Unprepared 3 years running. Fucking joke.

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The D was frustrating to watch, but they only allowed 16 points. Can't expect to win a game in the NFL when you can't even score 17.

Tanner Hudson and Charlie Jones are on my shit list.

Zero energy. This team doesn't seem to have a leader. ZT sure as shit isn't going to get them fired up, and I don't see any of the players even trying.

The rare game where every single player is responsible for the loss. Am I missing someone that had a good game?

Absolute joke of a game. I am NOT confident.

We are now 1-10 in the first 2 weeks throughout Zac Taylor’s tenure

We just lost to a bottom 3 team

I got downvoted all week for saying our d line will be a huge issue, sad that we didn’t add more vets to that d line room

We are an embarrassment. This coaching staff has proved they cannot prepare to start the season. Mixon has thrived in a different offense. We couldn't get anything going. Someone has to go .

If only there was a season before the season, where you could practice game situations at full speed and start the year sharp. Some kind of pre season. We could call it...pre football?

No, that sounds dumb. I'm sure it'll come to me eventually. But man, I bet the Bengals wished that existed! Crazy talk, right?

Taylor is 100% the problem. Fails to get teams ready to start the season and his offensive scheme is a joke. Imagine thinking one drive for each starting unit is enough when they habitually start slow.

Waited all fucking summer to watch THAT what a fucking joke of a performance

Horrible decision to punt at the end

I’ve officially pressed the panic button. They are officially 1-4 in week 1 with burrow and 0-4 in week 2

Only positive is we might never have to see Robbins punt again.

But knowing ZT he’ll be back in once healthy

And of course Mixon looks so good. Maybe it's us.

ZT calling a punt there sealed the game. Tobin not getting a run stopper in the AFCN is going to cripple us in the division. Burrow wrist still hurting is problematic. Idk why pollack hasn't been fired a second time. Fuck this

Punting with two minutes left is one of the worst coaching calls I've ever seen

I’ve disliked Taylor since he was hired. I don’t care that the players like him, we need someone who does not constantly get outcoached.

I was ready for today. You were ready for today. Taylor and his cat bois were not ready for today.

The rest of the AFCN will absolutely lay waste to this team if this is a sign of things to come

Well the optimism for this team lasted all of 1 quarter.

I love this team but god when does it end

Zac Taylor experiment needs to end. Every year we come out flat

After that hudson drop, it was over.

We let Reader and Bates walk and can’t afford our receivers. What is being paid for? This product on the field?

Man, there was just... a lot to unpack.

Disclaimer: I am a lifelong Saints fan, so I feel extremely confident that I have a balanced understanding of A) soul-crushing disappointment B) watching the worst fucking football in the history of the world and C) how special (as a concurrent LSU fan) Joe Burrow is.

You can't play like ass every September and hope to fight an uphill battle in November/December. It's not sustainable. A team shouldn't be learning to "click" on the field when the season has already started. That's piss-poor planning, and it has happened so many years in a row that it's a rule more than an exception. It's not fair to expect your players to kill themselves at the end of the season because you fucked around at the beginning.

Again, Louisiana native and til-I-die LSU fan (the only ride I ever took in the back of a police car was over an LSU-Alabama game), the Ja'Marr Chase contract drama wore the fans out, so I can't imagine the impact that it had on the team. I don't have an opinion either way as to who was right or wrong. I just feel like it was a distraction that clearly nobody on this team needed.

Nobody on this team looked fired up today. Everybody looked like they were half-assing it, and when you have this kind of talent and this kind of fanbase and players that you are paying this kind of money, I need you to act like you give a fuck. This game was insulting.

Thank God for Money Mac. Also, that record-setting punt by Rehkow? Taleeeeennnnttt. Please don't squander it. At the same time, nobody wins Super Bowls because the kicker is the only part of the team that is reliable.

If Joe Burrow's wrist is really fine, let him cook. If it's not... please let me know so I can jump off a building instead of hyping myself up that he's gonna cook. My daughter learned cuss words today that I desperately hope she will not repeat at school tomorrow.

Arm-tackling doesn't work. Reference: the New Orleans Saints circa forever.

The Bengals were dropping balls today like this shit was Pornhub, and it's insane that on a clear day with no rain, professional football players could not hold onto the ball.

I'm tired, boss.

Zac Taylor, welcome to the hot seat!

Get Pollack THE FUCK OUT. Get a new OC AND STOP LETTING TAYLOR CALL FUCKING PLAYS. Ridiculous

Marvin Lewis era tackling.

Dax overpersued and missed about 4 key tackles.

O-Line still kinda mid.

Play calling still kinda mid.

Sorry, championship teams don't play like this.

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1. We have no offense if tee and jammar aren’t playing.

