Your AFC Champeenship Open Thread

There’s no time to waste!

To The Game!

Bengals/Chiefs:

-Funny how these head coach search cycles go. Certain names are mentioned over and over again but one that is not is Cincy’s DC Lou Anarumo. And look what he’s done with a D that wasn’t seen to have much talent last year. Against the Chiefs he’s had success by playing only three down linemen and dropping the rest of the players back, and yet somehow he still gets pressure on Mahomes and flusters him with the coverages he employs. I’m curious to see what wrinkle he uses today.

-There’s been plenty of shit-talking this week which tells me that this is turning into a significant rivalry. I can understand the likes of L’Jarius Sneed and Willie Gay talking smack but Eli Apple? That crappy cb is just one double move away from getting his ass torched and you know it’s going to happen. He gives me small dick energy vibes.

-High Ankle Sprain?: Has everyone else been faking it? Or is it not really that sort of injury? Or has he been pumped so full of kangaroo semen (an underrated painkiller, btw) that he can’t tell up from down? So many questions…

-WTF?: Some dumb fella wrote on a Cincy site, “It seems that the Bengals just keep playing in games with higher and higher stakes.” I think that’s how the playoffs work, sprotswriter fella.

-Burrow has feasted on the Chiefs lb’s recently so looks for Spags to perhaps replace one of his slower guys at the position (Gay?) with speedier rook safety Bryan Cook in some sub packages.

-If the focus of the Chiefs passing game centers around quick slants and screens (enabling Mahomes to get the ball out fast and not have to run around on his wonky ankle) Kadarius Toney should have a prominent role-40% of his snaps have been at the slot spot and 44% of his passes caught have been screens.

-That Cincy O-Line Problem: They held up rather nicely last week but since subbing in for La’el Collins, Hakeem Adeniji has a PFF pass-blocking grade of 30.7. (very not good)

-What the Hell Else Would He Say?: K.C.’s center and WWI enthusiast (apparently) Creed “Take Me Higher” Humphrey threw out the old, “This game will be won in the trenches” chestnut. Oof.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

The Bengals should do that on every play.

LemonJello
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Doktor Zymm

I think the Cowboys’ final play would actually make sense for Cincy

Horatio Cornblower

Still not sure about the decision to call that one ‘The Final Solution’

fleshwound_NPG

what kind of kirk cousins checkdown was that

fleshwound_NPG

ok, THAT wasnt a checkdown

King Hippo

Gotta go for it

Recovery Whiskey

Its not polite to make fun of the handicapped

Doktor Zymm

That was goofy, looks like the Bengals pounced on that one

Redshirt

Tuck rule?

Recovery Whiskey

Fumblerooski

Mr. Ayo

Wow, who knew Kermit can’t grasp a football.

fleshwound_NPG

bangles were in trouble but are now sitting pretty after that mahomes fuckupcomment image

King Hippo

#EternalFlame

Horatio Cornblower

Shhhh, Buddy’s in the thread tonight!

fleshwound_NPG

hahahahahaha

WCS

SUDDEN CHANGE

Recovery Whiskey

PC out here catching strays

Petronel

WHOA

WCS

Bungles defense getting tired…

WCS

BLEERGH

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Don’t let a bad Apple ruin the whole bunch

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Andy Reid manages timeouts worse than John List

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Andy Reid ruins more challenges than a fire at a special needs school

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Col. Duke LaCross

BANNER

Doktor Zymm

That is a hell of a catch!

WCS

The sequence was goofy.

King Hippo

I wish I had mahomes’ pain tolerance

LemonJello

And access to an NFL team medicine cabinet?

Mr. Ayo

You have enough pills to fake it.

Mr. Ayo

Nawt what my ex’s said.

TheRevanchist

🤭

Horatio Cornblower

I haven’t seen so many red flags since I met my sister-in-law.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Andy Reid is worse with red flags than Joe Paterno

fleshwound_NPG

“not as bad as me.”

-stalin, 1941

“oh yea?”

-hitler, 1943-1945

WCS

“Really?”

