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I wish Josh would learn to take the underneath passes, but it just isn’t in his makeup. He’s got that Brett Favre dog in him. But I do wish that the Bills had a receiver like Jamar Chase that could make contested catches. Watch Burrow tonight. Half of the Bengals playbook are i’ll-advised passes to Chase on the boundary that only work because he makes catches when double covered.

That’s what I meant. If they win they get hats and t-shirts because they win the division.

Actually, because the Ravens lost last night this is a hat and t-shirt game for the Bengals.

Exactly! But if they are indeed the best NFC team then then the AFC champ will have to beat them. If you want to win it all, you gotta beat the best.

The kicking team used to be able to get a running start but now they can’t move until the kick. Makes recovering almost impossible.

Drank enough last night. I did just have a salad with grilled shrimp that was excellent.

No one. You have to beat good teams to win a SB.

That would up the ante for tomorrow nights game for the Bengals.

That Bradley Chubb trade didn't really work out for them, did it?

For the Bengals, the game next week against is much more important than this weeks game.

Exactly. If the Ravens win today over the Steelers like they should, the game in Cincinnati next week will decide the AFC North. In terms of the division, it doesn’t matter if the Bengals beat the Bills. Given the fact that KC is very unlikely to lose again, the Bengals have no real path to the #1. I think the Bengals are trying to motivate themselves to match the Bills intensity because we have a lot more at stake in this game than they do.

I live in Cincinnati. Most people didn’t care about the Bengals until last year. The stadium was half empty until they started winning last year. Now every main street corner has a guy selling knock off Bengals gear. Also, the Reds play in front of an empty stadium. Fair weather fans indeed.

I tried to join the Bengals board to talk about the SB last year and they threw me out when they learned that I am not a Bengals fan. And I live in Cincinnati. Our board has the most open policy of every board in the NFL when it comes to opposing fans and outright trolls. It’s both a strength and a weakness.

When this guy is your team leader, you’re going to say a lot of brash things.

Two things: 1) They are just following the cockiness that Joe Burrow brought that changed the culture of the team. The Bengals were a losing organisation for decades that lost games before they even started. Joe came in and brought that cigar smoking smugness from LSU and turned the whole thing around in just a few years. It may have now gone a bit too far, but it did work. 2) Joe Mixon is a woman-beating idiot.

There was so much luck. Tennessee was driving to kick a game winning FG when Eli Apple of all people tipped a pass straight up into the air right into the arms of Logan Wilson. Of that ball goes left instead of right, the Bengals probably lose that game. All of this is to say that winning close playoff games requires the bounces to go your way. If the Bills had won the coin toss in KC, they probably host the AFC championship game.

People, the starting QB for the Cincinnati Bengals is Burrow, not Burrows. You people sound like people here in Cincinnati who can’t stop putting an “s” on Kroger.

TBD Mods are the most forgiving of all NFL message boards. @FilthyBeastwould have been banned from Jungle Noise or Finheaven a long time ago.

It probably was a message board overstatement, but people like Skip Bayless and Mina Kimes are almost giddy the morning after Josh has a bad game. Bayless was saying that he would take Baker Mayfield over Josh Allen until earlier THIS SEASON. Mike Tannenbaum still says that he would take Justin Herbert over Josh. The reason for all this is because they want to have their draft night takes proven right. I just wanna make Mahomes play a road playoff game for once.

The talking heads LOVE the Bengals because they are loaded with skill position guys that were absolute stars on Saturdays. Burrow and Chase were the key players on the greatest college offense of all time at LSU, Higgins played on that Clemson team that beat Alabama in the NCG and Mixon was a stud at Oklahoma with Baker Mayfield. Outside of James Cook, the Bills skill position guys played at low-profile programs like Wyoming, Maryland, USF and Florida Atlantic. The Bengals confirm conventional wisdom regarding draft projections while the Bills almost to a man defy it. The Bengals prove draftniks correct while Josh Allen himself proves most of them all wrong and that's why they breathlessly wait for him to fail.

As @Boatdrinks mentioned above, Patrick Mahomes hasn’t had a wind game this year. He hasn’t even had to play in light rain. Didn’t even have a heat game. Somehow, he has had nearly perfect conditions for 15 straight games despite playing in an outdoor stadium. It was cold in KC on Sunday, but no wind and no snow. This Sunday in KC? Partly sunny and 51 with no wind. Monday night in Cincinnati? Rain with the chance for thunderstorms. Sometimes you just gotta laugh.

Russ is absolutely fixable, but you have to get it through to him that his strengths are not as a pocket passer. Then a coach has to bring in an OC that will run the only offense that he was successful in that has very simple reads and allows for a lot of off-schedule plays (letting Russ cook). Darrell Bevell, the coach who scouted and drafted Wilson and developed the offense that led Russ to the SB, is currently QB coach in Miami and would probably take that OC job in Denver.

Chargers above the Bengals? The same Chargers who lost to the Raiders and only beat the Cardinals by one point within the last month?

This is not as crazy as you all are making it sound. Josh Norman actually started 14 games for the 49ers last year.

Steven Ross wants to win a SB so bad just to stick it to Goddell for punishing him for the penalties for tampering.