I have no issue with media picking against us, what really annoys me is the complete lack of knowledge about our team. Hence why their predictions are always so off base. For example, everyone knows that when Pete doesn’t know an offense or has very little film on someone, he plays base defense. He’ll give you the yards and clamp down in the red zone. We’ve beaten plenty of teams who throw for 400 yards plus.
Anyone who watched the game knows we came out with a vanilla game plan. We could have played Ansah, but chose to keep him inactive. Yet our D-line still wreaked havoc. I don’t care how bad the Bengals O-line supposedly is, Clowney looked special. The blunders we had against the Bengals, like Thompson giving up that TD, were way more flukey than the Steelers getting beat down.
Also, I bet the Bengals finish at least 7-9, and will lose some close games. I suspect the Bengals are going to win against the 49ers this weekend. As they’re going to be a tough out for most teams. Zac Taylor is going to do for Dalton what McVay did for Goff. They’re going to put up 300 yards against a lot of teams. Ross is going to break out this year. But much like the Seahawks, the national media doesn’t pay attention to the Bengals. So they’re going to come with the same low IQ analysis until they get proven wrong again.