Is Shemar holding out?

[*ochocincos*]

(Today, 12:11 AM)sandwedge Wrote: I hate this excuse. Doesn't matter who we play, we have to beat them. Would you have been happier if we had lost any game in that playoff run? We almost got in because we beat the teams we had to and the young guys on D were playing better.  

True, but beating a team well under .500 is far less impressive than beating a team with a winning record and in contention for playoffs.
And beating those teams with better records may end up having playoff tiebreaker/seeding implications too.

Bengals ended up beating two playoff teams in DEN and PIT, which was a good thing. They nearly squeaked into the playoffs due to a tiebreaker because of it.
But the wins against CLE and TEN really weren't impressive at all. Those are expected to happen and a disappointment if they didn't.