Who ends their playoff drought first? (1 Viewer)

[BobbyLayne]

Cincinnati or Detroit?

 

[FUBAR]

Lions beat cowboys

colts over Bengals without their best player.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Last playoff win:

CIN 1990

DET 1991

 

[Ghost Rider]

I don't think either wins today, but no A.J. Green plus Andy Dalton makes me think the Lions are more likely to win today.

 

[bostonfred]

I actually like the Bengals today. They have a deep enough secondary to cover Hilton without leaving other guys wide open, and the Colts don't have enough of a running game to keep them honest. The Bengals o line is mauling teams right now and the Colts don't have the size up front to slow them down. And if they get that running game going, Dalton should have enough room to work without forcing passes. I'm not even concerned about home field because the Bengals aren't going to be changing a lot of passing plays at the line of scrimmage.

If the Colts can get out to an early lead they can definitely win, but the Bengals have beaten them fairly consistently recently and I expect them to win again today.

 

[jurb26]

Bengals win today so no matter what they are first... They play early game.

Colts are just not that good. Won't stop the run today. Bengals just need to limit Dalton and they win.

 

[BobbyLayne]

FTR the longest playoff losing streaks:

KC 8

CIN 7

DET 6

 

[bostonfred]

If the Colts can keep running like this the Bengals are hosed.

 

[IHEARTFF]

Neither

 

[BassNBrew]

Neither

You expecting both to be contracted out of the league some time soon?

 

[IHEARTFF]

Neither

You expecting both to be contracted out of the league some time soon?

No

 

[BassNBrew]

Neither

You expecting both to be contracted out of the league some time soon?

No

One of them will eventually win a playoff game..

 

[Khy]

Neither wins today, but I'd say the Bengals have a better shot than the Lions. The Lions defense is highly overrated right now. People thinking that they're simply going to come in and shut down Dallas is silly. Detroit faced 1 top 10 rushing team all season which was the Jets in week 2. Defensively they also only had 350 rushing attempts against them all season, which ranked 31st in the NFL, second only to Denver's 349 attempts. Not saying they're a bad defense. I'm just saying they faced some pretty week offenses all season.

Week 1 - NY Giants - 10th in total yards - 13th in points
Week 2 - Carolina - 16th in total yards - 19th in points
Week 3 - Green Bay - 6th in total yards - 1st in points
Week 4 - NY Jets - 22nd in total yards - 28th in points
Week 5 - Buffalo - 26th in total yards - 18th in points
Week 6 - Minnesota - 27th in total yards - 20th in points
Week 7 - New Orleans - 1st in total yards - 9th in points
Week 8 - Atlanta - 8th in total yards - 12th in points
Week 10 - Miami - 14th in total yards - 11th in points
Week 11 - Arizona - 24th in total yards - 24th in points
Week 12 - New England - 11th in total yards - 4th in points
Week 13 - Chicago - 21st in total yards - 23rd in points
Week 14 - Tampa Bay - 30th in total yards - 29th in points
Week 15 - Minnesota - 27th in total yards - 20th in points
Week 16 - Chicago - 21st in total yards - 23rd in points
Week 17 - Green Bay - 6th in total yards - 1st in points

Fact is they played 4 Top 10 offenses all season and 4 Top 10 scoring offenses all season. And honestly, those numbers are even lopsided. The Giants finished the season 10th in yards, but they weren't even 1/2 the offense in Week 1 that they were in Week 17. Most of their production was post OBJ breakout. Same goes for Carolina, whose ranked 7th overall in rushing but was garbage till about Week 7. Arizona? Yeah they played them in week 11... Carson Palmer was done at the point, not that hard to load the box against Drew Stanton. Chicago they played in Week 13 and 16 when the team was just imploding in on itself. And Green Bay was not playing like Green Bay in Week 3.

My point either way is, they had an incredibly favorable season to put together the season they did. I wouldn't be shocked in the Lions let up over 152 yards on the ground, their season high allowance last week to Detroit, today to Murray and the Cowboys.

 

[CalBear]

It's unfortunate that U.S. sports don't work like the European leagues, where teams that consistently suck get demoted. Combine that with revenue-sharing and there's little incentive to not suck.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

It's unfortunate that U.S. sports don't work like the European leagues, where teams that consistently suck get demoted. Combine that with revenue-sharing and there's little incentive to not suck.

Neither of these teams suck.

 

[jon_mx]

Neither

You expecting both to be contracted out of the league some time soon?

No

One of them will eventually win a playoff game..

Except if the don't.

 

[BobbyLayne]

You'd think the "We're in the 63rd Percentile!" chant would have caught on.

 

[CalBear]

It's unfortunate that U.S. sports don't work like the European leagues, where teams that consistently suck get demoted. Combine that with revenue-sharing and there's little incentive to not suck.

Neither of these teams suck.

Of course they suck. Detroit had 10 losing seasons in a row, including 0-16. Cincinatti went 14 years without a winning season. In a European league, they would have been sent down to the scrub divisions until they proved they could win some games, and a winning team would have been brought up. The overall quality of NFL football would have been higher.

 

[QuizGuy66]

I put in a null vote.

It never ends :(

An unanswerable question.

-QG

 

[Riversco]

It's unfortunate that U.S. sports don't work like the European leagues, where teams that consistently suck get demoted. Combine that with revenue-sharing and there's little incentive to not suck.

The NFL puts a premium on protecting rivalries, to the point where the Dallas Cowboys are slotted into the NFC East. A relegation system would be rejected because it would play hell with rivalries.

 

[Insein]

It's unfortunate that U.S. sports don't work like the European leagues, where teams that consistently suck get demoted. Combine that with revenue-sharing and there's little incentive to not suck.

The NFL puts a premium on protecting rivalries, to the point where the Dallas Cowboys are slotted into the NFC East. A relegation system would be rejected because it would play hell with rivalries.

And also, #### Europe.

 

[CalBear]

It's unfortunate that U.S. sports don't work like the European leagues, where teams that consistently suck get demoted. Combine that with revenue-sharing and there's little incentive to not suck.

The NFL puts a premium on protecting rivalries, to the point where the Dallas Cowboys are slotted into the NFC East. A relegation system would be rejected because it would play hell with rivalries.

Who cares? Suddenly SF-Seattle is a rivalry. Does anyone really care about Cleveland-Cincinatti? Things change.

 

[QuizGuy66]

It's unfortunate that U.S. sports don't work like the European leagues, where teams that consistently suck get demoted. Combine that with revenue-sharing and there's little incentive to not suck.

The NFL puts a premium on protecting rivalries, to the point where the Dallas Cowboys are slotted into the NFC East. A relegation system would be rejected because it would play hell with rivalries.

Who cares? Suddenly SF-Seattle is a rivalry. Does anyone really care about Cleveland-Cincinatti? Things change.

Happy 70th Birthday Sam Wyche

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJMa20xXykI

-QG

 

[doowain]

It's unfortunate that U.S. sports don't work like the European leagues, where teams that consistently suck get demoted. Combine that with revenue-sharing and there's little incentive to not suck.

Neither of these teams suck.

Of course they suck. Detroit had 10 losing seasons in a row, including 0-16. Cincinatti went 14 years without a winning season. In a European league, they would have been sent down to the scrub divisions until they proved they could win some games, and a winning team would have been brought up. The overall quality of NFL football would have been higher.

Troll on.

And I really can't take anyone seriously that spells Cincinnati that way. Durrrrr.