Your Bengals/Chiefs AFC Championship Game Open Thread

A sobering thought just occurred to me-there’s only three games left this season. Damn. Well, at least I’ve got the Senators and Sillycuse to watch. Okay, do me a favor and gouge my eyes out. If it was good enough for Zedekiah then by gum, it’s good enough for me!

To The Game!

Bengals/Chiefs:

-Much has been made of the bananas shootout game back in week 17 and how we might see a repeat of that. Can I throw a bit of cold water on that?

-Well, for one thing, Cincy has been averaging all of 20 points per game during their last three while K.C. has been on fire, averaging 35 in their last 5.

-Sure, Evan McPherson has been rightfully given his props for his swagger and coolness under pressure but settling for field goals in this game is going to get the Bengals a blowout loss.

-Is it Tee Time? A fella (Montgomery might be his name?) on a Rotowire podcast noted something that I found interesting. Wr Chase, in his first game with a few teams went gangbusters. Versus Pittsburgh he had 65 yards and 2 TD’s-after they made adjustments for the second game he was shut down and it was Higgins that had 114 and a TD. And it was the same with the Ravens-201 yards and 2 TD’s the first time around but it was Higgins that had 194 and 2 TD’s in the return tilt. No doubt Spagnoulo will tweak things regarding coverages on Chase and perhaps that opens the door for Tee.

-Is Burrow’s willingness to take a sack part of his overall strategy of protecting the ball? He’s had only one interception in his last seven games and that was off the hands of Perine last week.

-Yes, there were 9 sacks taken last week but previous to that in the 4 games prior he was getting dumped 2.4 times a game. As far as (very) recent history is concerned, the Titans game may have been an outlier.

-Can you outscore the Chiefs at home? The Chargers and Bills accomplished the feat but that was way back in week’s 3 and 5. Mahomes is 8:1 with a 9.4 YPA and a 76% completion rate in the playoffs so far.

-Another sobering thought but this time for Cincy fans-they’ve scored but one TD in their last 18 drives.

Enjoy what’s on offer.

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King Hippo

Somehow, on the Everton forums, “Dawson Creek” came up. Which reminded me of my long-forgotten observation – they could have just named that show “Teenagers Fucking.” I’d like to hear Jim Nantz say “stay tuned after the game for a new Teenagers Fucking.”

Horatio Cornblower

I believe they could do that now with ‘Euphoria’

King Hippo

true dat

Redshirt

Now if the defense would be so inclined to actually do something…

Doktor Zymm

THIS BENGALS DEFENSE I CALL THEM CONGRESS BECAUSE THEY GET THE SAME AMOUNT DONE

Senor Weaselo

Meanwhile Los Ice Giants are getting outscored 2-1 by the Kraken, which is why it’s now 2-2.

Senor Weaselo

WAIT K’ANDRE THANK YOU JEEBUS.

Horatio Cornblower

“Joey, you ever hang around the gymnasium?”

Spur

Gee no PI on KC

Old School Zero

BLEERGH slumbers

King Hippo

yeah, the beefy lady might as well warm up them vocals

Gumbygirl

That was utter bullshit. There was all kinds of contact.

Doktor Zymm

Oh….oh dear, that’s precious

Doktor Zymm

Even better when you consider the large German-American population in Ohio

herodotus450

CB1, ancient Chinese History major: “Actually, the Great Wall’s major asset was the personnel manning it, the wall itself was relatively useless where it was unguarded.”
CB2, ancient Roman History major: “No no, Hadrian’s Wall is a bad name, by the time it was completed it was uneccesary and was a drain on the empire’s resources.”
Nickel back, modern German History major: “Well you see, the Berlin Wall only served to highlight the bleakness of East vs. West Berlin, and ultimately became a rallying cry for unification, as well as being easily circumvented by corrupt border guards.”
“Ok, Maginot Line it is.”

Horatio Cornblower

Wait, did they really?

That would be magnificent. Like Britt Reid naming himself Bill W.

King Hippo

Let’s see if Burrow and pals heeded Scotchy’s warning on them placement kicks.

Doktor Zymm

Run, Beaty, Run!

Old School Zero

chili blowback rumbling, clench yer cheeks

Horatio Cornblower

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hippofant

Yikes, when the stadium goes “Ooouuwwww” to the replay, that’s not good.

Redshirt

The away team fans, too.

LemonJello

Chef’s D thinks they’re SEAL Team 6 cuz they just killed Uzomah.

TheRevanchist

If he had stayed home, he would be okay.

ThePirateSloth

I do believe that I eat enough tacos to have an average of at least a taco a day.

ballsofsteelandfury

You should sign up for the Taco Bell Taco Club

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Spur
Brocky

Quitter

TheRevanchist

The Bengals should just wear Zubbas. The pants are just as ugly.

Petronel

Actual licensed Bengals Zubaz:

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Doktor Zymm

Stylish!

ArmedandHammered

Wow, great camouflage for when you drunkenly shit your pants.

King Hippo

anybody else ever notice their hands are so cold that you go “holy shit, what if I’m DEAD?” Just us, Other Hippo.

