If we lose ugly to the bills this week, I would lay even money the pats still win the division.
.Last year we were in the driver seat to go to the playoffs under Philbin and ended up driving into the ditch
The idea of losing momentum after a win at home when then going on the road is legit. I feel better with guys like Jarvis Landry and Knowshon Moreno in the offensive huddle (Albert and James have been real pros too) and Finnegan and Delmas added to the D. One thing to give Hickey immense credit for, he realized that this team lacked intensity and natural leaders. I forget how many team captains we drafted, but I'm hoping that emphasis will show in situations like this.
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you mean when TANNY drove us into the ditch. right?
funny how everyone talks about how we were going to the playoffs at one point [no mention of the great job the coach did getting us even considered for it], then when tanny couldnt buy a td pass in the two final games, it is PHILBIN who is to blame!!
gonna be a sight to behold on this board if we lose to buffalo this weekend. philbin will be even MORE vilified and hickey and lazor and benton will be bums who have no place in the nfl.
its just amazing. if ANYONE did a good job last year it was philbin!! coaching big babies who cant clean up after themselves and a major scandal brewing behind the scenes. AND was handed a draft that produced no one making any significant plays or even being on the field in most cases. plus having one of the nfl's worst "talent" pools.
then it was all derailed by 2 horrific back to back qb performances from being in the playoffs. THAT is a great coaching job, not a guy who "drove the team into a ditch".
way, way, WAY off base with that KTOWN.
Yeah that week 17 game was effectively a playoff atmosphere for me. When the Bengals go one and done every season who do we look at as the culprit from our point of view? Andy Dalton right? Pretty much everybody blames Andy Dalton for playing like **** in big games, and they are right. Aside from Tannehill's horrific stats just watch the game and you see terrible QB play. Sliding a yard short of the first. Missing a wide open Wallace (AGAIN!!!) for a walk in TD. Picks galore. Statistically it was almost as bad as his first game as a pro and he sure as **** didn't pass the eye test either.
As for Philbin getting to 10 wins would have been one of the greatest coaching performances maybe of this century with everything considered. And it was right there for the taking with two more good performances from the QB. Even 9 wins and playoffs would have still been excellent, and that almost certainly would have happened If Tannehill just played to his crapola 80 passer rating average in both games. So I ask, where is the buffer between excellent and terrible?
I think the importance of the QB position is still underrated if anything. When the QB misses a wide open receiver for the umpteenth time or slides a yard short of the first down week 17 with everything on the line those types of things have the opposite effect on the team compared to whatever energy Moreno was able to provide for the team.
Last year, when we went to Buffalo after beating the Pats, Tannehill was 10 of 27 for 82 yards. He was sacked 7 times, hit 3 times, and hurried another 16 times. Think about that. He dropped back 27 times, and was pressured on 26 of them. Buff also ran 51 times for 203 yards.
IF this "Twilight Zone" type of a game happens again, we are dead. Anyone, in their wildest drams think it will? Reality will come back into play, and we win by 7 or more. JMO