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10/16 Thursday Night Football: Pittsburgh Steelers at Cincinnati Bengals (Original Post) milestogo Thursday OP
Hopefully there will be incessant chants of ZAC MUST GO and FIRE KATIE JT45242 Thursday #1
There's no embarrassing Mike Brown. Xavier Breath Thursday #2
I'm in Dayton Ohio FarPoint Thursday #3
Amazing game! Xavier Breath Thursday #4
Bengals beat Steelers 33-31 milestogo Thursday #5
There you go! True Dough Friday #6
How about that Aaron Rodgers... milestogo Friday #7
You know, True Dough Friday #8
I have great admiration for Tee Higgins. Morbius Saturday #9

JT45242

(3,684 posts)
1. Hopefully there will be incessant chants of ZAC MUST GO and FIRE KATIE
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 01:01 PM
Thursday

The Bengals will lose another game because Katie has completely failed a GM (even though that is not technically her title) to ever build a competent starting offensive line and has never had backup who would even be more than non-activated insurance policies for a good team. Her failures, beginning with jettisoning Whitworth and Zeitler to save money and demanding that they draft stiffs like Ogbuewie over the objections of the offensive line coach at the time have directly led to injuries that have ended multiple seasons for Joe Burrow.

Zac Taylor is one of the worst coaches ever whose complete stupidity has been masked by the greatness of his QB and for multiple years by his great defensive co-ordinator Lou Annarumo who was made the scapegoat for Katie's horrific roster construction last year. Even though everyone who has ever seen the Bengals play know that the offensive is atrocious Zac refuses to play 12 or 21 personnel and go with extra protection for his QB because and I quote "We are a 13 offensive. That is what we are going to play because that is our philosophy: -- If you go with a scheme over and over again that doesn't fit your players then you should be fired.

Hopefully, Joe Burrow and the two stud WR will demand trades unless the two idiots in charge are fired.

Hopefully, the fans can embarass the owner Mike Brown to fire nepo-GM and moronic head coach. I won't hold my breath as I know that Mike only worries about making money so as long as betting apps, streaming servies, and TV contracts guarentee a profit, he has no reason to actually try to win.

Xavier Breath

(6,212 posts)
2. There's no embarrassing Mike Brown.
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 05:19 PM
Thursday

He's a sperm-lucky idiot whose daddy left him a license to print money. It's for us great unwashed to worry about the team's play while they keep building generational wealth and forgetting their "worries" while they zoom down the Italian Alps.

Man, don't get be started on those fuckers. I have decades of bile accumulated from their complete fraud and ineptitude.

FarPoint

(14,273 posts)
3. I'm in Dayton Ohio
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 11:12 PM
Thursday

Born/raised in Pittsburgh....yet a Bengals fan..... I have friends at the game tonight.... What a thrill this game is!


Joe Flacco is the MAN! So is team/ Bengals tonight.... but Joe has come to our rescue.

milestogo

(22,034 posts)
5. Bengals beat Steelers 33-31
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 11:31 PM
Thursday

What a great game with two old quarterbacks.

Higgins and Chase are on my fantasy team and they gave me 54.7 points!!

True Dough

(24,806 posts)
6. There you go!
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 05:26 AM
Friday

Something to cheer about.

Unfortunately for me, I have Pittsburgh's defense. They didn't perform well.

milestogo

(22,034 posts)
7. How about that Aaron Rodgers...
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 11:22 AM
Friday



I know, he's a turd. But he's still got a great arm and I love watching him.

True Dough

(24,806 posts)
8. You know,
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 11:29 AM
Friday

he could never throw the pigskin that far if he'd succumbed to the Covid vaccine!!!

Morbius

(747 posts)
9. I have great admiration for Tee Higgins.
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 08:27 PM
Saturday

He had an easy touchdown right in front of him. No one would have jumped on him if he had scored the TD. People would have criticized the coach for calling a pass play with 1:50 to go. He's a receiver. His job is to score touchdowns, right?

Nope. He's Tee Higgins, a professional football player, and his job is to win football games. By selflessly taking a slide, passing up the touchdown, he all but guaranteed his team the win. "Brilliant!" was what Al Michaels called it immediately, and he was right. If you give Aaron Rodgers the ball with 1:45 to play, there's a good chance he makes the game winning drive. Not letting him have the ball was absolutely the best call.

And this was on a night when his teammate, Ja'Marr Chase, had a monster night with 16 receptions. Tee Higgins put the team first anyway. Great job.

And a terrific football game, by the way. The entire fourth quarter was must-see TV.

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