Que Es Esto?

Watching the Cincinnati Bengals is a like watching Mexican League baseball. It looks and sounds like something familiar but if a donkey show broke out you wouldn't be shocked.

The off season game plan has been ridiculous even for Mike Brown standards. Brown has done a lot of stubborn things during his tenure regarding player holdouts and Carson Palmer moves to the top of that list.

I understand not wanting to empower players by caving to every demand. The difference here is that Carson Palmer sucks. He's been through for about three years now. The idea that anyone would entertain giving the Bengals a first round pick for that spent round is amazing. If Brown had swindled the Seahawks out of that haul he would be lauded as the greatest executive mind in the game today. Instead, Brown does nothing and remains the sad man he is.

So what have they been doing while they blew a chance to unload dead weight? Let their best DB (Joseph) go for nothing, turned over the team to Danny Bonaduce (Andy Dalton) and spent more than five bucks resigning a RB that hit the wall two years ago and is going to miss three weeks of the season serving a short stint in the can (Benson) and let the only two playmakers walk away on offense (Ocho & TO).

I suppose Brown could have done worse things to try and compete with the Steelers, Ravens and Browns but it's hard to imagine what. If he had any dignity he pay off the rest of that stadium himself instead of raping taxpayers. Then he find out what the University of Cincinnati was charging for home tickets and match that for Bengal tickets. Then again, if he had any dignity he wouldn't run this team that was exciting about 5 years ago into the ground again. The Brown name diminishes every day that he ruins the team.

Dignified

Wow, it's hard to tell who was the biggest flatline on this final Sunday of the NFL regular season, Denver or Cincinnati.

On the one hand, the Bengals were completely dominated by a craptastic, although playoff bound, Jets. On the other, the Broncos were demolished by an even suckier Chiefs team.

Decisions, decisions.

I guess the dubious honor of crappiest performance would have to go to Denver. When their game was being played, they were simply a win and either a loss by the Ravens or jets and they would be in. They played like the Cleveland Browns in a summer scrimmage. You have to seriously wonder about child genius McDaniels coaching ability after blowing a six-0 start and choking away the playoffs in Oakland and Kansas City. Who could have figured that Kyle Orton wouldn't be the teams biggest problem this year?

None of that excuses the horrid Bengals. Somebody should remind them that they aren't just playing out the string of another losing season. Not only did their incompetence almost guarantee a one-and-done playoff appearance for the Queen City, it subjected America to another crappy Jets game. Had the Bengals actually won, we would all be treated to the high flying, semi-insane Houston Texans. Nope, hope everyone likes the Sanchize and more Shonn Greene.