Greetings From Cincy Jungle - Ask A Bengals Fan (Again)

the Titans.

I wasn’t a fan, and am the exact opposite of that franchise right now.

happens that i have a ritual i do every year starting around christmas. i allow myself to watch my firefly dvds anytime i want until i make it through the whole series. which usually lasts until around the 2nd of January. which means the cancellation wound for me flares up just around this week every year.

and damn if josh didn’t bring it up and now you too. yeah, i’m actually really annoyed this week about the cancellation. come next week i’ll have it back in its place. for now though, got the brown coat blues going. damn j00 fox.

As for the defenders answers question the outside is held down by Andrew Whitworth, who is a top 5 LT atleast, and Andre Smith, who’s finally playing like a top pick. The interior has one mediocre guard, pretty good center, and one bad guard. Don’t know if that really answers the question.

Pretty good on the road, won in a hostile Seattle stadium, and played well in Baltimore. Not sure the road or crowd phases this team much.p

I would rather play in the rain or snow because being a team from Ohio and Texas, that would seem to favor Ohio. Not a big deal either way imo.

This is a young team, but they play like vets, and carry themselves like vets. I think that alone is holding the team together tightly, but not sure if they have the playoff experience. A lot of the oline has been there, same as dline, so I think they’re experience will help the young guys.

And finally nobody can ever take Shipley! Fan favorite around cincyjungle, great guy, great reciever, been injured most the year and was badly missed.

And had a few good games too.

Being from the Houston area. He was a god at Katy high school and then had major success at TCU. I wish the Texans could have drafted him to groom behind teh Schaub!

Had we won vs Houston we wouldn’t have had to win vs Baltimore, or hope people lost for us to be in. That’s my take atleast.

but, your slight hint of it, is, making, me, wanna….

how does Firefly have anything to do with the Bengals?
the only Firefly show I can think of was a sci-fi channel show back when the channel went by a name that remotely resembled the abbreviation of SCIence FIction not this bastardized SyFy that they pretend is the same thing.

A good qb, with the chance to be elite. He has good accuracy, decent mobility, good enough ARM strength, and makes good decisions for the most part. But him playing in a west coast offense, and having the Aj Green helping cover up some bad throws help mask his weaknesses.

@ Romo.

coaches will put dalton in a system that improves his completion percentage the longer he plays in the nfl. won’t bomb you much, enough to keep you honest. will become more of a dink and dunk field awareness qb.

I think he’ll find his way between Average and Good. He falls in the average category this year and one of the biggest draft question was — How high is Dalton’s ceiling? — So if he gets weapons around him, he’ll enjoy “Good” for most of his career with a few “Elite” stretches and some “Average” stretches of games.

You called Sanchez average – you see him in a lot better light than I do

There’s something that’s wrong about that

hilarious

welcome to the board

have more points when the last second ticks off the game clock. yeah, sounds like a better game plan to me.

kidding aside, bengals need to avoid falling into their 2nd quarter twilight zone and being tired in the 4th quarter. for whatever reason the 2nd quarter has hurt the bengals more than any other quarter this season. as injuries have piled up on the defense, the bengals have also started to wear down more in the 4th quarter.

I have complete faith in our defense and our god-like DC Wade Phillips to be able to contain Dalton on Saturday. Not stop completely, but contain. Add onto that the crowd noise (it is going to be insane inside Reliant) and I think Dalton could have a pretty rough day this weekend. You can try to find some video of the Falcon game earlier this year to see what I am talking about with the crowd noise. It gave Ryan trouble all game long.

and, like you said, our teams have been through similar experiences to get to this point.

I don’t think ‘Dre has been 100% this whole season after that first hammy as it may take the full off-season to get back into the shape he is accustom to playing. I think a study and thread focused on injuries that “may” have resulted from the lockout is long overdue, but will make good off-season material. Across the league we have seen many injuries that “could” be related to flexibility conditioning. On the Texans roster alone we had roughly a dozen hamstrings (starting back in pre-season) and two torn pectoral muscles (one that IR’d Mario Williams, and sidelined James Casey a few games).

MVPs? I’m guessing for Bengals it will be a battle between Dalton and AJ. On Texans I’m HOPING it’s a battle between Foster, Andre Johnson, and Cushing.

He’s never faced adversity from the crowd there, and his High School team is one of the bigger state powerhouses.

I don’t think Luck lives up to the hype when he forced to play on a shitty Indy team and not get to throw behind 8-man lines.

Hey, first things, first — we lost to Orton, not Tebow. Actually does that even sound that much better? I don’t know.

Anyway if you look at the team’s losses this year, only once did the Bengals lose by more than one score. I know its one of those trivial make-you-feel better points, but the Bengals aren’t being crushed by any means.

So I’m not so much concerned, but they have to prove they can beat those teams now.

like saying the bengals havent beat a winning team all year. when in fact, the bengals have beat teams with winning records at the time they played. like buffalo was 4-0 and coming off their upset of the pats when we played the bills.

media loves to spin those stories.

If so, he’s been replaced by Mike McGlynn. He started off horribly, but he was decent last week.

Cedric Peerman, a 4th string RB with 3 carries, was named as the AFC Special Teams all pro guy by ProFootballFocus. Taylor Mays and Dan Skuta also are good at kickoff coverage, though Mays pretty much needs the guy to not move out of his way.

Our return guy is Brandon Tate, who was cut by the Patriots. The Bengals fans seem to be about 80/20 hate him/love him. He started off the season continually making really stupid decisions and being risky with the ball, but he’s calmed down and played smarter the last 6 weeks or so. He still scares us every time he gets the ball, but he’s been pretty reliable lately.

We have Brandon Tate returning for us and he’s been pretty good. Just like any other player he’s made mistakes but for the most part he’s damn good. We have won the starting field position battle in almost all our games. You can’t sleep on Tate cause he can take it to the house. Our coverage team is probably top 10 in the league.

With some bits of goodyears finest rubber ;-)

there is absolutely NO telling.

;- )

flu, it’s going around in SW Ohio, he’ll be fine in a day or two

i can understand your feeling that way towards wyche as a long time houston fan. if i can recall that particular moment in time, didn’t sam run up the score because he thought jerry had run up the score on him in the game before?

what started their feud beyond that, escapes me. i don’t recall a handshake snub or comments in the press at each other before that game. after the 61-7 game, they never got along in public. one would always have a biting comment towards the other in the press. etc.