If they hadn't pulled their starters last week (and tried for a perfect season) and won, we'd have already clinched.
Well, next week it can happen to 3 teams. Bengals, Eagles, & Cardinals can all end up losing the last regular season game and Wild-Card game to the same team. I was just wondering if it has happened previously...
I still have hope the Bengals can turn this around (call me naive). I just don't want this year, the year that the Texans finally go above .500, to be another one of those "wait-till-next-year" years. I've had enough of those.
The Bengals are rolling over, and I bet it costs them next week. I will be cheering against all the teams that have "thrown" games. And, yes, the NFL needs to create a rule/penalty for this. Every game should be all out competitive. The Colts ruined the hope of a perfect season for their fans and New Orleans is limping into the playoffs as the first seed. Ridiculous.
Sorry to tell you mate, but it's looking that way. Honestly, the Texans should have taken care of business many times this year and they didn't. They are who we thought they were, a non-playoff team. And I don't say that with joy, just stating a fact. Perhaps, if you wait 'til next year...
Ask New England fans how they felt about the Patriots going "all out" today... there's a good chance they lose to baltimore without Welker.
bungholes lose to jets next week 24-0. i wish a slow death to the bengals and every resident of the QUEEN city.
That's my take, I'm not mad at anybody but my home team... I'm not mad at Cinci...I'm not mad at Indi...we shouldn't be in the position of having to watch and hope somebody else loses...we did this to oursselves, and hopefully the guys (team) watching at home can feel the sting of what it's like to have to sit and watch while they can't affect their destiny and come back next year and change some things...otherwise...we may be in for a repeat
There's absolutely no way the Bengals beat the Jets next week, or any week if they can't stop the run...
Well part of me is thinking this is complete bulls*** as the Colts the week before and the Bengals now are just handing NY the game, and Houston has had to earn it. But then part of me is thinking if the Texans had taken care of business in all those games they choked away, if they had come out prepared for the first game, they wouldn't need help.
A rule? Come on now man. The Pats took Brady out against a game tying drive. No one here was complaining.
Regardless, its likely a "wait-till-next-year" year, unless you honestly think this team can win the Super Bowl as is (which they can't). Backing into the playoffs and losing in the first or second round isn't necessarily gonna make me more or less excited for next year, unless they improve drastically in the off-season at several key areas. This was a 9-7 team, a team with flaws, but a talented team nonetheless. They finished exactly where they should have this year... and making vs. not making the playoffs doesn't really change that.
