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Ruminations on the pre-Super Bowl Bengals

 

- It is hard to overstate how amazing this Bengals turn around has been. The 5 teams with the worst odds to reach the Super Bowl heading into the season are the teams picking 1-4 in the upcoming draft, and the Bengals. The fact that Zac Taylor isn’t the coach of the year shows the award is meaningless. This season qualifies as the greatest 1-year transformation ever in the NFL, but also in the history of sports.

 

- There are no superlatives that can fully capture the magic that is Joe Burrow. He is every human attribute that any coach would ever want all molded into 1 person. Natural leader, the appropriate degree of swagger, selfless, charismatic, confident, diligent, obsessive when it comes to winning, cool under pressure, doesn’t take himself too seriously, tough, fearless, and has an indomitable will to always believe he’s in the game when down. No lead is safe with him on the opposing sideline. He also has a magnetism that draws other players to want to succeed beside him and believe they can be better through their proximity to him. If the Chiefs offered Mahomes plus five 1st round picks in a trade, Zac still rightfully wouldn’t even answer the call.

 

- Everything Joey Jackpot touches turns to gold and he can make any cynic believe in destiny. You don’t win your first 7 win-or-go home postseason games in college and the NFL (including a national championship), win the Heisman, be the #1 pick of your home state team, shred your knee in your rookie year, and then come back to win comeback player of the year and star in the Super Bowl. Those things just do not happen. If you presented this script to Disney, they would scoff that it was too unrealistic and that audiences would never buy it. He has the chance to carry Cincinnati out of 33 years of darkness in his first real season and etch his name into immortality – and he’s ONLY 25 years old! Just imagine what the next 12 years has in store. He has the ability to remake everything that anyone thinks of the Cincinnati Bengals for the next 40 years and in 2050 there is going to be some middle-aged man sitting at a bar saying he “first became a Bengals fan as a kid watching Burrow win the Super Bowl”. An entire generation of Bengal fans is being created right now with every post season win and icy fur coat interview that Joe Brrrrr gives to the national media.

 

- Everything the Bengals organization has done over the last 2 years has led to this moment. You can go back and dissect brick by brick how the foundation was laid for to create this Super Bowl roster. From draft picks, to free agency, to trades, to coaching hires, to who was released and retained. It is nearly impossible for a team to bat 1.000 in the way the Bengals did in free agency. Mike Hilton is worth every dollar and the best nickel in the NFL. Hendrickson is the most underrated DE in the NFL and makes the least $ per sack of all the top DEs. Bates and Bell are the perfect backfield duo, which led to the OT Int to beat the Chiefs. The BJ Hill trade might be the best value in Bengals history as he has made key plays throughout the post season to get this team to the Super Bowl. Reader clogging the middle, Spain plowing run holes. They hit on everything. If this was a casino they would be getting knee capped for cheating. 

 

- Lou Anarumo deserves credit as being one of the best coordinators in the NFL and perhaps the BEST halftime adjustment coordinator in all of football. The way he shutdown Mahomes was legendary. When you consider that the Bengals often play with 5 DBs and that their 2 LBs Wilson and Pratt were college safeties, then you realize that the Bengals essentially play a base 4-7 defense (4 DL, 7 DB, with no LBs), something that has never been done before in the NFL. This defense is very formidable to game plan against because it essentially is a bend but don’t break until we get a Int or force an FG defense, that can also drop 7 into coverage, use a DE as a QB spy, and only rush 3 DE and leave the opposing QB running around in panic as I am sure it looks like they are throwing against 12 defenders back there.

 

- Ja’Marr Chase is the most dangerous WR in the NFL and its not even close. He has the speed of a punt returner, the strength of an RB, the jukes of a 3rd down back, the fade route of Randy Moss, the slant ability of Jerry Rice, and the toughness of Steve Smith. He is a threat to take it all the way every time he touches the ball and uncoverable 1 on 1 on the outside. Him and Burrow will win multiple Super Bowls over the next decade and be the face of the NFL, a match made in heaven. Really the Bengals should not even have both players, but it is only because of Burrow’s injury that the team was even picking #5. But really if that draft was redone, Chase would go #1.  For the Bengals it meant the team got to draft Tim Duncan and Shaq O’neal in back-to-back lottery drafts.

