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sandgk said:
And to be quite candid from the perspective of a Bengals fan this game is your classic trap game. Noone expects anything from the Browns this weekend. Many have already penciled in the "W". As Corso might quip, "not so fast, my friend." The gap between a beaten, battered and depleted Browns and the relatively healthy Bengals is slimmer than some might admit.

This game should be won by the Bengals, should be won convincingly. However, if the Bengals let their foot of the gas and allow the Browns the time to play, the Browns become a dangerous opponent. If the Bengals are not on their game and are instead looking forward to stiffer competition - then the Browns, who will be playing with pride, become a dangerous opponent.
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Anything is possible. But, with Edwards out, a new QB and a weak D it would be an upset of Biblical proportions. I would say the odds are better for an Indy loss than a Bengals loss this weekend.
 
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I'm assuming that the Bengals will be their normal selves this Sunday, in which case the Browns will not be able to win. But I will say the Browns are playing with pride this season and haven't given up a lot of points. I think the Bengals will win by 15-20 points, but it will be a physical game.
 
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The game will be a pretty boring Bengals blowout...but I can't wait until sometime in the middle of the 4th quarter when a message goes up on the scoreboard and the crowd erupts:
Chicago 17 Pittsburgh 10 Final </p>Man, oh man, I'm going to be shivering my ass off sitting on the top deck of Paul Brown Stadium, but I'll be feeling drunk and happy knowing that we're finally division champs </p>Who Dey!
 
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StadiumDorm said:
Rookie QB vs. Opportunistic Defense. High-Powered Offense vs. young, injury-plagued defense. Not a recipe for a Browns' victory. More like an Emeril Lagasse special for an ass-whoopin'. And this is coming from a Browns' fan.
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SD,
It looks like you didn't have enough faith in your guys. Meanwhile, I had this to say: "But I will say the Browns are playing with pride this season and haven't given up a lot of points." Someone else pointed out that this was a classic "trap" game, coming right after a big victory against a team you've already beaten. The Bengals managed to pull it out anyway, but the Browns made them earn it. Good game. Bring on the Bills!
 
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GoBucks89 said:
SD,
It looks like you didn't have enough faith in your guys. Meanwhile, I had this to say: "But I will say the Browns are playing with pride this season and haven't given up a lot of points." Someone else pointed out that this was a classic "trap" game, coming right after a big victory against a team you've already beaten. The Bengals managed to pull it out anyway, but the Browns made them earn it. Good game. Bring on the Bills!
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GoBucks89 - you and I were on the same page for this game. (I was the one the who said this could end up being a trap game, with the Browns playing well). The Browns did play with pride and did make it very interesting in the stretch.

Thankfully for Bengal fans llike me the result is "W" for the home team.

Damn - apparently this isn't the first time today we've been on the same page
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12/19/05

Congratulations to Cincy fans.....

COMMENTARY

Bungles no more: Laughingstock label put to rest
Monday, December 19, 2005


ROB OLLER

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DETROIT — The jokes and wisecracks jumped ship some time ago, leaving Cincinnati for punch lines like Houston, New Orleans and . . . Detroit. Call them the Bungles these days and risk sounding like an out-of-touch parent who thinks the Backstreet Boys are the band du jour among 11-year-old girls. Puh-leeeze.


The memory of David Klingler, Ki-Jana Carter and Akili Smith no longer haunt come draft day. The combined 52-124 coaching record (.295) of Dave Shula, Bruce Coslet and Dick LeBeau is now something to chuckle over instead of mock.

The postseason drought — 14 seasons between playoff berths (1990 to 2005) — has ended.

The Bengals are in. Not in trouble. Not in over their heads. But in the playoffs, as AFC North Division champions, no less. The last demon has been exorcised.

It’s appropriate that it happened against the pitiful Lions — or are they the Die-ins? — who have become what the Bengals were for most of the past 15 years.

Cincinnati’s 41-17 victory yesterday recalled some of the games in which the Bengals played conductor in their own train wreck. Like the 38-3 comedy against the Houston Oilers in 1993 or the 37-0 no-show against the Baltimore Ravens in 2000. This time, however, it was Detroit dumbing down its game to a new level of incompetence. Don’t think Lions fans didn’t notice. Half the Ford Field crowd wore orange. The other half were Bengals fans.

The term Bengals followers used to be something of an oxymoron. A generation of kids grew up knowing only Bengals ineptitude, thinking that winless starts (0-10 in ’93; 0-8 in ’94; 0-7 in ’02) were the norm.

What? We won a game before Thanksgiving? Is that allowed to happen?
Even the players wondered when things would change.

"I just (re-signed) when we got Akili, and that was supposed to be our franchise quarterback," said right offensive tackle Willie Anderson, who arrived in 1996 and immediately received his indoctrination into the Bengals’ way when they lost six of their first seven. "I thought there would be change immediately, but it took five years."

And as many quarterbacks. From 1998 until 2004, the Bengals started seven different quarterbacks in seven season openers.

Still, for Anderson and center Rich Braham, who arrived in 1994, it was always a matter of when, not if, success would arrive.

"Even a garbage can gets a steak every now and then," Anderson said.

Now it is T-bone time in Cincinnati. With the possibility of filet mignon to come. It is a measure of how far the Bengals have come in three seasons under coach Marvin Lewis that they barely whooped it up after dismantling the Lions. This is a team not satisfied with only a division title, which seems all the more startling because the franchise appeared satisfied to lose during all those ugly seasons.

"Our first goal was to become AFC North Division champions. One down," Lewis said in the afterglow. "But we’ve only accomplished the first step. This gives everybody in Cincinnati something to smile about. It means a lot, but there’s a lot left to do."

The Bengals believe, and rightfully so, that they can contend for the Super Bowl. But getting there with so many young players who have never experienced NFL playoff football will require more than simply showing up.

That works against the Lions, but not against real competition. "We’re pretty young, so you can’t coach for the Bengals with your arms crossed and your hands in your pockets," Lewis said. But you can finally cheer for them without wearing a bag over your head. The Bungles? "Ain’t nobody going to say that no more," receiver Chad Johnson said. Nobody but a fool.

Rob Oller is a sports reporter for The Dispatch .
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Great day yesterday. I just hope that we can overtake the Broncos and take the 2 seed and not the 3. Right now we are looking to face the Steelers and that will be a tough on to beat them 2 times in a row.
I would be OK with the Steelers loosing again.
 
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