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You Sorry Clowns managed to also lose your last game to the Texans & that was the ONE game I picked you to WIN.

Clown Hunter you remember what the Bengals were like before Marvn Lewis got their.A team that lacked A)confidence B) A idenity C) Players that were passionate and cared.

Nope I sat in the Dawg Pound when Gus Ferrotte threw a left handed pass to Kennard Lang.

Saw that hit at the bar yesterday, loved it. Very Turkey Jones esque wasn't it. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

For so long,the Steelers and Ravens whipped on the 'Nati.So pardon the Bengals if they got caught up in the moment and won the division.

But we know if he talks he is going to back it up

Nope, KW2 owns him . Period. All of that smack and Winslow was the one who backed it up

So you are saying that the Bengals have to model their offense after the Steelers and Ravens in order to achieve?
The Bengals are a pass 1st team..Thats their idenity on offense.Your statement about Rudi Johnson is so far off the truth..He was 3rd in the AFC in carries.He actually ran the ball more than Willie Parker.

How can you fault Chad Johnson for winning a NFL recieving title and Carson for throwing for more than 4,000 yards?

You say the Bengals have no defense...They allowed 20.7 pts a game..the Steelers allowed 19.7.

CINCINNATI - The end came yesterday with Steelers wide receiver Santonio Holmes running free in the Cincinnati secondary, speeding toward the end zone, incapable of being caught.

The beginning of the end came earlier, much earlier, with guys who got caught.

Odell Thurman. Chris Henry. Eric Steinbach. Reggie McNeil. Deltha O'Neal. Matthias Askew. A.J. Nicholson. Frostee Rucker.

[color:"red"]The final tally: Eight arrests. Eight losses.[/color]

Ocho stinko.

[color:"red"]"We were a very average football team," said quarterback Carson Palmer.[/color]

After the Bengals lost to Pittsburgh 23-17 yesterday, officially deep-sixing their wafer-thin playoff chances thanks to Holmes' 67-yard touchdown grab-and-gun from quarterback Ben Roethlisberger three snaps into overtime, Marvin Lewis said, "It takes people who are selfless."

You didn't need a net to catch his drift.

Perhaps Cincinnati's off-the-field problems did not directly contribute to its slip from an 11-5 playoff team to a mediocre 8-8 edition that will be watching the post-season on a plasma.

But it certainly set the tone. A distracted tone. An undisciplined tone. A tone of personal agendas being put ahead of team sacrifice.

"We grossly underachieved," Willie Anderson, the all-pro offensive tackle, his 11th season behind him, said from his locker yesterday. "People should be really embarrassed about the performance of this football team. In street terms, this is a sorry football team."

It was certainly inadequate yesterday. The Bengals missed tackles, dropped passes, committed silly penalties. [color:"red"] At one point on the home sideline, safety Dexter Jackson had to be restrained from going after linebacker Caleb Miller. That's Jackson's teammate, Caleb Miller.[/color]

"Marvin hinted on it at the beginning of the week," Anderson continued. "One word. Selfish. That's not me saying it. That's me reading the quote from my head coach saying it. From selfishness, different things get broke down under that."

Selfish? How? Who?

Anderson wouldn't answer that. He offered this: "It's not always about talent. Sometimes it's about smart, selfless football players."

Sometimes it's a little of both. Take Chad Johnson. You can argue that few want to win more than the high-profile Cincinnati receiver. You can argue that many know better ways to go about it.

"I don't know what selfish means, unless somebody's talking about me," said Johnson when informed of Anderson's comment. "Am I selfish because I want to win? Am I selfish because sometimes as a receiver you want the ball to help your team win? That's what it all comes down to. Selfish in that way, then yeah."

Later, he added, "Isn't selfish good?"

Selfless is better.

Single Worst Play of the Season So Far: It's overtime in the Pittsburgh at Cincinnati game. The defending champion Steelers are eliminated from postseason play, but Cincinnati must win to keep its playoff chance alive -- and it would later turn out that had Cincinnati won, Denver's surprise loss would have put the Trick or Treats into the postseason. Pittsburgh faces first-and-10 on its 33. The Bengals start a chain-reaction of fiasco by big-blitzing. Santonio Holmes catches a quick slant in front of Cincinnati corner Tory James, who stumbles. James then turns around and watches Holmes run 67 yards for the winning touchdown. It's overtime of the final game, if you don't catch the Pittsburgh runner your season ends, and James just stood there watching Holmes run; eventually, he sort-of jogged in the general direction of the play. Several other Bengals just stood watching Holmes head up the sideline, too. It's overtime of the final game, if you don't catch the Pittsburgh runner your season ends! Cincinnati Bengals, you committed the Single Worst Play of the 2006 Regular Season. Afterward, Carson Palmer whined, "This is just another game we shouldn't have lost to a team we feel we're better than." Carson: You prove this on the field, not in the media room. The no-account Bengals had no business in the playoffs, and the football gods spoke.

Browns and Steelers can agree than the constant non stop talking from a team that has only had 1 winning season in forever is a bit tiresome. They just have to let everybody know how good they think they are. They can not shut up on their own so its up to us to shut them up.

Bungles have NO DEFENSE. You will NEVER go far in the playoffs with a high school defense. On offense they are talented chokers. Every big stage there is always a choke involved.

Hope you guys still enjoy your division title t-shirts and hats from last year. <img src="/images/graemlins/rofl.gif" alt="" />