— Bolsheviks, 1917

LemonJello

“What about us?”
-Khmer Rouge, 1975

Redshirt

Are they allowed to measure their arm for a replay?

Wakezilla

Good thing the cold doesn’t affect the size of the arm

ballsofsteelandfury

That’s a bad challenge

WCS

Evidently not.

King Hippo

Still is b/c out of challenges for game

Doktor Zymm

That’s what Andy Reid gets for eating 30 cursed fortune cookies

LemonJello

He wasn’t going to let them go to waste.

Mr. Ayo

Out of timeouts, so yes.

BUT! A TD makes it all worth it.

ballsofsteelandfury

Exactly. It’s not the call. It’s that you don’t get much by getting the call.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Usually when a mixed person limps like that on national TV, people ask if Lenny Kravitz did acid backstage

WCS

Andy Reid with a good challenge?

HAIL CHAOS

Mr. Ayo

The Pebble Beach Pro-Am needs to die. Worthless golf event.

And yes, the rest are worthy and fun and enjoyable to watch.

King Hippo

Out of challenges now. Terrible

Mr. Ayo

But, first down!

lol, jk. Refs don’t overturn spots.

Mr. Ayo

Wow, zebra on zebra crime.

Must be sympathizing with Memphis.

Horatio Cornblower

How do you lose a challenge if you get the call overtu…Oh, right, the NFL sucks at everything. Carry on.

herodotus450

This Bengals secondary I call it the Exxon C-Suite because none of them are taking responsibility for Valdes-Scantling

Doktor Zymm

In the sequel to COCAINE BEAR, it turns out that Mahomes’s bath bombs are full of topical anesthetic, i.e. cocaine. The bear breaks into the practice facility and the two bathe together while making fun of the Utah Jazz Bear mascot

WCS

Hey everyone, Dok’s drunk!

LemonJello

A Dungeons & Dragons movie?

*rolls D16*

Nope, I will not be watching that.

BugEyedBoo

Getting my geek on; wtf is a D16? 2D8 maybe.

LemonJello

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Mr. Ayo

Dude, D12 or D20, there is no in between.

LemonJello

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Mr. Ayo

I played myself. Dammit!

ThePirateSloth

I rolled a natural 20. I HAVE to go see this now.

TheRevanchist

Didn’t they learn with the last Dungeons & Dragons movie that it simply doesn’t work in a movie?

WCS

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They didn’t listen to the citizens of Amity Island about the dangers of Mazes and Monsters, either.

Brick Meathook

Yes, but this one is about Dungeons & Dragons

LemonJello

Mahomes looking like he needs something to take the edge off that ankle owie.

Horatio Cornblower

Billy Packer was an arrogant prick, and no one misses him.

WCS

Yes.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Man I felt like an asshole bringing my old Goodyears to the “Justice for Tyre” rally

Brick Meathook

Can’t blame Whitey for this one.

ThePirateSloth

Do these movie execs really believe there’s a Venn diagram with people watching NFL playoffs and WWII history buffs and/or NOLANVERSE-ophiles to justify a heavy ad campaign for the newclear bombs movie?

Brick Meathook

As a big fan of nuclear weapons I enjoy those commercials.

WCS

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Wakezilla

Those tall Bungles wideouts are a problem for them Chiefs DBs

TheRevanchist

Fuck the entire state of Ohio.

LemonJello

Taking a page from Jags/Shitty Clippers Cincy? Bold strategy.

Mr. Ayo

Burrowhead is BACK!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Oi, ‘Enry! Methinks we have a game!

herodotus450

Speaking of Jerry Ryan, ppl forget that when he caught that TD to beat the Bengals in Super Bowl 1988 a little boy named Barack Obama made a lot of money on the game that launched his career as a Community Organizer in Chicago, and beyond
/member when Lawyer, Community Organizer, and Senator wasn’t qualified enough for republicans?

ballsofsteelandfury

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fleshwound_NPG

dayum

WCS

Tee Higgins typed in “IDDQD” before that play.

ThePirateSloth

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Petronel

NOICE!