This isn't a real post. I mean it's not even a half-ass attempt to be a real post. This is just the lowest of the low. I thought I had hit a new low point of Bengals fanship at 27-7, but it turns out, nope, the real low was at 27-21 when we couldn't complete the comeback. I've been stranded in the bumblefields of northwest arkansas forever on a work assignment that is killing me, and so haven't been able to post as I wanted, but this is just unbearable. It's just a new low. Despite befriending the Ohio-native waitress at the local Buffalo Wild Wings in the midst of a sea of pretender gold and black who all left in the middle of the third quarter, I come away from tonight with nothing positive to say. Are we good? Somewhat. Are we good enough? Clearly not. And I don't know how that gets fixed. We probably don't need a blowup, but we need something, and I don't know what it is. I am 100percent certain Mike Brown doesn't know what it is.
The New York Mets have in the past few weeks gone to work hiring the smartest people they can afford to support their new front office behind new GM Sandy Alderson. While I realize the term "GM" may be a fool's wish when it comes to the Bengals and Mike B even considering ceding control of the extra charge for onions on my 4-way, I think they sadly provide the best hope we have of contending. I can't talk about it now when I'm wasted (note the fact that I spent enough money to get to this point is of course the only reason I befriended the "Bengals fan" waitress to begin with), but the bottom line is more than anything we need an infusion of brains to our front office and coaching staff. We need people who understand the right thing to do statistically, and not just by Mike Zimmer's gut feeling. I love Mike Zimmer the man as much as anyone, and frankly I love Marvin Lewis the man too, but the bottom line is their units haven't been good enough. Yes our offense has been a weak link, but all of the big plays resonating for me from this game were on defense and special teams. We didn't make the plays, they did.
I will have a far more thoughtful post sometime this week, I hope, but right now this is a drunken stupor rant - hopefully contained rant - where I just point out that we are not good enough to win on this level. and that starts with the operational head of this franchise. That starts with Mike Brown.
Listening to Dave Lapham interview Marvin Lewis before the game while stuck in traffic on 75 south because they decided to pave three fucking lanes at rush hour was perhaps the most painful moment of my life. Ever notice that Lapham's question are like fifty times longer than the answer could ever possibly be? It is hilarious. And has there ever been a worse mouth of a franchise than Marvin "so forth" Lewis. I swear to God that d-bag has said "so forth" in every interview he has stumbled through. The guy looks and sounds like a sixty eight year old raging alcoholic who is just learning English. Fuck the Bengals. And I was at the freezer bowl for Chrissake.
Posted by: TJ | November 09, 2010 at 02:06 AM
Disband the team. Please. How much more suffering must Mike Brown put us through?
Instead he will hire Bart-cow-ski to be head coach next year, and the city will actually implode from nuclear incompetence.
Disband the team now for the sake of our city's survival.
Posted by: monotone man | November 09, 2010 at 02:16 AM
Clearly we are having another disappointing year and coming off one of the more disappointing losses in recent memory. However, I'd like to point out we could have been in this same position last year. The difference between this year and last year is that somehow last year we caught enough breaks to squeak by and this year it's just not happening. If anything I think we're a better team offensively, just not good enough to overcome a fired up defensive stand.
Fucking steelers...
Posted by: some guy | November 09, 2010 at 06:32 AM
Oh, and i can't wait to go to work and listen to the "steeler's fans" gloat about their win - who probably can't even name the head coach or even what division their in. They just probably have a relative or parent who lived in Shittsburgh for some period of time and because of that declare their loyalty.
Fucking Steelers Fans
Posted by: some guy | November 09, 2010 at 06:36 AM
FUCK YOU MIKE BROWN!!!
The torment of supporting this team is getting to be too much!
B Scott starts us in the hole 7-0. Fucking mistakes that can't be made continue to be made.
Once again...
FUCK YOU MIKE BROWN!!!
Posted by: DELONTE | November 09, 2010 at 09:02 AM
Aside from the mistakes, the rest of the Bengals play was great to watch. Losing thru fundamental mistakes seems par for the course for this team, but otherwise it was a great game to watch...I'm not totally disappointed...however, I do have a headline for B-Hob, for all future Bengals endeavors:
"Bengals Lose Heartbreaker In Offseason"
Posted by: Hofbraunow | November 09, 2010 at 09:03 AM
This just in:
Bengals Lose Heartbreaker In Offseason
...film way before eleven
Posted by: Hofbraunow | November 09, 2010 at 09:15 AM
Look on the bright side guys... now we have more time to focusing on scouting!
Posted by: MFB | November 09, 2010 at 10:16 AM
It all revolves around coaching. I'm beginning to think Marvin just doesn't care anymore.
Gruden was predicting the plays from the booth.
Posted by: eric | November 09, 2010 at 07:23 PM