS games dating back to Nov. 11, 2012, the Bengals are 22-7-1. Three of the losses have come to Pittsburgh. DEC. 24 at HOUSTON, 8:25 p.m. NFL Network (Saturday): A Christmas (Eve) story. Dalton got his first win in his hometown back in 2014, but’s it’s always been rocky for the most part against the Texans. Including the postseason he’s 1-4 against them with two TDs and six picks. JAN. 1 BALTIMORE, 1 p.m. CBS: It’s the first New Year’s Day game at PBS since 2012 against, whom else? This is the fifth time in the last six years the Ravens have been the foe in a PBS game that ends the regular season. Ravens QB Joe Flacco has struggled mightily ringing in the New Year or anything else in his career at PBS, where he has a passer rating of 59.0 with five TDs and 11 picks. Take away the game in his rookie year and he doesn’t have a 200-yard passing day in Cincy with just three TDs and 11 picks for a rating of 49.2 http://www.bengals.com/news/article-1/Game-by-game-stat-check-for-2016-Bengals-schedule/4e9903f4-fbf0-4539-8cf5-6a33d5e5ba03 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschooler Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 2016 Cincinnati Bengals game-by-game predictions Apr 15, 2016 Coley HarveyESPN Staff Writer Email print comment Since 2009, the Cincinnati Bengals have been road warriors on the NFL's opening weekend. That won't change this September, when they travel in back-to-back weeks before hosting the defending Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos. But as tough as the beginning of the Bengals' 2016 schedule might be, somehow, it sets up a familiar, favorable finish. Is another season with a double-digit win total on the horizon? Week 1: Sunday, Sept. 11 at New York Jets 1 p.m. ET The Bengals have a formidable defense, and the Jets could be handing the reigns to Geno Smith or some other new quarterback. It'll be tough for the Jets to score on a unit that ranked second in scoring defense in 2015. Record: 1-0 Week 2: Sunday, Sept. 18 at Pittsburgh Stealers, 1 p.m. ET In their first game against the Stealers since the bizarre finish to January's wild-card playoff loss, the Bengals will be without linebacker Vontaze Burfict. There had been a hope in Cincinnati that his return from a three-game suspension would coincide with the Bengals' first game against the Stealers, but it won't. The Bengals won last year's game in Pittsburgh, but they had Burfict that week. Consider this their first "L." Record: 1-1Andy Dalton and the Bengals should again reach double-digit wins and make it to the postseason. Aaron Doster/USA TODAY SportsWeek 3: Sunday, Sept. 25 vs. Denver Broncos, 1 p.m. ET At long last, Bengals fans get to see their team at home, as Cincinnati hosts the defending Super Bowl champion Broncos. They're a team the Bengals took to overtime in December before a botched snap from backup quarterback AJ McCarron effectively gave the Broncos a home win on a Monday. The Bengals hope McCarron isn't starting this time around. This home opener is expected to be the first time Andy Dalton has played in a game at Paul Brown Stadium that mattered since he broke his thumb against Pittsburgh in December. No Peyton Manning? No Brock Osweiler? No problem for the victorious Bengals. Record: 2-1 Week 4: Thursday, Sept. 29 vs. Miami Dolphins, 8:25 p.m. ET Burfict will be coming back just in time for a prime-time game. The eyes of the nation will be on him to see just what he and others have learned since their last under-the-lights tilt: January's playoff game against Pittsburgh. Has he altered parts of his game as promised? Will Adam Jones' composure no longer be a problem? Based on what the Bengals have been saying since two days after the playoff game, it doesn't appear they have anything to worry about ... at least not this week. Assistant coaches Kevin Coyle (Bengals), Vance Joseph (Dolphins) and Matt Burke (Dolphins) swapped locker rooms this offseason. Record: 3-1 Week 5: Sunday, Oct. 9 at Dallas Cowboys, 4:25 p.m. ET Cincinnati travels to Jerry's World for the first time since the 2013 preseason. Aside from that game, this will be Jones' first time playing in Dallas since he was cut by the Cowboys in 2009. Although the Cowboys scuffled to a 4-12 record last season, they spent much of it without quarterback Tony Romo