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  1. Seeing Denver up there is less than surprising with how dominant their defense has been at times, but Jacksonville surprises the heck out of me.

  2. It’s nice to focus on “we would have won if”, but you learn from “we lost because”

  3. 8-2 bengals, this is the reason coaching is so important. Not saying the bengals should be 8-2 but Zac Taylor doesn’t have any idea how to coach and that’s why we’re not 8-2

  4. I just do not care in the slightest about shit like this. A loss is a loss. No hypotheticals, no coping bullshit. We did not play good enough to win. Being close to a win is nothing to be proud of when it comes to standings. Period.

  5. The thing is… a decent chunk of one score games for good teams involve being up 2 scores, milking the clock, giving up a score in prevent defense, and game over up one score. A lot of one score games for bad teams are the opposite. Treating one score games as equal for all teams is the main flaw when looking at this metric. Personally, I think we’re somewhere in the middle. We constantly have games where we put ourselves in a situation where one call/play going our way can decide the outcome. That is how a .500 type team plays. I think we’ve been a little unlucky sitting at 4-6, but if we were truly great, we wouldn’t be sweating a single penalty/play deciding games at the high frequency that we’re seeing

  6. And how often are these 1 possession games even clean wins without suspicious officiating. Its something every week, they just love to stir up controversy.

  7. This is nothing but cope. Bad teams find a way to lose and good teams find a way to win.

    That’s it.

  8. This is the saddest post I’ve ever seen on a sports subreddit….sums up the franchise Cincinnati has

  9. Unfortunately Mike Brown will see this as evidence that we’re close rather than coaching pissing away a promising season. 

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