Seems like the AFCN will have to win at least 11 games to win the division. In other words, who has the best change to make the playoffs this year?

They might lack a QB but anything has to be better than Gus Frerotte, living in Minnesota and not really being a Viking fan but having watched the games here, Gus was a sitting duck in the pocket, he was too slow. That being said, they won 10 games last year with Gus and TJack as the QB. You don’t need a superstar QB to win in this league as long as you got a good running game and a defense that can stop the run. The Vikings have both and are only losing one starter on defense ( Darren Sharper ) Whether it’s Sage or TJack as QB, all they have to do is limit mistakes and play within themselves, they’ll do just fine. Especially of they end up getting T.J. Houshmandzadeh

Just trying to figure out why Houshmanzadeh would want to go to Seattle. I mean, sure there’s the west coast thing, but that’s the same thing as saying that I’m close to home (Cincinnati) while working in Tennessee (the distance between “home” and “work” is what I’m driving at). Eh, maybe I’m wrong. I don’t know. Trying to come up with a reason — and it’s why I conclude most money.

My psychologist Mike Brown always suggested that I should use patience. Hummm… :-)

but then again I look at a guy like Dawkins who takes a 5 years deal with the Broncos, the guy is 35 and obviously wont last the entire term of the contract but a portion of that deal will be owed to him. I think its 3 years deals in Minny & Seattle and possibly a 5 year deal to stay in Cinnci and him kind of being the emotional leader on Offense (him and Carson) i think he might be weighing his options to stay. If he’s waited this long what’s going to change about the Minny offer that he hasn’t accepted already. I think its a statement that he’s going to re-sing but we will see tommorow

Hasselbeck may be chronically bad-backed and isn’t all that great when he’s healthy. He’s only better than Tim Hasselbeck in that he doesn’t have to wake up next to that shrew from the View. T.J. would make one receiver on the roster and still no running game. Holmgren is gone and it remains to be seen whether his replacement can coach. I won’t put them in our league, in terms of misery and futility, but they earned that 4-12, they’re drafting two picks ahead of us, and they couldn’t hold a candle to Minnesota even if Frerotte were gonna be the starter there.

Moving along. Here’s something interesting. Seems the Giants managed to sign Chris Canty, Rocky Bernard, and Michael Boley in the first couple days of free agency. Each one of those guys would have been an asset to the Bengals. You mean to tell me we couldn’t get one of the three, couldn’t even get mentioned as being in the mix for one of them, couldn’t be stirred from our daily masturbation time in the money room of our palatial doublewide to notice there were players to be had? Nero to Ned, Mike both fiddles to flames he started and has a purty mouth.

Sure I get your point that it seems Cincy fans might see the Seahawks as a bad team. I wouldn’t put them on the same pedastal as the Lions, but you finished with the same record as the Browns and you played in a lousy division. Then again, the Bengals has unlucky injury situation and we didn’t play the whole season with our All-Pro QB and still finished with a better record. The only thing the Seahawks win out on is that TJ would be the number 1 reciever there.

Just becuase they dumbed up and franchise-tagged Andrews last season doesn’t make him a world-beater this season any more than it did for Justin “$4.3M per sack” Smith! In fact, that’s the obvious comparison to Andrews on the other side of the ball: Justin Smith! Just show up, contribute, make sure the coaches all love your work ethic…but don’t do anything to make your TEAM any better or anything…jeez!

Jeeze I actually thought losing him bolstered our team