NFL 2016-2017 Season

[Ryan Ruck]

Damn near speechless about what happened with that PAT...

At what point do we look at bringing in the backup kicker? Nugent is getting to be far too unreliable.

I guess at this point. Nugent released.

[Ryan Ruck]

So far we've got ourselves a pretty good game going between the Bengals and Steelers!

[Ryan Ruck]

Bengals fighting hard for that TD!

[Ryan Ruck]

Man, been a bit since we've seen some serious gameplay out of the Bengals like this.

On top of that AJ Green is out which makes it that much more surprising.

[Ryan Ruck]

There has been a definite role reversal in this game.

The Bengals are playing like I'd expect Pittsburg to play and Pittsburg is playing like I'd expect the Bengals to play (being held to just FGs and all).

Hope it can keep up after the half.

[Ryan Ruck]

Bengals are going to have to start putting some more points on the board or Pittsburgh will end up pulling a Bengals with an ugly win via FGs.

[Ryan Ruck]

Jesus... 6 FGs by Pitt. Now within 1 FG.

[Ryan Ruck]

Well, this is it. The Bengals managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory as usual just giving up everything in the second half.

More penalty yards than offensive yards.

At this point with their loss, the Bengals are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs.

The only silver lining I'm looking for is that hopefully this means the end of Marvin Lewis's extraordinarily mediocre reign in Cincinnati.

[Malsua]

I used to live in Ohio, closer to Cleveland and it was always the Browns or the Steelers. No one considered the Bengals, it may as well have been the Honolulu Bengals for all we cared.

That said, I get a kick out of reading posts from friends back home about the Browns or Bengals, because I know no Ohio team will ever be allowed to win, there simply aren't enough people in their cities.

The organization is designed to print money. If you can print 20 billion with a Giants win or 1.2 billion with a Bengals win, you don't let the Bengals win. It's really that simple. Oh, it's not as simple as ordering people to not play, they simply arrange it so the key players never get on those teams, even if the team can afford to pay them.

Watch everything the national funding lobby does, or, God forbid, you do anything under contract for them, you will find an organization that is grasping at every level.

My company did promotional items for them at one point. Not only were they insanely restrictive on color match of the items(I get this mostly, but when only a machine can tell the difference, it's enough), they limited the number that could be produced to an arbitrarily low number and they wanted us to provide reports to see how much we made on the items, presumably to raise their royalty. Idiotic.

[Ryan Ruck]

You know, it really does make you wonder... Like why would someone like Marvin Lewis be allowed to be kept around for as long as he has been when compared to other, equally long tenured coaches (of teams in bigger markets I'd add!) his performance is absolutely terrible.

And I can vouch for that limited numbers production stuff.

Saw that first hand with their Salute To Service line of apparel, where it is camo themed team clothing to support the military and a percentage of sales goes to a couple military charities. Last year I missed out buying a jacket and hat because they sold out so fast. No reason to make limited production numbers because it typically sells so well but they did.

Actually managed to get a jacket and hat this year but I bet if you go look at the Bengals Pro Shop online right now you can't find any Salute To Service stuff.

[Ryan Ruck]

Looks like the Bengals may have shown up to win today.

Too bad it's a totally meaningless game with neither team being playoff bound.

Here's to hoping for Marvin Lewis's retirement!

[Ryan Ruck]

Very nice end zone interception by the Bengals!

[Ryan Ruck]

Wow, some recent big news with NFL teams' locations! First the Chargers going to L.A. Now the Raiders going to Vegas!

[vector7]

That Super Bowl was a great game, total nail biter!!!





And watching the Left lose their minds for Brady being a personal friend to Trump...





Priceless!!!

[Ryan Ruck]

Yes it was!

Wasn't cheering for either team in particular but it was entertaining to watch. On the one hand I wouldn't have minded seeing the underdog win, on the other hand Brady is Conservative leaning popular QB.

I had a feeling deep down when the announcers were talking about what a huge hole NE had to dig out of, it wasn't really all that big of a hole and I was correct!

[Ryan Ruck]

BTW, everyone watching in the room was rolling their eyes at the 84 Lumber commercial.

Then my middle brother said, "Wouldn't it be funny if they got to the border and there was a wall."

And I said, "Even better they get to the wall and, plot twist, it's being built with 84 Lumber wood and this turns out to be a pro American commercial!"

Everyone had a good laugh!


ETA: Hahaha! I just found the full length video and I wasn't wrong (sorta)!

[Brian Baldwin]

Technically I suppose this should go into next season's thread, but we don't really start that until late summer. Bengals picked Ross as their number one and I think that's one of the better picks they've done in a few years. Should put your team back in the running Ryan. Mixon just made me shake my head. What is it with drafting these guys with character issues lol. Hopefully he learned from it and matured.

[Brian Baldwin]

I'm excited by the Steelers first choice of T. J. Watt. If he's half as good as his brother our defense may be top of the line again. The real eye opener to me though has been Cleveland. Three first rounders and all good ones. Of course they're kinda screwed at QB for now unless Osweiler improves.

[Brian Baldwin]

Cleveland just went with QB Kizer in the second round. Bad draft for QBs actually so I'm not sure that really helps them. We'll see. Brady was a sixth rounder after all.

[Ryan Ruck]

With the release of the 2017-2018 schedule, I was going to go ahead and start the new thread. I've just been too busy to hunt down the schedule to post it.

Didn't catch the draft but I did hear about Mixon on the news last night. I guess we'll see about him. I think the Bengals think they are bargain hunting but, sometimes you just get what you pay for.

On the other hand I do remember watching the video of his incident and, while the optics of what he did were bad, that chick did swing at him first and the authorities did only charge him with a misdemeanor that got dropped. Everyone wants equality until it's time to do equal shit...