Cincy Jungle
This was a rough one to watch.
The Super Bowl is the ultimate game of the ultimate sport in this country, but the game played this past Sunday against the Chiefs and Eagles was one of the worst in recent memory.
Not the ending result — I liked that — I just mean it wasn’t a good game.
You know, because the Chiefs got DESTROYED.
They were outclassed from the first snap to the last. The Eagles’ defensive front just absolutely ate the Chiefs’ offensive line up and made Patrick Mahomes look like a nervous rookie throughout the first half. The Chiefs did eventually manage to score 22 points, but the game was over long before they ever got on the board. Everything good the Chiefs offense did was garbage time.
If the Super Bowl showed us one thing, it’s that a Superstar quarterback can’t do it alone, and the defense has to show up. The Cincinnati Bengals had to learn that lesson the hard way in 2024, finishing with a 9-8 record with Joe Burrow’s MVP-caliber season and Ja’Marr Chase’s Triple Crown.
Hopefully, they go into the 2025 season with a clear direction and right the ship.
Which brings us to this, posted by the team on Twitter.
Did you watch it? Notice around the 1:20 mark they said “We’ll hit the off season with all we’ve got.”
Neat.
What does that mean? Is it:
“We’ll do EVERYTHING possible to get the Bengals to the Super Bowl in 2025?”
Or
“We’ll spend more because the salary cap is going up, but we’re not going to get out of our comfort zone to keep everyone around?”
The 2024 season was a collapse of epic proportions and will likely go down as a crazy statistical outlier in the record books. How many teams have a quarterback who finishes the season with over 4,900 passing yards and 43 touchdowns to only nine interceptions, a wide receiver who wins the Triple Crown, and a defensive end who led the league in sacks all at once?
I don’t know if it’s ever happened before, but I’m sure if it has, that team at least went to the playoffs. If it ever happens again, I’m sure that team will at least go to the playoffs. The Bengals missing out on the postseason after the performances some individual players put up is nothing short of a tragedy.
Now they have to extend Chase, which I’m 100 percent positive they will do. They have to extend Trey Hendrickson, who wants an extension or a trade. I’m about 50 percent sure they’ll get that done. They also need to find a way to keep Tee Higgins in Cincinnati, and I’m about 50 percent on that one, too.
I hope I’m wrong. If they restructure Burrow’s deal a little to free up some cash, they have enough to pay all three and then go get a few good players too. If that’s what “we’ll hit it with all we’ve...