 

- For as devastating as the Burrow injury was (I still have PTSD from it), it was a net positive on Burrow’s development and likely the reason the team is in the Super Bowl. Not only does the team not get Chase without it, but I think it caused Burrow to reshape his throwing motion, build his lower body strength, and rebuild himself from the ground up. The way he throws the ball post injury is much better, as he’s like a blind man who had to learn to play the piano without eyesight and then was given his vision back, making him a virtuoso as the rebuilt lower him, blends with the amazing football mind and moxie he already had. This is Picasso with a paint brush and Jimi Hendrix with a guitar type of generational talent, he’s not just your average good QB in the clutch. That special “it” players and coaches feel around him, is the special sauce that only gold-jacket QBs have.

 

- Regardless of what happens in the Big Game, this team is here to stay and will only get better as crazy as that is to believe. They have such an amazing foundation to build on, combined with rookie contracts, lots of cap space, and all their coaches returning. There is no reason this can’t be the start of a Bengals DYNASTY. Burrow will be making 9 a year while Mahomes makes 45 for the next 2 seasons. Chase will be making 8 a year for the next 3 years, while other WRs of his caliber all make 25. The way the Bengals roster is set up salary wise, I think that if the majority of GMs and owners in the league were given the right to pick any one roster in an expansion draft to have on their team, the majority would choose the Bengals to mold over the next 5 years. I foresee Gronk wanting to come play with Burrow magic and a host of other big name free agents taking less money to play in Cincinnati this offseason. The Nati will now be the place that aging players seek out to get a ring on a discounted rate before they retire. In the same way that players flocked to New England to be beside Brady, now guys will crave the sizzle of Joe Shiesty.

 

- No fans deserve all this more than Bengal fans, and I say this as someone who has photos of myself in a Bengals onesie back before they had stripes on the helmets. For as bitter as the dark decade was, the 2020s will now be that much sweeter.

 

WHO FUCKING DEY as this team is only 60 minutes from never being forgotten by an entire nation!

 

A win on Sunday will echo in the collective football mind of NFL fans forever.

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I’m curious what the original title was.  😎

 

 

I’m also glad to see you give Lou and the defense some love.  Kerr’s FEA (Fuck ‘Em All) shirt gives me some concern, as the defense obviously feels under appreciated…by the media.  


Hopefully, they are able to come through once again tomorrow.

 

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4 hours ago, Cricket said:

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I’m curious what the original title was.  😎

 

 

I’m also glad to see you give Lou and the defense some love.  Kerr’s FEA (Fuck ‘Em All) shirt gives me some concern, as the defense obviously feels under appreciated…by the media.  


Hopefully, they are able to come through once again tomorrow.

 

🦗
 

 

Kerr's FEA was tasteless on this team.

And BTW..who the fuck is Kerr?

Just tryin to be noticed as he contributed nothing....

 

 

 

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10 hours ago, BlackJesus said:

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Ruminations on the pre-Super Bowl Bengals

 

- It is hard to overstate how amazing this Bengals turn around has been. The 5 teams with the worst odds to reach the Super Bowl heading into the season are the teams picking 1-4 in the upcoming draft, and the Bengals. The fact that Zac Taylor isn’t the coach of the year shows the award is meaningless. This season qualifies as the greatest 1-year transformation ever in the NFL, but also in the history of sports.

 

- There are no superlatives that can fully capture the magic that is Joe Burrow. He is every human attribute that any coach would ever want all molded into 1 person. Natural leader, the appropriate degree of swagger, selfless, charismatic, confident, diligent, obsessive when it comes to winning, cool under pressure, doesn’t take himself too seriously, tough, fearless, and has an indomitable will to always believe he’s in the game when down. No lead is safe with him on the opposing sideline. He also has a magnetism that draws other players to want to succeed beside him and believe they can be better through their proximity to him. If the Chiefs offered Mahomes plus five 1st round picks in a trade, Zac still rightfully wouldn’t even answer the call.

