Rodgers and Brees said the same thing once.

When we were 3-4 in week 7 and got our butts kicked by the Titans it did not even look like the playoffs were a possibility. If someone had told us that week we were going to lose in the AFC title game in OT I think most of us would have taken that.

To a terrible franchise? I doubt it

So one play-off loss, and we're talking about a decade plus of futility as though that's a certainty?

It's one game.

Overreaction planet.

Let's see how they respond before we throw in the towel on Mahomes' career, okay?

See, people think I'm pessimistic, and when we were in the spot I said we were running out of tarmac to meet our expectations. By that I meant all expectations were still intact, but urgency was on the table.

People derided me for that assessment, then it turns out in the honesty of hindsight, they were more pessimistic than I was.

Four AFC Championship games at Arrowhead. One SB win and three times shitting the bed in four years.

Not good.

I don't do CP beef hit my line

They won both times we played. Scoreboard says their better.

That terrible franchise swept us this year.

Only in the sense that for a pro sports team, any year you don't win the championship is kind of a "failure". Overall, as others have said, it's really hard to make it to one SB, let alone 3 in a row. We got one already and should be in contention for at least the next decade. 5 years ago everyone here would've done weird shit on a room full of construction workers for that to be the case. It's fine.

Yeah, I knew that but Bengals have been a terrible franchise except for the 2 Superbowl runs and this year

All year this was the weirdest team in memory, you never knew which dramatically different version would take the field from week to week. Or, some games like today, from one half to the next.

Personal vent: today pissed me off more than any game in recent memory. Really an absurd choke.

You wonder...if we kick that FG...if we win today.

****.

Wait, so we have to win the SB every year or we suck? WTF is wrong with you people? This is a game that is played by professional athletes. Every AFC team for the last 3 years has been laser focused on beating the best team in he Conference, the Kansas City Chiefs. The Bengals did that. Play this game 3 times, I think the Chiefs win 2 of 3, but we don't get to do that.

Every season that ends in a real chance at the Super Bowl is a successful season. Yes, Patrick says anything less than the SB is a failure...for the players that is correct. But for us fans, we are one of the best teams in the entire league and will be for many years to come.

Settle the **** down.

Don't worry, in a couple years Mahomes will take up 15-20% of the salary cap and our expectations will lower to a few Russell Wilson-style highlights a year and scouting young scrubs for diamonds in the rough.

Or you could get lucky and Mahomes has a decent-sized injury and we can spend a season just having a laugh.