Quick thoughts - Bengals

[HoosierinFL]

My summary boils down to "we lost, anyone surprised? nope"

[GoBigBlue88]

Originally Posted by HoosierinFL

My summary boils down to "we lost, anyone surprised? nope"

More troubling: "we lost, anyone care? nope."

[omahacolt]

Originally Posted by GoBigBlue88

More troubling: "we lost, anyone care? nope."

i care

[Butter]

Originally Posted by omahacolt

i care

Me too. Rationally I know higher draft pick better, but I hate losing and feel like the team is breeding a losing culture. The Browns have had a decade of high picks.

[Hoopsdoc]

Originally Posted by Butter

Me too. Rationally I know higher draft pick better, but I hate losing and feel like the team is breeding a losing culture. The Browns have had a decade of high picks.

Yeah, but the Browns keep inexplicably passing on good quarterbacks to draft Johnny Manziel and Deshone Kizer.

[WaynesWorld87]

What's so hilariously frustrating about this season is that even without Luck we could still very well be 5-3 if we had just a semi-competent head coach and coaching staff. The Cardinals, Titans, and Bengals losses were all VERY winnable with a competent head coach/coaching staff. Hell, even though the Seahawks beat us by 32, that game was close at halftime. If we had a coach who didn't just go into the halftime lockeroom and clap his hands a few dozen times before relaxing and catching up on his needlpoint the rest of halftime, we might have actually remained competitive the rest of the game.

However, at this point I'm actually ok with us losing games because it means we get a higher draft pick. Luck is obviously, probably, not coming back this season or any time soon, so we're probably better off losing as many games as possible. But it's still extremely frustrating to see us sitting at 2-6 when three or four of our six losses were VERY winnable games.

[VeveJones007]

Originally Posted by WaynesWorld87

What's so hilariously frustrating about this season is that even without Luck we could still very well be 5-3 if we had just a semi-competent head coach and coaching staff. The Cardinals, Titans, and Bengals losses were all VERY winnable with a competent head coach/coaching staff. Hell, even though the Seahawks beat us by 32, that game was close at halftime. If we had a coach who didn't just go into the halftime lockeroom and clap his hands a few dozen times before relaxing and catching up on his needlpoint the rest of halftime, we might have actually remained competitive the rest of the game.

However, at this point I'm actually ok with us losing games because it means we get a higher draft pick. Luck is obviously, probably, not coming back this season or any time soon, so we're probably better off losing as many games as possible. But it's still extremely frustrating to see us sitting at 2-6 when three or four of our six losses were VERY winnable games.

What it tells me is that the Colts can return to competence next season with some good coaching hires and a healthy Luck.

[daedge]

Originally Posted by GoBigBlue88

More troubling: "we lost, anyone care? nope."

Sad but true.

I'm past caring about the results this season. Well past it.

The only thing I care about is a coaching clean-out.

A top-five draft pick will also be nice.

I'm done with this season. I'm beyond demoralized.

[DrSpaceman]

Originally Posted by HoosierinFL

My summary boils down to "we lost, anyone surprised? nope"

No

And even with the ball at the 45 yard line and time to get in FG range, I still didn't think this team would win.

And with the ball deep in their own territory up by 6, my feeling was they were going to throw an INT.

Lets just face it about JB.......he is a back up and he plays like it. I don't blame him for the losses. He is basically a rookie. His coaches suck.

However, he can't handle a pass rush. He makes bad decisions with the ball. He has a rocket arm and can thread the needle with his passes, time after time have seen him do that. Its not the physical part of being a QB he needs to master. He is still just a LONG way from being a good, week to week starting QB.

Yes there are drops. Too many. But there are also far too many sacks that truly fall on him and bad decisions that fall on him. You can't take a sack in the last two minutes while driving for the win like we saw today.

And yes he had to learn a new playbook coming here, but we are halfway into the season by now, there really should not be that limited of a playbook at this point.

[GoBigBlue88]

Originally Posted by DrSpaceman

He has a rocket arm

Except when he needs to throw to the fucking end zone! That underthrown pass to TY Hilton drove me crazy.