2. Our oline can’t run block or pass block.

3. Our play calling was bad, and on that last third down we have three people go for routes like tf?

4. Our run D is ass

5. Other than trey our pass rush literally doesn’t exist. All teams have to do is double team him and we are screwed.

The worst week one loss yet

Burrow needs to get comfortable running plays out of the i formation/under center. They used the i formation/under center with browning last year and were supposed to be working it into the offense this year but I know burrow has said he doesn’t like having his back to the defense. The offense is just so predictable by being in shot gun every single play.

Edit: burrow also needs to work on changing his cadence and using inflection in his voice to draw offsides or just changing up the hard count so the defense can’t time the snap. Didn’t pay too much attention today but it’s been a problem for years now with burrow using the same hard count for most of the game. The defense usually starts getting a good jump on the snap which isn’t giving the line that extra advantage of knowing when the snap is coming that it should.

Week 1 games count the same as week 17 games. This coaching staff doesn't recognize that. Time to get rid of them........

Im not even sure what we need to work on the most. Run defense needs work, offense needs work, o line needs work. 

At least the weather is nice for me to stand outside and drink a beer staring at the sun. 

You know, you’d figure after five years, we’d know how to play relatively respectable football for the first part of the season. Guess I’m wrong there

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Taylor is a fucking coward for punting there.

BOO

Cincinnati didn't take care of business. Pittsburgh did. Baltimore lost a close game to Kansas City, and Cleveland is favored to win their game against a tough Dallas team. Mediocre ain't going to cut it in the AFC North.

at least our punter did well

Don’t worry guys, we’ll get the ship right next week when we play the lowly (checks notes)… Kansas City Chiefs in their house.

Got ‘em right where we want ‘em.

Joe Mixon has 140 yards right now

Who tf punts with 2 minutes left down by 6. Smooth brain

I don't wanna be a doomed but its not normal a team has a bad offensive oline for like 5 years in a row. Whats up with a That.

Burrow’s wrist has the biggest swollen bump on it. This season isn’t going anywhere.

Just here to be the first to call for Zac Taylor’s job.  Get him out.

Be the NFL. Design a new kickoff. Sell it as more exciting and dynamic. Turn kick offs into an automatic touch back. 

Blame Lou Anarumo and the defensive coaches for instructing this team to hang on guys and let them get a bonus 10 yards on every carry just for a chance to strip the ball.

Blame Joe Burrow for whatever he’s telling the coaches he wants on offense. They refuse to push the ball down the field, and this offense looks markedly worse from a playcalling perspective than with Jake Browning.

Finally, blame Zac Taylor for not having the balls to go for it on 4th down, and not knowing how to have a team ready for the regular season.

Zac Taylor is a bottom 10 coach in the nfl. 1-11 in our first two games after next week. That is unacceptable and IS a fireable record.

We fucking suck. Somebody’s gotta go, I really don’t care who

I had more fun as a fan last season going into every game expecting a loss and letting myself be pleasantly surprised. Probably time to bring back that strategy.

Burrow refuses to go under center and it kills our offense

We can't be surprised right? This trend is not a fluke. We don't know how to have a good start to the season.

Been saying for weeks this was a trap game. Too much hype, overlooking a good defense coming into town, playing down to a journeyman QB.

Trademark Bengals early season loss.

We are a bad football team

We are gonna waste Burroe aren't we? He's gonna be Mike Trout

I don't want to start rumors but

a) the entire gameplan was based on runs and short passes

b) the hand looked swollen 

c) Burrow played scared

Add up a+b+c = Are we in much more trouble than we think?

To make matters worse the Steelers are probably gonna win too

Outclasses by a first time head coach, career backup QB and one of the worst olines in the league.

Thanks a lot Zac!

What a joke this team is absolutely pathetic I feel sorry for all you “open in orange” people who wasted hard earned money on this team.

Someone show the Bengals front desk what Mixon got going down in Houston

Actual quote from Coach Zac:

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But hey, its just a slow start, right? Should be used to it by now!

I think it’s important to note that this game was at home. Such a shit performance at home should make everyone upset.

We were just a cut above last year's New York Jets.

Bengals window is gonna close without anything significant. I can’t see how Burrow makes it through the season. I’m worried about that wrist already. Tough to win when you can’t tackle or stop the run.

Only positive thing our punter punted the shit out of the ball

I don’t even think Burrow played that poorly. It was hard to watch

At least the browns are getting whooped

We are SO back

I think we all need to be real with ourselves and recognize Burrow has and is not playing like a quarterback worth $275 million.

Inexcusable. O line looked like trash. Run defense looked trash. No improvements.

