The Bengals Lose To The Ravens But Still Makes The Playoffs

This holiday season has been good to Cincinnati sports teams. The Bengals lost to the Ravens but still made the playoffs. The Bearcats beat Vanderbilt in the Auto Zone Liberty Bowl, and the men's Basketball team beat Pitt Panthers.
The Bengals have been in the playoffs two of the past three years. That's not so bad for a shitty franchise. Now it's time to win a playoff game. And they have a good chance to accomplish that task when they play the Texans.
Did anyone really think the Bengals would make the playoffs with a rookie QB and a first year Offensive Coordinator? I know I didn't. The only man in Cincinnati that did know was Lance McAlister.
I know the national media has been licking Cam Newtons balls all year long and he probably will win the ROY award but that just a damn shame, because Andy "red riffle" Dalton deserves it.

Thanks to my favorite Ben-gals cheerleader @AlysonJordan for the picture and playing The Cheerleder vs The Blogger 2011 NFL picks with me this year.

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Bengals vs. Texans re-cap

This game was a tale of two half's, first half was even and the second half looked like the picture above.

The Bengals couldn't get anything going, through the air or on the ground. I think we should of had our way with one of the worst rush defenses in the NFL, but for some reason it didn't work. The Bengals did not play with a lot of focus, I had a feeling this would be a trap game coming after the big emotional win over Baltimore.

You have to give where credit is due, the Texans offense can pretty much score on anyone in the NFL, and it doesn't help the Bengals when two of  the starting defensive linemen is out of the game with injuries.

Coming into the game the Texans had a record of 2-3, which is a bit misleading, because they are better than what their record shows.

Hopefully this game will not be a letdown for the game next week against the Bears.

Couple of notes, there has to be tight end out there that can catch the damn ball, imagine what this offense could be if we did have vertical threat from our tight end. And how valuable does Brian Leonard look after this game? And I'm not sure who's going to step up and match the production of the injured Antwan Odom, maybe the rookie Michael Johnson. On the bright side Brad St.Louis replacement didn't seem to make any noise, which is a good thing. His name would only come up if he did something wrong.

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Bengals vs. Ravens re-cap

I know game has been diced and sliced since Sunday, but I wanna put my two cents in. All I know is that Zimmer is a beast, and the defense is playing like one too. Week after week, the Bengals are keeping me at the edge of my seat. I wont complain as long as they keep winning games. I could care less how they do it.

I'm not sure where this Bengals team compare to other teams from the past, but I do know they play hearts out for 60 minutes and at this point thats all anyone can ask from them. Even though the offense looks like it can score at will if the game is on the line, but I hope that's not the case down the road. I hope we can score early and often, so we can take some pressure of the defense. I'm not even going to touch on Brad St.Louis situation, if he cant do the one job he has been doing for the last 7 or so years then its time for a replacement.

I think its safe to say that we finally have a defense that will hit you, we have a QB that's back on his game and we got a running back thats a bruiser and we got two good receivers. I saw bring on the Texans.

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