Deja Vu All over again

Sometimes, we all have to have a little slice of humble pie and in my own personal effort to do this, I am going to revisit some predictions that I made in June for the first four weeks of the year.  Let's just say that things never happen the way that you expect them to.

Way back in June I asked

Are we going to turn some heads this year?

To that I have to yes.  If nothing else, the Bengals are definitely turning some heads.

Games 1-4

vs. Denver - Kyle Orton is overrated if you call him mediocre, the Broncos defense was more pourous than Niagra Falls last year and they have a completely new offensive system.  I give the Bengals a 60% chance of winning here.

I got one thing right, Kyle Orton is mediocre and might be overrated.  That said, who expected the Broncos to have the #1 defense in the league through four games and to be undefeated?  It turned out that there was about a 40% chance of a tipped pass going all the way for a game winning last second score.  Who knew?

@ Green Bay - Has anybody else noticed how huge Aaron Rodgers eyes are?  Will you join me in calling him "Ole Bug-Eyed Rodgers?"  GB is definitely underrated, but so are the Bengals.  I'd give the Bengals a 40% chance of winning this game.

Ok, Rogers still has big eyes (I think he's looking at me right now), and I still think the Packers are a legit team.  What I didn't count on is a big fella named Antwan Odom who apparently was eating his Wheaties that morning.  In my opinion, this was probably the best all around game that the Bengals have played this year.

vs. Pittsburg - Super Bowl Champs, scary a@# defense and Troy Bighair don't spell good things.  I'll give the Bengals 20% because they'll be at home.

Did anybody watch the Steelers Chargers game?  The Steelers looked like Champs, (like how they looked through 3 quarters against us).  I think that all this proves is that we're still pretty damn good for beating a team like that.  I don't care how it happened and humble pie never tasted so good.

@ Cleveland - Hmmm.   QB controversy +  awful defense + butterfinger receivers = Bengals win.  I'll go 75% for Cincy.

I might take some flak for saying this, but Cleveland has a decent offense with Derek Anderson at the helm.  He consistently made plays to his receivers named Mohamed Massaquoi (I'll leave the 'blame game' up to you guys).  Also, I don't know if I would have predicted two botched long snaps.  I don't think we were ready and it wasn't pretty, but we won.

I could realisticly see the Bengals winning two of these games.  Four games through the season, we are (2-2).

Yeah, it's ugly and I agree with a lot of you, but damn it feels good to be on top doesn't it?  These are the kind of Bengals that I think we've all been waiting for.  We've got fight, we've got heart, we've got some pride back in Cincy.  I don't know if anybody could have predicted that.