The Niners are so hard to watch. The Cowboys all but hand them the game, and Harbaugh is still a huge fucking whiner to the refs. I really hope his incessant bitching at the refs backfires on his ass.
I didn’t expect the Dolphins to look that great. Especially not against the Pats.
Yeah, the “97 Texans” had me scratching my head for a while.
Clowney out with a knee injury.
I didn’t like the signing when it was made and I like it less now. Looked like Manziel had stolen his uniform.
The phins always play the Pats well at home. Wouldn’t surprise me if they had the best record against Belichick of any team.
As I look at this week’s stats so far, the teams with more penalty yards (assessed against them) are 9-4. Which I think says something about playing-it-safe vs. taking risks.
Media tends to give people what they want, what sells. Which makes me wonder who in the fuck are these people who’d rather hear former players blather on cliches about the games of the day rather than ACTUALLY WATCHING THOSE GAMES?
On MNF, they show literally 8 seconds from most of the games now. The whole highlights of the day section lasts about 2 minutes, so they can spend 15 minutes on the blather. Inside the NFL is even worse, the whole purpose of that show is their fantastic NFL films highlights, but they cut out even covering all the games so they could add bullshit commentary and heartwarming stories about some retarded puppy that plays football.
How many playoff games did they win in the last five years? Outside of Ohio, getting to the playoffs just sets the stage for an accomplishment - it’s not that big a deal in and of itself. So the Bengals are gonna be called shitty until they win another playoff game. The last time that happened, I was in high school.
I’m a few months shy of 40.
Oh yeah, I’m a Ravens fan. If I’d called the team “shitty,” it would have been the kindest thing I said during the first half.
Best to go to a Dunkin Donuts and self-medicate with a couple of those purple-frosted jobs.
You gotta give the people what they want, but also what they didn’t already get from somewhere else. I remember the days when halftime of Monday Night Football was full of highlights of the weekend games, narrated by Howard Cosell; and if you liked someone other than the hometown team, that was your only chance to see them. These days, SportsCenter has the highlights before the final gun has stopped echoing in the stadium. By halftime of the Monday night game, you’ve had a dozen chances to see what happened over the weekend. Might as well have someone blather cliches as show something everyone’s already seen.
You mean that first half where your offense couldn’t do shit and your defense allowed a 15-0 deficit? Perhaps you meant the Ravens in the first half. There’s been this thing going on in Cincinnati for over five years rolling now, it’s called a top 5-10 defense, perhaps you’ve heard of it?
I agree that the deficit of playoff wins is an issue for BOTH Ohio teams, but let’s not act like the Ravens aren’t the former Browns stolen in the middle of the night, first of all, and secondly, Flacco had ONE good run in the playoffs and that was two years ago when they won it all. Other than that, the Ratbirds had been all defense, all the time. Now we’re in an era where that’s just not going to work anymore (And Stabbing Ray has retired anyway).
Anyway, congrats. Finally the Bengals defeat the Ravens under Dalton, and the Ravens lose their first home opener since like 2006. Sweet!
And if just getting to the playoffs isn’t a big deal, why didn’t the Ravens do it last season? They won the Superbowl the year before…surely it’s no big deal to get back there then…right?
Wow, how many big leads blown or almost blown this week?
Well yeah, of course I meant the Ravens. “Shitty” would have been far and away the nicest thing I had to say about the Ravens while I was watching that game.
The kindest thing I had to say about anything, if I’m being completely honest about it. 
Anyway, congrats on the win.
Oy, don’t get me started. NBC’s awful Football Night in America is the most offensive to me. Every game package is like, “Chargers at the Ravens, here’s Ray Lewis getting his team pumped before the kickoff. Later in the first, here’s Philip Rivers throwing an interception. Then, in the 3rd, Ray Rice runs it in from the 1-yard line … and the Ravens cruise to a 24-7 win.” Then they spend 90 seconds having 8 people talk about how Ray Lewis gives the Ravens an element of toughness.
And that shit would all be fine, except they had to kill NFL Primetime on ESPN in order to make their shitty highlight show happen. I mean, click on that link: *that’s *a highlight show. 2:00-2:30 minutes of actual highlights per game, than about 10-30 seconds of commentary, then on to the next game. Yes, please. Back in the day I used to try and avoid scores from around the league during the day because the highlights on *Primetime *were so fun to watch.
Are Berman and Jackson again doing their “The Blitz” packages on SportsCenter this year?
Bold prediction: Cincy meets Denver in the AFC championship game.
That would require Andy Dalton and his career playoff QB ranking 56.2 get injured sometime during the season.
I guess the troubling thing is these primadonna sports analysts think we need to look at their faces while they blather on. If they spend two or three minutes talking, that would be enough time to also show most of the interesting plays in the game while they talk. After all, a football game only has about 12 minutes of actual action.
Perhaps you’re the only person who couldn’t figure that out?
Chris Mortensen says Ray Rice was just released by the Ravens.
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Peyton Manning had a shitty QB rating in the playoffs over his first 5-8 appearances, too.