I’d settle for Shazier walking into a room at this point. It’s a real possibility that it might not happen.
I still care about the result, but I hope for health all around. This is a dirty, nasty, AFCN game so there’s a certain expectation of nasty hits on both sides (and frankly, Shazier shouldn’t have led with his helmet ((again)). Here’s to hoping to health on both sides.
Oof, dirty block by Ju-Ju.
That was a shame.
Oof, dirty retaliation by the bengals against Brown.
That was a shame.
Again, a game that nobody really won. These two teams really need to stop doing this. It’s not even fun to watch.
This slots in just behind the infamous playoff game as the worst game I’ve ever seen, and for much the same reasons.
What a horrible, horrible game. Very disappointed in JuJu. Not so much the hit, though it clearly warranted a penalty, but especially the taunting. Ben after the game: “AFC north football”. Bullshit. It is only when you let it be. This game was like WWI complete with Xmas armistice where both teams just stopped tackling and started playing some sort of flag football, only to resume pointless carnage right after.
So we beat Cincinnati, a team needing a new coach, a new quarterback, and, given the stadium’s exodus because drizzle, a new city to play in. A meaningless victory costing us Shazier (and costing him God knows what, let’s hope for the best), some hard hits on Ben which, at his age, have to affect him in the next weeks, and some of the shine off of the JuJu fairy tale.
Also, a certain prolific poster in this thread is finally going to be right, once, in that Burfect was finally having an, especially for him, clean game, being an impressive athlete, and this one time actually a victim to a bullshit play. I was very glad to hear that he was claiming to be ok, and showing signs that he in fact was, even before game end. I still hope he cuts off a vindictive IRS auditor in traffic.
There is only one game, hopefully played twice, and that is against New England.
If this game were the only football game I ever watched I’d hate football.
Dirty hits, cheap shots, a few awesome athletic plays being called back due to penalties. It’s like nobody was allowed to do anything good, and few even tried. I didn’t even finish watching because it was embarrassing.
If you mean me, then screw you. “Right for once”? Get the fuck outta here. Your team has been like this since time immemorial, you just don’t see it until it’s reciprocated.
The Bengals and Steelers deserve each other. They’re like the meth head couple that live on Lot Z in the trailer park. Nobody likes to hang out with them, nobody wants to deal with them, they’re absolutely horrible to each other, and occasionally one of them will step out to have an affair with the Ravens in Lot Y. The police have given up trying to stop these horrible people from illegally beating the shit out of each other and just kinda hope they just keep it between themselves and within the walls of their beat up double wide.
And, yet, they’ll both swear up and down it’s the other ones fault.
Hopefully? You doubt the Stillers will win their first-round game? OK, so do I.
If there’s a second Pats game for you, it will be in Foxboro. So there’s that.
Steelers should be ashamed of themselves. What a travesty of a game.
Has any more come out about the Mixon concussion? With the nasty Ju-Ju blindside block, Iloka’s headshot on Brown, and Shazier’s injury being the focus, it seems like not much has been said about Mixon. From what I remember of watching it live, it seem like a clean play with no contact to the head. Was there something untoward that I missed?
The dirty plays were beyond disappointing and approaching disturbing. Ben’s postgame interview totally sucked but not as bad as Bengal’s HC Marvin Lewis’s defensive willful confusion.
“What play? I don’t know. Be more specific. You talking to me? I don’t know what you’re asking. Huh?”
Reports this afternoon are suggesting Shazier isn’t as badly injured as first feared so that’s some great news.
How about that wacky Bell run up the sideline?
From what I remember it was a clean hit, just an accident that he got hurt. His head got banged up between the shoulders of two defenders during the tackle which seemed to be the cause of the injury. It’s a departure from the rest of the game but that injury’s looked totally unintended and it was just bad luck.
I want to apologize for my earlier comment, specifically to isosleepy. Emotional game, I got way to invested in it and got carried away.
I hate my Bengals, and also Marvin Lewis. The way the Bengals give away leads in the second halves of games is an embarrassment. Marvin is Marty Schottenheimer reincarnated, his version of second-half Martyball is so ridiculously conservative.
Dalton wasn’t helped by crucial drops by Lafell and AJ Green, and that late holding call on Giovanni Bernard was just ridiculous. The Bengals had almost 200 yards in penalties! Is that close to being a record? Jesus.
I wonder why Schuster wasn’t ejected. He committed two tossable personal fouls on the same play, for the hit and for taunting. Why didn’t he get ejected?
Anyway, I hope everyone injured recovers. The Bengals are toast now, they had to win that game. Even if they win out (which they won’t, because Marvin Lewis has lost his team and is in full on defensive damage control mode), there’s going to be too many teams ahead of them to make the cut, even at 9-7.
I hope we hire Brian Kelly in the offseason.
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The record is 212 yards by Tennessee back in 1999.
Damn. It’s so Bengals that they couldn’t even muster enough bullshit to claim that dubious record.
I’m still furious about the “hold” on Giovanni Bernard that negated an AJ Green touchdown. With all the other shit going on in that game, that call was incredibly ticky-tack, especially in light of the fact that Bernard is such a little guy compared to TJ Watt. That call to me reinforces my tinfoil hat NFL conspiracy against the Bengals (because of Burfict) or any team that dares to challenge the teams that sell the most merchandise.
I am starting to hate the NFL.
Join the club. 
Between shit like this, the whole denial about CTE, players who get away with domestic and/or sexual assault, fuck it.
So I am guessing that my decision to hire Ray Rice to babysit my teenaged daughter was a bad idea?
I’m kidding, but not. The Rice case was where the NFL really started to lose me. The way they mishandled that, along with many of their other extra-legal “investigations” was one thing, and then the denial of concussions for decades, then the denial of medical expenses for former players that were clearly suffering, was the final straw.
I love my adopted team, the Bengals. I grew up a Redskins fan in the DC area and enjoyed their moments of success in the mid to late 1980’s and early 1990’s…then I joined the Army and afterwards landed here in Cincinnati…just in time for the worst team in the history of the NFL. But as they say, you’re a fan, you can’t help it.
This recent escalation between these two teams is just another marker on the highway to the doom of the NFL. I think the hatred between the two fanbases and the players is largely due to the Bengals having recent success (compartively speaking) against the Stealers when we were the little red headed stepchild, the doormat, from 1991 until about 2004. I believe this all started with the Carson Palmer injury in 2005 and escalated from there to what we have now, which is ugly, headhunting football from the 1960’s that both teams are guilty of.
After last night, I am in serious need of re-evaluating my sports priorities. I grew up with the NFL and have always loved football…but now I’m starting to second guess that fanship. And it isn’t because my team lost, although that sucks, because once again, the Bengals found a unique way to lose a game they should have won. We’re the Lions of the AFC.
The current tensions have nothing to do with Cinci’s “recent success” against Pittsburgh. Rather, in recent years we have repeatedly had our stars injured against Cincinnati, generally instigated by Burfickt. Take his shenanigans out of the equation and playing the Bengals would be like playing any other AFC also-ran.