Well, with just two weeks to go maybe our boys are perfectly positioned for the season.  After last night's debacle, I can't imagine even the most optimistic of us have any grand expectations for this squad. 

The list of issues this team needs to address in the next 14 days is lengthy.  I think it would be fair to say that cohesion on both sides of the ball would be a good place to start.  It doesn't look like 11 guys working as one on the field, it looks like a chinese fire drill. 

Perhaps Palmer's bloodied (broken?) nose will be the motivational poster this team needs to focus on playing together, and playing hard.  I mentioned last week that it seemed to me this team doesn't play with much urgency or energy, and now I see B. Williams quoted on Bengals.com saying that the practices have lacked that enthusiasm, and it's carrying over to the games.

Getting some guys healthy would be nice, too, which brings me to another point.  For all the raving about our strength and conditioning program, we sure seem to have a lot of guys out with muscle pulls/tears.  Something in that program is clearly not working if we continue to see this many breakdowns.

Maybe we're set up perfectly, like 2005.  We look injured, and beat down before we've even kicked off.  Maybe teams will overlook us, and we can sneak up on some people.  Maybe last night will provide the wake up call this team appears to so desperately need.  Maybe all the things they've been saying for years they need to fix will be fixed in the next two weeks.  Maybe we've been hoping for all of this for years. 

I for one officially have no expectations for this team now.  I just can't believe based on what we've seen so far that this team is heading for anything but a long season.  I hope I'm wrong, and I'll root for them as hard as I ever have, this is my team, always has been and always will be.  But I'm not blind, or dumb, and right now we look like one of the worst teams in the league.