 

- Everything Joey Jackpot touches turns to gold and he can make any cynic believe in destiny. You don’t win your first 7 win-or-go home postseason games in college and the NFL (including a national championship), win the Heisman, be the #1 pick of your home state team, shred your knee in your rookie year, and then come back to win comeback player of the year and star in the Super Bowl. Those things just do not happen. If you presented this script to Disney, they would scoff that it was too unrealistic and that audiences would never buy it. He has the chance to carry Cincinnati out of 33 years of darkness in his first real season and etch his name into immortality – and he’s ONLY 25 years old! Just imagine what the next 12 years has in store. He has the ability to remake everything that anyone thinks of the Cincinnati Bengals for the next 40 years and in 2050 there is going to be some middle-aged man sitting at a bar saying he “first became a Bengals fan as a kid watching Burrow win the Super Bowl”. An entire generation of Bengal fans is being created right now with every post season win and icy fur coat interview that Joe Brrrrr gives to the national media.

 

- Everything the Bengals organization has done over the last 2 years has led to this moment. You can go back and dissect brick by brick how the foundation was laid for to create this Super Bowl roster. From draft picks, to free agency, to trades, to coaching hires, to who was released and retained. It is nearly impossible for a team to bat 1.000 in the way the Bengals did in free agency. Mike Hilton is worth every dollar and the best nickel in the NFL. Hendrickson is the most underrated DE in the NFL and makes the least $ per sack of all the top DEs. Bates and Bell are the perfect backfield duo, which led to the OT Int to beat the Chiefs. The BJ Hill trade might be the best value in Bengals history as he has made key plays throughout the post season to get this team to the Super Bowl. Reader clogging the middle, Spain plowing run holes. They hit on everything. If this was a casino they would be getting knee capped for cheating. 

 

- Lou Anarumo deserves credit as being one of the best coordinators in the NFL and perhaps the BEST halftime adjustment coordinator in all of football. The way he shutdown Mahomes was legendary. When you consider that the Bengals often play with 5 DBs and that their 2 LBs Wilson and Pratt were college safeties, then you realize that the Bengals essentially play a base 4-7 defense (4 DL, 7 DB, with no LBs), something that has never been done before in the NFL. This defense is very formidable to game plan against because it essentially is a bend but don’t break until we get a Int or force an FG defense, that can also drop 7 into coverage, use a DE as a QB spy, and only rush 3 DE and leave the opposing QB running around in panic as I am sure it looks like they are throwing against 12 defenders back there.

 

- Ja’Marr Chase is the most dangerous WR in the NFL and its not even close. He has the speed of a punt returner, the strength of an RB, the jukes of a 3rd down back, the fade route of Randy Moss, the slant ability of Jerry Rice, and the toughness of Steve Smith. He is a threat to take it all the way every time he touches the ball and uncoverable 1 on 1 on the outside. Him and Burrow will win multiple Super Bowls over the next decade and be the face of the NFL, a match made in heaven. Really the Bengals should not even have both players, but it is only because of Burrow’s injury that the team was even picking #5. But really if that draft was redone, Chase would go #1.  For the Bengals it meant the team got to draft Tim Duncan and Shaq O’neal in back-to-back lottery drafts.

 

- For as devastating as the Burrow injury was (I still have PTSD from it), it was a net positive on Burrow’s development and likely the reason the team is in the Super Bowl. Not only does the team not get Chase without it, but I think it caused Burrow to reshape his throwing motion, build his lower body strength, and rebuild himself from the ground up. The way he throws the ball post injury is much better, as he’s like a blind man who had to learn to play the piano without eyesight and then was given his vision back, making him a virtuoso as the rebuilt lower him, blends with the amazing football mind and moxie he already had. This is Picasso with a paint brush and Jimi Hendrix with a guitar type of generational talent, he’s not just your average good QB in the clutch. That special “it” players and coaches feel around him, is the special sauce that only gold-jacket QBs have.

 

- Regardless of what happens in the Big Game, this team is here to stay and will only get better as crazy as that is to believe. They have such an amazing foundation to build on, combined with rookie contracts, lots of cap space, and all their coaches returning. There is no reason this can’t be the start of a Bengals DYNASTY. Burrow will be making 9 a year while Mahomes makes 45 for the next 2 seasons. Chase will be making 8 a year for the next 3 years, while other WRs of his caliber all make 25. The way the Bengals roster is set up salary wise, I think that if the majority of GMs and owners in the league were given the right to pick any one roster in an expansion draft to have on their team, the majority would choose the Bengals to mold over the next 5 years. I foresee Gronk wanting to come play with Burrow magic and a host of other big name free agents taking less money to play in Cincinnati this offseason. The Nati will now be the place that aging players seek out to get a ring on a discounted rate before they retire. In the same way that players flocked to New England to be beside Brady, now guys will crave the sizzle of Joe Shiesty.