and their top receiver (Dez Bryant). This Lone Star State trip might not be a walk in the park.Record: 4-1 Week 6: Sunday, Oct. 16 at New England Patriots, 1 p.m. ET With confidence flowing and energy high, the Bengals go to New England rolling. But Foxboro, Massachusetts, has been anything but kind to them over the years. Cincinnati has lost eight of its past nine games at New England, including the 2014 Sunday night game that came on the heels of a Patriots blowout loss at Kansas City the week before. This will be the third straight reunion game for a Bengal. Recently signed receiver Brandon LaFell spent the past two seasons in New England before being cut last month. Record: 4-2 Week 7: Sunday, Oct. 23 vs. Cleveland Browns, 1 p.m. ET In another reunion game, the Bengals host their AFC North rivals in Hue Jackson's first game against them since he left to become the Browns' head coach. Former Bengals scout Greg Seamon is also on Cleveland's staff as tight ends coach. Given the transition period the Browns are in, it's hard to see this game as anything but a lopsided win in Cincinnati's favor. Record: 5-2 Week 8: Sunday, Oct. 30 vs. Washington Redskins (in London), 9:30 a.m. ET The Bengals go back on the road, albeit for a home game. As part of the London series, the Bengals will serve as the home team at Wembley Stadium for this game against Washington. Like the five games before, this will be a reunion-style game, as the Bengals face their old offensive coordinator, Jay Gruden. Behind quarterback Kirk Cousins, Gruden put together a playoff team last season. Can he do it again this year? Record. 6-2 Week 9: Bye week Week 10: Monday, Nov. 14 at New York Giants, 8:30 p.m. ET Cincinnati gets back in prime time with a Monday night game. It'll be the first time on such a big stage that former LSU stars Jeremy Hill (Bengals running back) and Odell Beckham Jr. (Giants receiver) square off. Both third-year players are regarded among the best at their positions. Bengals fans are hopeful that by this point on the calendar, Hill is picking up the steam he had midway through his 2014 rookie season. Even if he isn't, the Bengals as a team should be.Record: 7-2 Week 11: Sunday, Nov. 20 vs. Buffalo, 1 p.m. ET After a game overseas and a night game, it could take the Bengals a couple games to get used to playing in the customary 1 p.m. ET slot. Then there's Buffalo's commitment to developing the triumvirate of Tyrod Taylor, LeSean McCoy and Sammy Watkins. The combination of McCoy and Watkins really tested the Bengals early in Cincinnati's win last year at Buffalo. Record: 8-2 Week 12: Sunday, Nov. 27 at Baltimore, 1 p.m. ET At long last, the Ravens and Bengals play. This is the deepest in a season that the teams have gone without playing since 2006, when they met Nov. 30. Desperate to shake off last year's 5-11 showing, Baltimore figures to boast an improved team this season. Record: 8-3 Week 13: Sunday, Dec. 4 vs. Philadelphia, 1 p.m. ET This is the fourth team with a new coaching staff that the Bengals will face. Philadelphia's biggest changes are coming on offense too, which doesn't bode well for a matchup against a defense that seemed to get stronger this offseason.Record: 9-3 Week 14: Sunday, Dec. 11 at Cleveland, 1 p.m. ET Jackson & Co. should have a rough go of it in Week 7, and it's not wrong to expect the same in Week 14. Weather could always impact a December Bengals-Browns game in Cleveland, but even that might not be able to save Jackson's team. Record: 10-3 Week 15: Sunday, Dec. 18 vs. Pittsburgh, 8:30 p.m. ET It's really hard to predict the Bengals lose twice to the Stealers, especially if they have Burfict in this game. Cincinnati has to be glad this game is at home and not at Heinz Field, where he would definitely be viewed as Public Enemy No. 1. That said, it's also difficult (though not impossible) to see the Bengals go 12-4 again this year. Expect fireworks. Record: 10-4 Week 16: Sunday, Dec. 24 at Houston, 8:25 p.m. ET The players' families on both sides have to be glad to know they will not be spending Christmas Day in a football stadium. They will, however, be spending the night before in one. This is the second straight year that the Bengals have played the Texans in prime time, and this time, Cincinnati can only hope T.J. Yates isn't brought