There's a fair argument to be made that his 2 games in '21 pretty significantly skewer his overall playoff numbers.

Aside from that year, 6 of 8 games <100 passer rating. 5 of them <90 rating and a TD/INT ratio of 12/4. I'd have to update from a previous post detailing those 2 and all the others but i can't do it from work right now.

Someone here postulated he took a knee to the dome and had a concussion. It makes as much sense as anything.

**** it. I have time.

'21 playoffs for Josh Allen (2 games)
48/62 77.4% 637yds 10.3ypa 9/0 148.9 rating
all other playoff games for Josh Allen (8 games)
196/316 62% 2,086yds 6.6ypa 12/4 88.7 rating

Normally I'd dismiss something like this as just "sour grapes," but Mahomes has plenty of history in the playoffs where he just makes it happen. That makes me think the concussion theory is a pretty fair take.

Do people still blame the defense for that loss? The offense and especially Mahomes lost that game.

As bad as that 2nd half was (I credit Lou as much as docking Pat, it was brilliant defensive coaching), Mahomes led the team down to get points to send it to OT.

In OT he hit Tyreek in the hands down the sideline. If Tyreek catches that instead of pops it up for the INT we are likely going to the SB after Mahomes wins that game in OT.

That didn't happen.

That drive in OT started at their 45 after the pick. He believe he completed 2 passes of about 8 yards, and Mixon had a big run to get them in FG range. Still counts, but wasn't overly impressive.

Bengals sukk

They ain't won shit and ain't never gonna win shit lmao

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Keep saying it, but KC broke them. It’s been all downhill since “Burrowhead”.

Bengals defense sukk

Offense is elite elite

They are finally cooked. They needed to win the 3 against Balt, LAC and Pitt to stay in it and lost them all. It's done. 9-8 best they can do but they lose every tie breaker. Season is washed. Chase contract gonna ruin the defense even more. Joe climbing up hill battle to get a ring.

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It's pretty incredible he's only made one AFCCG in his career (and was outscored 31-9 outside of a 3 yard TD drive and garbage time).

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rip bengals. theyll never sniff a SB again w this core

Rest of the NFL when scoring at least 33 points: 51-1

Bengals are 2-4

Shit, even in the year the Chiefs scored 50 and lost, they still went 6-2 by that metric.

It's just so wonderful that this arrogant jerkwad of a team crapped their season away and will be at home watching.

Back to Back seasons without playoffs. Ouch.

Put the Bengals and Justin Tucker in the list that PM2 have broken.

This thread couldn’t even make it two full years before the Bengals faded back into irrelevance. What a shame.

That was a fun couple of years, though! Back to eating dog food chili and hanging out in the basement for Bengals fans. Burrow probably demands a trade in another 1-2 years or just retires like Carson Palmer. So it was written, and so it shall come to pass.

Yep. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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I just ran to this thread to post this. LMAO

The team to beat!!!!11!1!1!1!

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Might need to add the Niners to that list.

They've been cooked for 8 weeks. For the same reasons that were obvious by the end of September.


They're just not a good football team.

Orlando's fat ass sucks LMAO

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Lol, he’s probably their LT next year too.

Don’t see cheap ass Mike Brown taking a $15M cap hit.

OBJ can't handle speed. He sucks against it. Man, this play he was absolutely dreadful. Looked like Wanya Morris out there!

Bengals defense (especially the back end) is the worst defense I can remember the Bengals ever fielding. I can't even think of a worse one even in the '90s. They are terrible.

Yeah the offense is really good, but still has O-line problems.
With the defense as bad as they are, their offense has to be perfect in scoring every drive. One or two mistakes by the offense in a game (INT, fumble, fail to convert, etc.), and it is basically ball game over. Can't expect any side of the ball to be nearly perfect all game to have chances of winning.

Lou Anarumo is basically Bob Sutton it seems.

Yeah, but we didn’t give Wanya the biggest signing bonus ever for an o-lineman to suck ass all day. ;)

True. At least the Chiefs can bench/dump their Oklahoma LT product. Don't be trying to offload that crap on Cincy again !!

We know, we tried to tell bungles fan when they signed him, but all we heard was "WE STOLE HIM FROM YOU" ROFL

Making fun of another teams LT is rich. Both of ours a total trash. I would take theirs all day.

Brown was even false starting all day and he still got destroyed

Lesson learned.

Oklahoma tackles,,,,, ughh

Yeah, as bad as OBJ can be against speed,, he's still not on a complete trash level as Morris at this point. OBJ would be an upgrade for sure. Man, can't believe I typed that :shake:

First, we need to try him at Guard, where some draft pundits thought he was better suited to play in the NFL.

OBJ is a RT. Period.

Nah, Morris doesn't even move... like, at all. He might still be standing at the 5 yard line after giving up that red zone sack.

psssst....

We know. First hand.

Maybe we should take it easy on Jamar Chase Every Other Team in The Standings? When he said the Bungles were the team to beat in the AFC this year he might have meant the team that other teams would be able to beat ? On second thought, screw that guy .

WHY AREN'T WE DOING THAT WITH UCHE?!?!?!?

That's exactly what we need to be using him for and when we do that with regularity, the QBs will stop setting so deep and those pressures that Jones creates can become sacks.

Dammit we need that speed rusher so badly. I don't know how we can continue to get a first hand look at how it wrecks protections week in, week out, and seemingly have no interest in even attempting it.

Chiefs gotta be holding stuff back surely

There is no bigger embarrassment in all of sports than the Cincinnati Bengals.

