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The state of doubt/polarization in the fanbase comes from no official explanation from the front office for 13 seconds, combined with no accountability for the lack of preparation for Cincinnati.

It’s the home town discounts Edmunds doesn’t take away is what makes him so good. 😆 You can’t simultaneously believe Edmunds is a top 10 LB AND not expect him to ask for top 10 money. 4 years at $11 Mil is turning down Coke for Mountain Thunder. Your pie is located in the sky.

Saffold got a Pro Bowl invite after this game

What did he expect?

The drought was not standard. It was a statistical anomaly of mismanagement. You couldn't do that again on purpose. Perspective is good, but ask the Eagles how good it was to win the NFC East six times, visit the NFC championship game five times, and go to Super Bowl with Andy Reid.

I hate that McBeane makes Colin Cowterd look like a genius for ignoring the OL for 5 years.

It would all be worth it if they could make a dent against backup OL. When they can't, it's spending $10 more on the rust protection at the carwash.

He's the slickest used car salesman I've ever seen.

This board loves theoretical value. Edmunds is a TBD hall of famer based on "plays taken away" alone. Not to mention 1st team all pro in "length." I'd love to see if Oliver gets the same treatment. Something tells me he won't get the same benefit of the doubt.

If we were so obviously gassed and mentally exhausted, who is the cheapskate who didn’t pony up the dough for a motivational speaker? Tony Robbins was busy? The real estate twins already booked?

During the press conferences I would have given my left pinky for a Jerry Sullivan to ask if the team felt proud of the effort in front of a home crowd with Damar and his family in attendance. I’d have taken that in lieu of the accountability we’ll never see.

The short answer that everyone has either came to grips with, or is still struggling to work through is: this team just didn't feel like it. They had to fight for it and it was too much to ask. Saffold's brain was too tired. Milano didn't have "the juice" to be down on the scoreboard. McKenzie was in the movie Groundhog's Day watching Diggs fight the same terrible game plan over and over. Frazier was playing prevent defense in the red zone while the DL got no push on their patchwork OL. All while resting Hyde becuase who wants to risk it on an important game? They obviously all didn't give a flying frick that Damar was there. And the worst part is that they all felt secure enough to admit it to their paying fanbase that their energy in the stadium was wasted. The icing on the cake is McDermott and Beane not holding anyone accountable and assuring everyone of their job security. Seems like the main mission was to end the season healthy and they didn't even succeed on that front either.

We all knew after Rachel Bush's Twitter rants last year that he wasn't taking a team friendly deal. Then he went and hired a loan shark agent who isn't known for taking team friendly deals. . Now she's "completely packing" up the house. Which is the exact opposite of what one would expect from someone who doesn't want to move. Also creating a collage of pictures of Buffalo which is what one does when you plan to be there all the time. Needless to say, waive goodbye.

This is just a hurried subpar meme.

That’s Saffold talk

That’s insulting to all 31 other NFL teams. Just because we pissed down our legs in front of our long suffering fans, on our own home dirt, in front of a teammate who was barely 3 weeks stolen from his ride to the pearly gates, doesn’t mean any other NFL team would have actually had the gaul to give themselves permission to have done that. Hell, even Jacksonville gave the Chiefs a scare and they were outclassed from jump street.

Why would the media endorse a team Mixon’s disrespected imaginary friend beat like a drum? A team with “no juice” that’s “mentally exhausted” who can’t come back “with snow on the ground?” 🤢🤮

Not to mention our DL shaking in their boots from those big bad backup OL! 🤠

The fact that McD feels he’s safe shows there’s been no accountability and there won’t be any.

Who would give me warning points? My wife?

Saffold might as well retire because no team is going to sign someone whose tiny widdle brain is too tired to win the Super Bowl, much less a playoff game. His agent dropped the ball on letting him say that verbal dumpster fire.

We’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel for excuses this time. The Bengals made up their own “disrespect” storyline in their heads on Monday, plugged their ears, repeated it to themselves for 6 days, and hammered us with it. We got beat by a pretend scenario. It’s like a child’s imaginary friend ended our season. And the best we can do is “we weren’t in the mood.” This is rich.

Poyer's wife and agent will make sure he isn't resigned. My fear is that Miami will offer him 50 cents more than we can.