RyanC883

all our weaknesses coming out we are the marvin lewis bengals. Beans draft misses on full display here. No run D, top picks non factors.

glad we took non-factor Basham over OL or impactful Lb

Edmunds is so bad.

what idiot last week told me Ingram was a non factor? we should have picked him up

bills have never won a road playoff game with McD or Allen. I don’t think it adds pressure in a bad way.

interesting point about Rams at home.

I hate allowing interviews during the playoffs. I hate allowing interviews during the playoffs. I hate the NFL allowing interviews during the playoffs. I hate the NFL allowing interviews during the playoffs.

I think Tenn is an easier matchup given how Burrow is playing, but I'd like a home game. So conflicted. Screw it, we are the biggest advantage. Changing my vote to Cincy. Also, this is not bad karma or whatever. The fans are not looking past KC. This whole post is premised on beating KC, and the forum has numerous threads on the KC game and the difficulty of beating KC (who, btw, has the #1 scoring D the second half of the season.....the overall D numbers if reset then would have KC with the #1 D).

the goal is to win it every year, period. Our window is open, and really this team should win it this year if they play as they are capable, and win again next year due to a cap increase, good draft (if Bean does not mess up Rd. 1 and 2); and keeping our team largely intact.

so tickets to the game cannot be resold until 2 days prior? how do they police this> you could sell on stubhub, etc?

well, we certainly passed over a BEVY of talented players during the drought years, so it was time for us to benefit from another teams mistake.

if done in a threatening manner during an argument in a domestic setting, breaking objects is clearly threatening. I'd expect the person to get a protection from abuse/restraining order, but I doubt the NFL does anything.

Kc D is number 1 in points against since mid season. They have a D as good as ours.

they need a total rebuild.

winning the SB. It's there for the taking.

Jackson playing like he has likely means Wallace might not be back (too expensive to bring back). And Wallace has had a good year.

OBJ having a game.

that kicking game was odd. I was reading (I think Christie) who said you can't feel your foot and almost guess where the ball is when it's that cold. Sounded odd, but perhaps that's what happened?

well, if Cam Lewis turns his head he stops that TD.

the competence and attitude of the OL the past few weeks. Not sure what happened, but they are blocking correctly and they refuse to lose at the point of attack.

I don't disagree with anything you said, but we have only shown improvement against 1 great team (NE, who itself stumbled into the postseason). Growing internally is great, and Singletary did not so much improve as someone finally told Daboll that running exists outside of QB draws There was no reason not to draft Humphry, IMO, but the line's elevated play as of late has been tremendous. I'm just saying that out of the additions/losses, we are slightly worse off when you consider what KC added (they are the #1 defense since we played them, so they also had internal improvement); and we lost Tre. I still believe we can beat them. They looked slow out of the gate v. PGH. If we come out hot again and make them one dimensional, we should win. I was talking external upgrades, and I agree, no way we blow them out. Both team are better now. well, CEH is likely back for our game. But McKinnon had impactful drive sustaining runs last night. I believe they also have a DL (can't recall name, Jones?) who missed our game who is back, we are down Tre. All things being said, I think both teams got better since we last met. If we come out hot and play like we did against NE, we should win.

the laughable refs union would never allow it. Because, you know, refs need a union. what a joke. This crew should be fined, and barred from doing the playoffs next season also. That was a joke, they had to know the whistle happened and should have redon the play. Look, inadvertent whistles happen, I get that, but the cover-up is terrible here. I disagree on the part-time aspect. This is not rocket-science. A lot of these guys are lawyers, doctors, whatever in their daily jobs. It's one game a week. Because they are so well paid, they should be fined or fired for making such bad calls (outright lie, really) as happened in the Raiders v. Bengals game. Everyone heard the whistle.

KC has made two impactful upgrades: Ingram and at RB. We have done nothing to upgrade and lost Tre. So I'd give KC the advantage here. KC is also the TOP defense in the league since that game, and is running the ball more. That said, we have gotten better at stopping the run once Harry started playing better. The KC OL is great, in large part due to Creed Humphry, who Bean royally whiffed on. KC has improved through some player acquisitions on D and at RB. That said, we have improved in-house through Harry's improvement. But we are missing Tre. Jackson has been a solid replacement. We need someone to cover Kelse. The D will have it's hands full this game, and it won't be as easy for our offense. I think using multiple looks (running, getting mcKenzie more involved, using Knox, basically everything we did to Pats**) will be key. great point. We need our receivers to be ready to deal with that. If they are allowing DB's to mug, they should also allow offensive PI. So we need our guys to push off. add in Ingram for KC also, however. Milano is a huge addition for us. Basically the only dependable "impact" player in the front 7.

I didn't watch this game, will have to read on what happened. Was Dak approving of throwing things at the refs, or at the Dallas players for blowing it. We should help Dallas. Edmunds and a 1st for Parsons.

although some good teams like Indy in AFC out of it. I miss the 2 seed having a bye week