{The Ultimate Bengals Offseason Extravaganza Thread}

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(03-20-2025, 11:05 AM)rfaulk34 Wrote: "the same non-playoff team". I get it. 

No two seasons are the same. The Bengals started off 0-5 in 1 score games last year. Win just 1 and they're in. I doubt they start 0-5 in 1 score games again, because it's just not the norm. 

Quicker starts. Finishing games. That's all subjective to preparation and effort. They could just as easily start the season 6-0 with the squad they have. That's not unreasonable to say. 

They have players coming back from injury and they have the draft. 
They have the weapons core for at least 4 more years and the elite QB. If they end up with a shitty Oline...well, welcome to Bengals fandom for the last 5 years. 

I wouldn't say SB bound but i also wouldn't say lost season, even as we sit here now. 

The team is pretty much the same, but it's really not because teams have different seasons every year with the same players. 

Would be more likely to agree with you if it weren't also a non-playoff team in 2023 too, with the same slow start, the same shitty OL, players incoming from the draft, players coming back from injury, the same philosophic hatred of running the ball. 

You saying starting 6-0 this year is "just as easy" and not unreasonable ignores the fact that they are 1-11 in the first two weeks over the 6 years of the Taylor era. I'll believe that Zac has changed those stripes when I see it. 6 years is a long time to say you'll suddenly change to what you've always been, but I would sure love it if he did. I just think banking on everyone changing and suddenly becoming better is just not a real plan.