 

- No fans deserve all this more than Bengal fans, and I say this as someone who has photos of myself in a Bengals onesie back before they had stripes on the helmets. For as bitter as the dark decade was, the 2020s will now be that much sweeter.

 

WHO FUCKING DEY as this team is only 60 minutes from never being forgotten by an entire nation!

 

A win on Sunday will echo in the collective football mind of NFL fans forever.

BJ your narrative is what makes fans want to actually go on the field and help JB if we could..

Im fuckin pumped now more than ever..

Great post...

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10 hours ago, BlackJesus said:

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Ruminations on the pre-Super Bowl Bengals

 

- It is hard to overstate how amazing this Bengals turn around has been. The 5 teams with the worst odds to reach the Super Bowl heading into the season are the teams picking 1-4 in the upcoming draft, and the Bengals. The fact that Zac Taylor isn’t the coach of the year shows the award is meaningless. This season qualifies as the greatest 1-year transformation ever in the NFL, but also in the history of sports.

 

- There are no superlatives that can fully capture the magic that is Joe Burrow. He is every human attribute that any coach would ever want all molded into 1 person. Natural leader, the appropriate degree of swagger, selfless, charismatic, confident, diligent, obsessive when it comes to winning, cool under pressure, doesn’t take himself too seriously, tough, fearless, and has an indomitable will to always believe he’s in the game when down. No lead is safe with him on the opposing sideline. He also has a magnetism that draws other players to want to succeed beside him and believe they can be better through their proximity to him. If the Chiefs offered Mahomes plus five 1st round picks in a trade, Zac still rightfully wouldn’t even answer the call.

 

- Everything Joey Jackpot touches turns to gold and he can make any cynic believe in destiny. You don’t win your first 7 win-or-go home postseason games in college and the NFL (including a national championship), win the Heisman, be the #1 pick of your home state team, shred your knee in your rookie year, and then come back to win comeback player of the year and star in the Super Bowl. Those things just do not happen. If you presented this script to Disney, they would scoff that it was too unrealistic and that audiences would never buy it. He has the chance to carry Cincinnati out of 33 years of darkness in his first real season and etch his name into immortality – and he’s ONLY 25 years old! Just imagine what the next 12 years has in store. He has the ability to remake everything that anyone thinks of the Cincinnati Bengals for the next 40 years and in 2050 there is going to be some middle-aged man sitting at a bar saying he “first became a Bengals fan as a kid watching Burrow win the Super Bowl”. An entire generation of Bengal fans is being created right now with every post season win and icy fur coat interview that Joe Brrrrr gives to the national media.

 

- Everything the Bengals organization has done over the last 2 years has led to this moment. You can go back and dissect brick by brick how the foundation was laid for to create this Super Bowl roster. From draft picks, to free agency, to trades, to coaching hires, to who was released and retained. It is nearly impossible for a team to bat 1.000 in the way the Bengals did in free agency. Mike Hilton is worth every dollar and the best nickel in the NFL. Hendrickson is the most underrated DE in the NFL and makes the least $ per sack of all the top DEs. Bates and Bell are the perfect backfield duo, which led to the OT Int to beat the Chiefs. The BJ Hill trade might be the best value in Bengals history as he has made key plays throughout the post season to get this team to the Super Bowl. Reader clogging the middle, Spain plowing run holes. They hit on everything. If this was a casino they would be getting knee capped for cheating. 

 

- Lou Anarumo deserves credit as being one of the best coordinators in the NFL and perhaps the BEST halftime adjustment coordinator in all of football. The way he shutdown Mahomes was legendary. When you consider that the Bengals often play with 5 DBs and that their 2 LBs Wilson and Pratt were college safeties, then you realize that the Bengals essentially play a base 4-7 defense (4 DL, 7 DB, with no LBs), something that has never been done before in the NFL. This defense is very formidable to game plan against because it essentially is a bend but don’t break until we get a Int or force an FG defense, that can also drop 7 into coverage, use a DE as a QB spy, and only rush 3 DE and leave the opposing QB running around in panic as I am sure it looks like they are throwing against 12 defenders back there.

