Week 14/15 recap

49ers 20, Bengals 13
Bengals 19, Rams 10.


The Bengals are a monkey who can’t pull an apple through the opening of a jar, so the monkey walks around with the jar around its arm because it wont let go of the apple.

During the off-season, players who don’t make a difference will be resigned (J. Smith, Madieu). Free agents will use us as bait and get better offers from teams they’d rather play for. Rudi and Dex Jackson will be back while DeDe will be lured back to Indianapolis. Our first round pick will pull something minor in training camp and miss the first six games. The league will finally admit they just don’t like Odell and suspend him for a third straight season. Marvin Lewis will move forward.

This square-peg-in-round-hole offense we’ve seen all year will continue to sputter as receivers run the same routes and as Rudi gets 14 carries for 28 yards. The defense will base their scheme on hope and good luck again next year. King Marv will never concede to adjustments.

This season was typified by the revolting loss at San Francisco Saturday. Frank Gore looked like an ore-hauler pushing whatever pile we stacked in front of him. The Niners knew every play we called and our best player of late, DeDe Dorsey, touched the ball twice. We’re now 1-3 against the NFC West and the win against the Rams is a forgettable one. The common sense advisor failed again on the challenge call late in the game, sacrificing a valuable timeout in the process.

The Bengals cannot handle pressure. In their only road win of the season, they choked seven times and had to kick field goals. The schedule is pockmarked with failed moments in crucial situations. Marvin has his team overanalyzing everything and it causes everyone to press more. When a team begins to press they collapse under pressure. They implode. We’re too big for our britches. We talk a lot about having so much talent but then look like a fancy car with no gas on game day. There’s not enough grit on this team. We need some silent workers who bust their asses when it counts and laughs about it when the jobs done. We should go back to the original uniforms of the seventies with the helmets that have BENGALS printed on the sides. Back to the basics.

Mojokong - Letting go of the apple