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No bigger fraud than Joe Burrow either.

Called it before the season:

Joe Burrow is just upscale Trent Green with a defense.

He's not even in the best QB in his own team's history.

Win an MVP, then he can be compared with Boomer.

Fraud. Footnote on a dynasty. Just like Boomer and Ken.

Even I won't act like Joe isn't good. He's better than good he's just not as clutch as the media brags.

Average Joe.

I had said that we would see if Joe Burrow was as good as everyone thought this year after losing Boyd and all of the defensive talent due to his contract. Higgins missing games hurt too. And I guess that I got my answer. He was propped up by a strong supporting cast. Having 3 wide receivers with the talent of Chase, Higgins and Boyd would make anyone look good. Just like throwing to Tim Brown and Jerry Rice made everyone think that Gannon was special. Same thing happens over and over. Michael Irvin, and Emmitt Smith put a mediocre Troy Aikman in the hall of fame. Burrow had his chance and blew it. Mostly because he couldn't stay healthy during his window. He may get another opportunity to shine. But it likely won't be in Cincinnati. At some point me may get the opportunity to move to another loaded team that just needs a quarterback, like the 2020 Buccaneers did with Brady. But his chances are pretty slim now.

I don't want to say Spags doesn't know how to use him, because he clearly does, and has used similar guys before....but man, I do not get his reluctance. A LOT of us have cried out for speed. Karlaftis, Danna, FAU, none of them win fast and the lack of that threat is such an obvious, infuriating need.

Also I loved Herbig as a draft pick, he's looked unreal

If they fire Zac Taylor how heavy of a favorite is Joe Brady to replace him?

Taylor will be back. They're too cheap to buy him out. They will fire Lou first.

After how long they retained Marvin Lewis I can’t envision them letting Taylor go, especially considering he has accomplished more.

He really isn’t. He has more fourth quarter INTs in the playoffs than TD passes. That’s striking to me.

3 years and counting since he and the Bengals beat the Chiefs in the AFCCG. Burrow gets more tread on that game moreso than Allen & Lamar Jackson's entire career.

It's hard to tell. I've read Browns daughter is making the calls these days. I'll defer to faulk or Billy, but it might be a different person making the call.

Plus it's not made in a vacuum. I'd all but guarantee there is someone in the room beating the table saying we're not doing this Marvin Lewis shit again.

You ain't lying. It gets brought up every time they talk Bengals. The only active QB to best Mahomes in a playoff game. Brady retired so it's just him. It was years ago and we have two more rings and Joe has nothing. Not even a division title.

There's not even the slightest possibility that Zac is gone. I doubt that Lou is either. They'll point to all the one score losses and look to sign some more cheap free agents and miss on some more draft picks while trying to blow more smoke up fan's asses that they're...

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For all the supposed talent they’ve been trash this season. And their defense sucks (27th in yards and 31st in points allowed). Door will close this season when they start shedding players — this was this last swing and they whiffed.

Lou Anarumo who has the "secret recipe" against the Chiefs offense will be the sacrificial lamb instead of Zac Taylor

Huh? CIN's offense has scored an average of 33pts/gm over their last 3, but lost every one of those games. Their defense is the problem. They're 31st in scoring defense and after next week they'll assuredly be dead last, giving up 37.7pts/gm over their last 3 games.

Nothing "sacrificial lamb" about it. Last I checked, Anarumo is the CIN-DC and he's in charge of putting a competent defense on the field, injuries or whatever be damned, and he flat has failed to do so this entire season.

He’ll have another DC job instantly.

Fine. Doesn't change the fact that he's been worse than incompetent this season.

In all fairness, he doesn't have much to work with. Their defensive personnel is awful. They BIGLY miscalculated when they let D.J. Reader go this off-season and Bates the off-season before that. They haven't been drafting well on defense either lately and that's catching up with them.

Lou will likely be the fall guy, but this is absolutely on the front office.

Look at our defense. With the injuries, we've taken a step back recently. Best coach in the world has to have talent to work with. Before they gutted their defense to resign the offense players, they were a top defense. That defense almost won them a superbowl...he's a good coach and I don't want them to fire him and he ends up on a team that just needs a defensive boost to be contenders.

The amount of talent they've let leave with no return is completely asinine. Operating as a skin flint organization may have already completely slammed their window shut, which is insane to think about.

Ha. Not in his mind.

I get it, the defense lost several key players.

But here's the thing: really good coaches adapt/overcome. And DCs have to find their identity, just like OCs. Stop the run or rush the passer or whatever. Find something your unit can do. Anarumo didn't do that. And in spite of his reputation, his unit is trending down, not up.

Hell, they aren't even treading water. They're sinking like the Titanic. By the end of next week they'll probably be giving up an average of 36+ pts/gm, a TD worse than the former worst defense in the league, CAR at 30pts/gm.

Even Bowles' defense is trending back up. Albeit incrementally, but they're giving up almost a FG less than they were 4 or so weeks ago. And they were so thin at CB that they couldn't even run dime until 3 weeks ago, and they still have a PS LB starting for them, I think.

Anarumo may call a good game and have a nice scheme, but he isn't showing that he can adapt when he doesn't have the best players, which reminds me of Sutton.

Maybe I'm just wrong. Wouldn't be the first time. But that's just how it feels to me. Ymmv.

I read somewhere that Cincy still has a team. Can anyone confirm?

Who can lay the longest turd wins, is team building