 

- Ja’Marr Chase is the most dangerous WR in the NFL and its not even close. He has the speed of a punt returner, the strength of an RB, the jukes of a 3rd down back, the fade route of Randy Moss, the slant ability of Jerry Rice, and the toughness of Steve Smith. He is a threat to take it all the way every time he touches the ball and uncoverable 1 on 1 on the outside. Him and Burrow will win multiple Super Bowls over the next decade and be the face of the NFL, a match made in heaven. Really the Bengals should not even have both players, but it is only because of Burrow’s injury that the team was even picking #5. But really if that draft was redone, Chase would go #1.  For the Bengals it meant the team got to draft Tim Duncan and Shaq O’neal in back-to-back lottery drafts.

 

- For as devastating as the Burrow injury was (I still have PTSD from it), it was a net positive on Burrow’s development and likely the reason the team is in the Super Bowl. Not only does the team not get Chase without it, but I think it caused Burrow to reshape his throwing motion, build his lower body strength, and rebuild himself from the ground up. The way he throws the ball post injury is much better, as he’s like a blind man who had to learn to play the piano without eyesight and then was given his vision back, making him a virtuoso as the rebuilt lower him, blends with the amazing football mind and moxie he already had. This is Picasso with a paint brush and Jimi Hendrix with a guitar type of generational talent, he’s not just your average good QB in the clutch. That special “it” players and coaches feel around him, is the special sauce that only gold-jacket QBs have.

 

- Regardless of what happens in the Big Game, this team is here to stay and will only get better as crazy as that is to believe. They have such an amazing foundation to build on, combined with rookie contracts, lots of cap space, and all their coaches returning. There is no reason this can’t be the start of a Bengals DYNASTY. Burrow will be making 9 a year while Mahomes makes 45 for the next 2 seasons. Chase will be making 8 a year for the next 3 years, while other WRs of his caliber all make 25. The way the Bengals roster is set up salary wise, I think that if the majority of GMs and owners in the league were given the right to pick any one roster in an expansion draft to have on their team, the majority would choose the Bengals to mold over the next 5 years. I foresee Gronk wanting to come play with Burrow magic and a host of other big name free agents taking less money to play in Cincinnati this offseason. The Nati will now be the place that aging players seek out to get a ring on a discounted rate before they retire. In the same way that players flocked to New England to be beside Brady, now guys will crave the sizzle of Joe Shiesty.

 

- No fans deserve all this more than Bengal fans, and I say this as someone who has photos of myself in a Bengals onesie back before they had stripes on the helmets. For as bitter as the dark decade was, the 2020s will now be that much sweeter.

 

WHO FUCKING DEY as this team is only 60 minutes from never being forgotten by an entire nation!

 

A win on Sunday will echo in the collective football mind of NFL fans forever.

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52 minutes ago, claptonrocks said:

Kerr's FEA was tasteless on this team.

And BTW..who the fuck is Kerr?

Just tryin to be noticed as he contributed nothing....

 

 

 

Loved the shirt. He got here three weeks ago from the cardinals on short notice and played a big part in helping to stop Derrick Henry. He’s got an awesome story and maybe you should listen to his interview with Dan hoard on the bengals booth podcast.  He helped save our season when Ogunjobi got hurt.

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12 minutes ago, membengal said:

Loved the shirt. He got here three weeks ago from the cardinals on short notice and played a big part in helping to stop Derrick Henry. He’s got an awesome story and maybe you should listen to his interview with Dan hoard on the bengals booth podcast.  He helped save our season when Ogunjobi got hurt.

Allright then..

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1 minute ago, claptonrocks said:

Allright then..


Yeah, I think it wasn’t just Kerr, but many  from the defensive line…and it DID seem a bit out of place.

 

I know that after the AFC Championship game, Joey B’s first words were praising the efforts of the defense.  Hopefully, the FEA comment is directed at the media and is not a sign of a crack in the locker room.

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5 hours ago, Cricket said:

I’m curious what the original title was.  😎

 

Wish I had a creative answer, but really just shortened it. 

 

 

 

6 hours ago, Griever said:

Reading this post made me a little emotional, not gonna lie. Awesome stuff

 

59 minutes ago, claptonrocks said:

Im fuckin pumped now more than ever..

Great post...

 

I'm glad you guys were inspired. 

 

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