Cincinnati Bengals 2009 schedule released; no primetime games

by Josh Kirkendall on Apr 14, 2009 7:08 PM EDT

Today's events on the big NFL schedule are huge. I mean, epic. NFL Network works the post-dinner hour to announce its regular season schedule. On the front page of ESPN.com, they call it the "NFL schedule release special". Don't get original or anything. So we'll know the opponents, right? No, no, we know that already. We'll know strength of schedule, right? No, no, those figures were known once we learned the opponents -- as if strength of schedule means a damn in April. But this is the NFL, the league that tends to hype their events into an overblown hysteria. What other sport actually has their own network schedule an evening spot to release dates and times of the regular season. That's it, dates and times. Opponents? We know that already. Dates and times. Irony of me making a post on the whole damned thing notwithstanding.

So, for you, my people, here are the Bengals games, opponents, complete with dates and times. As a special gift to you, I'm even including the day of the dates and times.

Week	Date	Day	Opponent	Time	TV
1	9.13	Sunday	Denver Broncos	1:00	CBS
2	9.20	Sunday	@ Green Bay Packers	1:00	Fox
3	9.27	Sunday	Pittsburgh Steelers	1:00	CBS
4	10.4	Sunday	@ Cleveland Browns	1:00	CBS
5	10.11	Sunday	@ Baltimore Ravens	1:00	CBS
6	10.18	Sunday	Houston Texans	1:00	CBS
7	10.25	Sunday	Chicago Bears	1:00	CBS
8			Bye
9	11.8	Sunday	Baltimore Ravens	1:00	CBS
10	11.15	Sunday	@ Pittsburgh Steelers	1:00	CBS
11	11.22	Sunday	@ Oakland Raiders	4:15	CBS
12	11.29	Sunday	Cleveland Browns	1:00	CBS
13	12.6	Sunday	Detroit Lions	1:00	Fox
14	12.13	Sunday	@ Minnesota Vikings	1:00	CBS
15	12.20	Sunday	@ San Diego Chargers	4:05	CBS
16	12.27	Sunday	Kansas City Chiefs	1:00	CBS
17	1.3.10	Sunday	@ New York Jets	1:00	CBS

Anything you notice immediately? Well, no Primetime games. But you kind of saw that coming. And the only starts that are not at 1:00pm, are games on the West Coast (which is 1pm on the West Coast). Cincinnati plays back-to-back division games on the road in week four and five. Our last division game is against Cleveland in week 12. We nine play all six division games in a nine-game stretch -- week three to week 12.

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The Bengals get no prime time games...

yet the Browns get two? What a joke. As for any predictions, the NFL varies so much from year to year I can see the Bengals finishing anywhere from 11-5 to 5-11.

If they don’t beat Denver on week one…..

"Ryan, Things in here don't react too well to bullets." - Marko Ramius

by TarZander on Apr 14, 2009 8:05 PM EDT reply actions

No prime time?

i was just watching the ESPN schedule release show, and they said that the Nov 15th game vs the Steelers is a Thursday game. So it has to be prime time right? i mean we cant play at 1pm on a thursday. im confused

by Joe Goodberry on Apr 14, 2009 8:20 PM EDT reply actions

Nfl.com has it 1:00pm sunday on the 15th

by ToledoRocket on Apr 14, 2009 8:22 PM EDT up reply actions

RE:

Bengals.com says 1pm on Sunday too.

Blogger at CincyJungle.com -- SB Nation Cincinnati Bengals blog.

by Josh Kirkendall on Apr 14, 2009 9:47 PM EDT up reply actions

NOV. 15th is on a Sunday

by bengalfanky on Apr 15, 2009 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions

Prime time?

It is no surprise that the Bengals did not get a prime time game. It sort of takes the pressure off the team. As an optimistic fan, this looks like a reasonable schedule. The hardest games are of course the division opponents. As a pessimistic fan, they will find a way to screw this up.

by ToledoRocket on Apr 14, 2009 8:21 PM EDT reply actions

9-7

by kirby28 on Apr 15, 2009 7:18 AM EDT reply actions

the Bengals are still and 9-7 to 7-9 team talent wise. It will be a matter of how healthy they stay and if they can gel into a team with a winning attitude. If that things go right, they could easily go 11-5, and if they go wrong, it will be like last year.

The schedule doesn’t look to have any killer stretches though

by R.F. Mehl on Apr 15, 2009 8:04 AM EDT up reply actions

let's see...

Denver sucks.
Green Bay is average at best.
Pittsburgh is Pittsburgh- i.e, they suck but inevitably get lucky as recompense for fans having to live in that awful city.
Cleveland sucks hard.
Baltimore was average, lost Ryan, Scott, Jason Brown, Lewis got another year older.
Houston, with a bookend for Mario Williams, will be formidable.
Chicago essentially sucks- and Mr. Tank would like to meet Mr. Cutler.
Pittsburgh is still Walter Mitty from a shithole.
Ray Lewis is almost another whole month older than the last time we checked- and Rex Ryan is still gone.
Oakland? Russell can throw the ball 70 yards from his knees but not much else.
Cleveland is bracing for a Lake Erie tsunami because they suck so hard.
Detroit? Next.
Minnesota is QB’ed by either Tavaris Jackson or Sage Rosenfels and, thus, wastes AP’s career as we’ve been wasting Carson’s.
San Diego is schizophrenic. Tomlinson? Merriman?
KC starts a $14,000,000 backup without last year’s Belichick accompaniment.
NYJ have a new QB and a new coach who’s highly skilled at destroying offenses.

11-5, with losses to Minn, NYJ, Houston, and one apiece to Pitt and Baltimore.

by IgnatiusJReilly on Apr 15, 2009 9:45 AM EDT reply actions