WDR Note to Self: Start Gambling More

For those who missed the now prescient article we posted the other day, "There Will Be Blood," we hope the stark image to the left will knock the optimism out of you: it is going to be a LONG, LONG season. In fact, we have been so money in our predictions of how things would go this offseason (see this article on the proposed tinkering with the O-line, a full 5 months before it happened; see this article about how the Henry debacle would unfold before it happened) that we should open up our own sports betting operation. Any of the yahoos out there who still think we're going to be good--who think that bringing back Chris Henry does anything other than confirm our status of as the laughing stock of the NFL--feast your eyes on the crap sandwich that was the Bengals-Saints game.

Seriously, when are you people going to get it? This team is only going one place: backwards. You see, hiring a talented coach (yes, I still think Marvin has some talent) and landing a once-in-a-decade QB like Carson Palmer were enough to garner even Mike Brown a few wins over the past few years. But the fact of the matter is, a leopard can't change its spots, and Mike Brown is a loser, through and through. That's where we (the fans) need to come in. It's no longer acceptable to sit on our hands and let the Brown regime victimize us at every turn. We need to DEMAND change. I would seriously rather see the Bengals leave Cincy than deal with this crap anymore. They are unwatchable.

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Comments

[IgnatiusJReilly]

After watching our seemingly degenerative play last season, I remained optimistic.

Surely, Marvin would right the ship, right?

Surely, some day soon, that ferocious, swarming, Ravens-style defense would appear, snarling in stripes at PBS, right?

Surely, Rudi's pathetic rushing attempts last year were an aberration, an injury that just needed to heal, right?

Surely, Eric Ghiaciuc, with a full year under his belt, would hold his own against the beefed-up defensive interiors in our division, right?

Surely, we'd rid ourselves of the cancerous Chad Johnson to the unwitting Dan Snyder for a king's ransom, right?

Surely, we'd use one of those gets to move up in the draft to snag Sedrick Ellis, right?

Surely, if we got spanked by the Saints on that gambit, we'd use the solid but not spectacular Rivers along with the two big-eaters we drafted up front to augment a competent, with upside, secondary and have a something resembling a competent defense?

Surely, the supremely talented, if troubled, Odell Thurman and Ahmad Brooks would team with Keith Rivers to give us one of the most promising LBing corps in the league, right?

Surely, the signing of Antwan Odom and the return of a healthy pass rushing specialist in Eric Henderson would make opposing QBs quake, right?

Surely, with Carson and Chad and T.J. and a healthy Chris Perry and a franchised Stacy Andrews backed by Willie, supplemented by an actual threat at tight end, Utecht, a promising draftee lineman in Anthony Collins, we'd be nigh on unstoppable on offense, right?

Surely, with Simpson, Caldwell, and Dede Dorsey, we'd have the return game covered, right?

Call it Kool-Aid drinking. Call it the supreme denial of a desperate soul enmired in a love/hate relationship with his favorite team. Call it the nostalgia of a former D-I reserve who once dreamed of being Gary Burley or Coy Bacon or Reggie Williams. Call it whatever you like, everything's probably accurate- or was at one time. But, finally, call it over.

Laying an egg like the Bengals did tonight was the final straw. Colerain or X could have given the Saints a better game. Only we could make an all-pro out of a LB I'd never even heard of in Scott Shanley. Our first team O-Line couldn't protect our franchise QB from either the first or second team Saints defense. It was like they had never heard of a blitz or a stunt. The defense showed up every now and again but mainly benefited from some inept ball possession by the Saints scrubs. As of last week, Carson said it wasn't anything to worry about. It was just pre-season. Even tonight, T.J., while admitting it was awful seemed relatively unphased by the spectacle. Marvin's been deballed publicly by the retarded House of Brown and I'd be shocked if we won 3 games this season. That's enough. I've had it. I refuse to contribute to anything going into Mikey's pocket.

Due to my perpetual man-crush on Brett Favre, I am now a Jets fan.

[Scott Ricketts]

I've changed my mind: 3-13.

[Rob]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!! this football team sucks, always has sucked and always will suck. after 39 years of blind loyalty, i should actually THANK mikey "shitsuck" brown for re-signing chris henry, therefore allowing me to liberate myself from loving this perennial loser. i haven't yet decided who my new team is gonna be but i know for sure who i WON'T be rooting for this year or ever again. i still have a bit of a man-crush on carson and i hope he goes to a real football team someday and i will no longer get pleasure out of a picture that looks like he was just in a car accident. i hate this team, i hate this owner, i hate this coach. how does bob bratkowski keep his job? why does marvin lewis keep his? (i would have paid whatever penalty that was in the contract and walked after ol "shitsuck" re-signed everyone's favorite one man crime wave). enjoy another 3-13 or worse, bengals fans. i used to feel your pain and frustration but all that negativity has turned to joy with my new found freedom. the joy comes from seeing the softest, most mismanaged team in the history of the greatest sport on earth get EXACTLY WHAT THEY DESERVE. who dey? just about anybody, fellas. i've said it before on this forum and i'll say it at the end of every bitter, bengal bashing post...........FUCK YOU CINCINNATI BENGALS!!!!!