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Doktor Zymm

People with Reynauds are basically zombies

Horatio Cornblower

One of our local channels is showing Airplane!, and I just stumbled on the bar fight scene.
Gonna be here a minute.

JimU

The ironic thing about Airplane! is that it became infinitely more remembered than the movies it parodied, the Airport series of the 70’s and those movies were pretty popular in their time.

Horatio Cornblower

That’s because it didn’t bore anybody

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Horatio Cornblower

Tyreek Hill scoring for an Andy Reid coached team reminds me of that Louis CK line about slaves building the pyramids: “There’s no end to what you can accomplish when you don’t give a shit about other’s suffering.”

I’m not aware of anything else that Louis CK has said or done.

Doktor Zymm

Slaves didn’t build the pyramids, so you can safely assume that he hasn’t done any research into classical civilizations. He must have been spending his time in some other way.

Horatio Cornblower

As I was typing that slaves line I thought about pointing out the recent discoveries have shown the Egyptians didn’t rely on slaves, but then I figured someone here would do it.

Smartest bunch of dick-jokers on the web.

litre_cola

Canada gol. I reacted reasonably.

/woke up everyone from their naps.

Redshirt

Something tells me KC is better than Tennessee and LV.

Old School Zero

Advantage, BBQ Syrup. Let’s see how Bowel of Chili responds.

Don T

Hipster haggis sounds intriguing

Old School Zero

served with a literal bladder of wine

Petronel

PERFECTLY timed TP throw there – nice!

Old School Zero

I saw that too and had the NBA Jam announcer say “Throws up a RAINBOW!” in my head

Senor Weaselo

Well, they got the guy to the game.

King Hippo

at least Rikki’s favoUrite Chef made a TD

ballsofsteelandfury

CANADA WOOOOOO!!!

Old School Zero

ah, how will Mahomes get out of this one?? … ah, nevertheless!

Gumbygirl

Andy, you stupid fat fuck!

Redshirt

Won Challenge and lost timeout?

Old School Zero

“The yellow line is not official!” I scream inside the art museum as my skin spontaneously peels back from my face

ThePirateSloth

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Horatio Cornblower

Remember the KSK “Yellow Bar Fail” post? God that was one of the great nights on the internet.

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Horatio Cornblower

It’s not fair that this post has two sobering thoughts and Britt Reid didn’t have any.

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King Hippo

Q1 spot challenge – bad idea, or worst idea?

King Hippo

I think they should start bidding out the anthem. Ghana pays up? We do their anthem instead.

TheRevanchist

Woohoo! 8 yards on the first play of this drive. Suck it, Bungles!

King Hippo

What a Gay breakup!

Old School Zero

didja stat that thing I sent ya?

ArmedandHammered

Whoo A-10s!

ThePirateSloth

America: where one will stand for anthem, then immediately proceed to use the Tomahawk Chop.

Horatio Cornblower

Gonna hazard a guess that Francis Scott Key would have been OK with it.

LemonJello

That wasn’t a planned flyover, those A-10s were on a ferry flight to “somewhere” in Eastern Europe.*

*probably not true

ArmedandHammered

So I bought the 49 inch Samsung monitor and it is going to make watching the game and the comment section much easier with the side by side.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088HH6LW5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

ArmedandHammered

Envy me!

Spur

post your battlestation thread

ArmedandHammered

Is actually great for work, it can be split into two monitors, so I have work on one side and watch movies and stuff on the other side while I work. Looking forward to baseball season.

Gumbygirl

That’s what Gumby always did. I think we kept the monitors from his last job as a lovely parting gift.

borisnow

Update: QB ownership:

47% Burrow
43% Mahomes
8% Stafford
2% Jimmy G

LemonJello

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King Hippo

I can find no GAMBLOR angles here. Sad but true.

Spur

The silent anthem!

LemonJello

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Old School Zero

here we go football here we go *clap clap*

Fronkenshteen

I need both teams to throw haymakers all day, and Cincy to keep it under 7 when the smoke clears.

Petronel

*turns on NFLN*

…meh, this “Battle of the NFL Network Stars” isn’t any stupider than anything else they could have done anyway.

Spur

Rooting for Cincy

Doktor Zymm

Ditto

Spur

Folks.

Am back from Anaheim. Corp insisted we have a the yearly in person again. Turns out we have a credit at the JW and needed to use it before expiring. A complete waste of time. Bunch of middle managers crying that they can’t micromanage any more. We need “A players only”. Just crap that annoys me.

These yearly meetings are notorious for hook ups. I’d never try to get laid at one of these but I decided on Friday to flirt a bit. The HR rep was cute and kind of interesting. Before I did anything really stupid I ran out of there.

Don T

I still think “Let me sign the form that says ‘You fine’ ” might’ve worked.

Gumbygirl

Sensible Spur! No good can come from hooking up with HR.

Redshirt

2022 Playoffs is the year of broken Bengals streaks

Wild Card Round: Bengals lost last eight playoff games including last seven wild card games? STREAKS BROKEN!!!

Divisional Round: Bengals lost all seven away playoff games? STREAK BROKEN!!!

Conference Championship Games: Bengals undefeated in two AFC Championship Games? …uh oh.

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