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Cedric the Entertainer said 11/04, 06:07 PM
In your throwdown you have the Bengals missing the playoffs. Understandable they still don't get respect.

But the reason you give is that they have a hard second half. So you can take this either way.
First is the Bengals will make the playoffs.
Second is that they do not have a hard stretch run.

The Bengals get Baltimore this week at home. The Bengals are coming off a bye and just slaughtered the Bears.

They are currently ahead of the Ravens in terms of record.

The Bengals also have the easiest schedule down the stretch out of the AFC North when looking at the opponents winning %.

The Bengals play:
vs Baltimore
at Pitt
at Oakland
vs Cleavland
vs Detroit
at Minnesota
at San Diego
vs Kansas City
at New York Jets

Realistically I only see Cincinnati losing at most 4 games. More likely around 2-3 though. I don't see Baltimore beating them at home giving the Bengals the season sweep and the tie breaker if needed. The other two games that scare me are Minnesota and Pittsburgh. The Bengals have already beaten Pitt. Minnesota comes from the NFC and the Bengals have had GREAT success against the NFC in years past.

More to come. Take either one or both.

Cedric the Entertainer said 11/05, 05:33 PM
I'm sorry I thought the Bengals had 5 WINS and 2 losses. Not 3 wins 2 losses and 2 escapes. I didn't know escapes were counted as a stat in records.

I guess your learn something new every day.

But to say the escaped against the Ravens is **** stupid. Cedric Benson had over 100 yards rushing for the first time in 40 games. They wore them down on offense and the defense stepped up and held down Flacco and co. The Bengals beat the Ravens they didn't escape. You want to bring up the penalties? Well they were legit calls. The play was wayyyyyyy over when Lewis hit him. His own damn fault.

The Bengals beat the Ravens on the road and they will do so again coming off of the bye. The Ravens offense doesn't at all scare Cincy and the Bengals offense is coming off playing their best football of the year. Same could possibly be said for the defense.

For space concerns i'll give you Vikings and Pitt for now.




But the Jets feature a rookie QB who is prone to turn the ball over. The Bengals will take complete advantage of that.

The Chargers lack a running game and Carson will pick them apart when he has the ball.

At worst 6-3 second half.

Out of room.

Cedric the Entertainer said 11/06, 11:35 PM
This isn't about me being a homer.

It's about you being a idiot.

The Ravens play Pittsburgh twice, the Colts, the Packers, and the Bears. Five games that can go either way.

Not real good for a team trailing already in the division.

The Bengals have the Ravens at home. True this game can go either way but the Bengals are looking real good and are coming off a bye week and will be healthy.

The Ravens second half schedule is very very hard compared to Cincy's. It's like you didn't even look at the schedules before you made that idiotic statement. And if you did you sure don't know a lot about football.