Bengals Collapse: What It Means

The Bengals don't just hilariously misspell their own player's names, they also fail in even more spectacular ways!  Let's take a walk through the discarded remains of the 2010 Cincinnati Bengals after their historic collapse!

• Guaranteed 18th non-winning season in last 20 years.
• Lost 12 of last 15 games.
• From Reedy: This is the 11th losing streak in team history of seven straight or more and the ninth since 1991.
• "If the season ended today, the Bengals would have the third pick in the draft. Last year at this time they were the third seed in the AFC. Now, they have the worst record in the conference...."
• Bengals will likely be underdogs in their remaining 6 games  As Reedy wrote: "The Bengals have never gone winless in October AND November in the same season. Guess what? It looks like it has a very good chance of happening."
• Marvin is officially dead man walking. 
• TO: Welcome to Bengals Nation! After the game, TO said what we all know.  No more "we need to play all 4 quarters" or "A few big plays here or there and we would be right back in it.  Nope, he said ""Let me look you in the eyes and emphasize - we are terrible.  Let me emphasize terrible. We find ways to lose. We may go two and whatever. Fourteen."
• Bengals are guaranteed to start next season, their 12th in PBS, without a playoff win.  How do you calculate that Return on Investment on a $600M stadium?

So the question, like most years, is where do we go from here?  As fans, have you finally had enough?  Do you finally see that in a league with the parity of the NFL, you are going to have flash in the pan seasons like 2005 and 2009, but without the foundation of a strong front office, coaching, training, scouts, etc, you will ALWAYS regress to the bottom?  To paraphrase Doc, does Mike Brown want to win?  Yes, much like I want to win the lottery or get cozy with a Victoria's Secret.  It might happen, but its all luck. 

If you want to see the Bengals win football games, it is time for fans to stop complaining and hoping, and to stop supporting this team financially.  Until then, the Browns have no incentive to change.

Comments

[Major Payne]

The entire organization is broken. The coaching. The scouting. The medical staff. The personnel. The team spirit. And most of all the management. Not a single aspect of this franchise is run at an NFL level. But we all knew that much already.

And as we have already beaten to death, the ONLY road out of this deep of a MFB-dug hellhole is a kickass coach with the knowledge and the control to fix it. But we all know that Mike Brown ain't going there. Welcome, sir, to the machine.

[Rich]

Phillips is gone in Dallas.
Childress is gone in Minnesota.
What does it say that the Bengals won't make Zimmer the interim?

[DieDieDieMikeBrown]

It doesn't matter if you make Zimmer the interim if you've got no scouts, shitty team doctors, no general manager, etc.
It's just musical chairs on the deck of the Titanic.

It won't be fixed until Mike Brown is dead or sells the team.

[Wyatt]

Here we go again, boys.

Think back, all the way back, to late 2002. Dick LeBeau, widely respected defensive coordinator, goes 2-14 as the Cincinnati Bengals head coach, in what would prove to be his final season in that position. Fan unrest was at an all-time high (for that point at least), so Mikey Brown dropped the ax, and hired a promising defensive coordinator who was seen as a breath of fresh air to an organization that needed one badly. A few months later, they drafted the can't-miss, Heisman-winning quarterback from a PAC-10 school in California, and optimism overtook the downtrodden fanbase. 8 years later, we've gotten two winning seasons, two more non-losing seasons, zero playoff wins, a bunch of draft picks that didn't pan out, and what's shaping up to be another 2-14 season, with fan unrest creeping ever higher.

Mikey Boy's looking to hit the reset switch - new head coach is almost guaranteed, we're inching ever closer to that first pick in the draft and there just so happens to be a can't-miss, likely-Heisman-winning quarterback from a PAC-10 school in California, and Mikey can cut Carson with very little, if any, financial ramifications.

The sad thing is that there are enough sheep-like Bengals fans out there that if he were to do that, once they were done being butt-hurt about Carson getting cut, they'd be right back in line to buy tickets.

[DieDieDieMikeBrown]

@Wyatt: That's the thing there's suckers born every minute.

Mikey Boy can probably keep up this wash, rinse, repeat act until he's a 90+ year old like the bastard in Buffalo.

[Djcbengals2000]

Not only should all fan spending on this perpetual train wreck cease and desist, but any support from fans for the coporate sponsers should stop as well. Maybe if MFB's corporate enablers put some pressure on King Bunghole, he might get the message. Not likely, but you just never know.

[AM]

This is all BS. How many WDR writers went to the playoff game last year? I would love to see the rationale behind attending the game by the bloggers who attended. Call me crazy, but in my mind, attending that game is equal to supporting MB. You obviously believed MB was turning it around, right? I just can't believe the people behind WDR are like the other sheep in Cincy who will take any of the crumbs MB throws us. Or did you throw away all your rules to go to a Bengals playoff game.

Hate to break it to you but your boycotts will only make an impact if Bengals fans don't go to games, especially the important ones.

I fully bought into WDR a few years back, I even supported it financially. Unfortunately, WDR lost all credibility when some of the more prominent members went to the playoff game last year. I haven't spent a dime on the NFL since i sold my season tickets in the summer of 2007. Its actually surprising how little i miss paying MB to kick me in the balls every year.

have fun planning and executing all your next project mayhem initiatives.....then conveniently forgetting your scruples when we get our next "flash in the pan."

[Wyatt]

AM,

Who went to the playoff game last year? I somehow missed that. (And I'm being honest here, not sarcastic.)

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