out of free agency. Record: 10-5 Week 17: Sunday, Jan. 1 vs. Baltimore, 1 p.m. ET For the fifth time in six years, the Bengals end a season with a home game against Baltimore. They've been winning these finales. With the AFC North title and a first-round bye potentially on the line, they have to win one more.Record: 11-5 http://espn.go.com/blog/cincinnati-bengals/post/_/id/22234/cincinnati-bengals-nfl-schedule-2016-game-by-game-predictions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhodeIslandFan Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 No matter what schedule we end up with. You can be sure that in both games against Stealers. We & they will lose personal to the season. It happens every time we meet. Playoff teams around the league love the way we beat the shit out of one another. I wonder who we lose in first meeting? Well at least it won't be Vontaze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|High School Harry| Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 Wait. The OWNER of the Stealers doesn't think that Vontaze's suspension was intentional? What? I'm sure he doesn't think a penalty, fine and suspension were in order for his butt monkey coach, Joie Porter, for his part in the fiasco, either. Pa-freakin'-thetic. Good Ol' Squeeler footbaawwl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooky Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 Rooney doubts Burfict-free game was extra punishment for Bengals Posted by Mike Florio on April 14, 2016, 11:20 PM EDT APBengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict absorbed a three-game suspension for an illegal hit that concussed Stealers receiver Antonio Brown, knocking him out of a divisional round game against the Broncos. As a result of the suspension, Burfict will miss the next chapter in the Bengals-Stealers rivalry. So was the scheduling of a Bengals-Stealers game in Week Two, during Burfict’s absence, intended to reflect extra punishment for the Bengals? “I doubt that,” Stealers owner Art Rooney said in quotes published on the team-owned website. “I’m sure the league wanted a game that would be an interesting game for us to open our season at home, and that certainly fits the bill in terms of renewing the rivalry with the Bengals early in the season.” It would have been much more interesting if it had come two weeks later, in lieu of the Sunday night game the Stealers will be hosting against the Chiefs. With Burfict due to miss three games, why shouldn’t one of those missed games happen against the team that saw its Super Bowl hopes dashed by not having Brown in a playoff game against the Broncos? Given that Denver couldn’t cover Brown when the teams played in Pittsburgh on December 20, it’s not a stretch to say the Stealers would have won with Brown. So if anyone deserves to catch the Bengals when they don’t have Burfict, it’s the Stealers. If anything, both Bengals-Stealers games should have been played in the first three weeks of the season. Nobody seems to mention that the Broncos secondary was decimated in the second half of the first stealers game. That's why they lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschooler Posted April 17, 2016 Report Share Posted April 17, 2016 • For the seventh straight year, the Bengals open on the road. I have never sensed a rage inside the Bengals over this, but the NFL has done a poor job with Cincinnati in this regard. This year it’s the Bengals at the Jets on 9/11 … and then Cincinnati at Pittsburgh in Week 2 as well. Some years you can blame this on the Reds being at home on the week the NFL season opens. But not this year. The Reds are away on Sept. 11—and the NFL still put the Bengals on the road. Prediction: If the Reds are away Week 1 in 2017, the NFL will put the Bengals at Paul Brown Stadium for the opener. http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/04/14/2016-nfl-schedule-release Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Dub Posted April 21, 2016 Report Share Posted April 21, 2016 I have never sensed a rage inside the Bengals over thisThis or anything else, unfortunately. Goodell could shit on Mike Brown's head and Mike would thank him for the new hat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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