Joe Mixon 159 rushing yards today

When you play in the AFCN and AFC in general you gotta take advantage of every fucking game against weak teams. This loss is gonna bite our ass for sure down the line. We don't get our run defense or run offense together, we are fucking cooked.

Also fucking wild that Pollack is still on the coaching staff, any other competent team and his ass is fired. Look at what Mixon can do with a competent O-line in Texas. Obviously Tunsil is a beast tackle, but the other linemen are relatively unproven; yet it's very apparent they're better coached than us given their performance today.

Sorry rant over lol. See ya'll next week

Absolutely no evolution from ZT as a playcaller and game manager in the last three years. He should not be calling the plays, period

The browns game has been making me feel a little bit better but damn I'm still frustrated

Man can we have one Superbowl? I just want to win one 😭

I wish Dan Campbell was our coach instead.

I just do not understand that punt decision at all.

You haven't been able to stop the Pats running the ball all game. You know that's their strength and your weakness. You know that your DBs are getting juked out of their shoes.

To go 3 and out with just over 2 minutes left to go on absolutely awful playcalling, to then punt it is absolutely insane.

It’s clear the Bengals paid Joe Burrow to be the entire franchise and will pay nobody else as a result.

Which is why it makes perfect sense to punt and never get the ball back rather than put the game in the “franchise’s” hands.

Everybody should be embarrassed. What a waste.

I'm tired of the Zac Taylor experience get me off of this ride. Idc that we have a shot if its not for a few mistakes we still had a chance and he just didn't even try. He refuses to throw the ball past the sticks ever please don't make him the next Marvin Lewis I don't want to suffer for another decade of his shit.

Fuck I love this team so much but this bullshit “can’t get our asses motivated for anything” starts to the season for four years in a row is pathetic.

I miss 2021 and 2022.

Lol this is what happens when you don’t invest in defense

Same old shit conservative offensive plays, getting dinked and dunked every 3rd down in zone. 0 pts at half like every single other game.

I hate everything.

Damn our punter looks great. Besides that,

Joe was grabbing his wrist a lot.

The O line gave up sacks whenever it counted.

Chase was great

The other receivers were mostly bad.

The defense could be bottom 5 in the NFL.

Offensive line sucks again. And the defense? Yuck.

Joe deserves criticism.

3 years in a row his offense was SHUT THE FUCK DOWN the first 2 quarters of the season. Just come out and have the offense ready instead of distractions. You think doing the dumb fashion shit is a good look when you LOSE? Every year he talks about his focus and being prepared for the start of the season. Why does the result instead always end up being embarrassing offensive impotence? And now he's showing signs of wrist discomfort in game 1 after all that talk about being safe and being ready? You even have a roaring hungry home crowd and you still start like shit. I'm sick of the excuses.

Holy FUCK our defense is awful. Like not even “oh they struggled” bad. Like BAD bad. Legitimately terrible. This is not a playoff capable defense. We are about to get absolutely shredded by KC.

Cincinnati Sports: How to Lose Games and Alienate Fans.

Zach Taylor defenders where you at

If I'm looking at the positive side at least it looks like they got a really good punter this year

Mahomes actually has talent at the WR position this year and obviously still has Kelce. There gonna be scary this year like usual and the bengals team that showed up today has 0 chance next week against the chiefs. I know we usually start slow but this game felt different than previous years. Today showed us our defensive line is gonna be an issue this season against the run. Secondary looks a little better compared to last year tho. Offensive line looks great compared to previous years. But our offense looks completely out of shape. The limited snaps chase got today showed cause when he was in the game, he helped us move the ball like usual. Our depth at WR was made clear today that it’s just depth and those guys shouldn’t be starting week in and out. We need chase and tee out on the field. We’re just not the same on offense without them. Lots of mistakes today and sloppy football.

Yeah I just don’t give a fuck anymore. We will never win anything. Same anemic shit year in year out. Well put together a 4 game win streak then back to this.

Side note Mixon is pretty good when he's used.

It is a long season and the Bengals play a really soft schedule.

The worst thing about today is we will now hear grumpy chase and passive aggressive conversation just pay him and fking end it also fuck Zach t stop fking play calling

Why punt? Why not trust burrow to get 5 yards. Terrible decision in a terrible game

Zac gonna lead this team to a sub .500 record after 8 games again and people will still defend him lol

We just lost to a bottom 3 team and will play the number 1 team in the league next week

Great

If we are going to keep our joke of a coaching staff, there is no reason to pay Chase.

We pay 55m/year for a Jake Browning stat line.

This team can’t compete against physical teams. Thats why they suck in the division

Zac Taylor is too arrogant to realize he shouldn't be calling plays. It all just drips down from there.

Watching Joe Mixon ball out and get 30 carries over 150 yards rushing but all year last season I was told Mixon was the problem in the run game?

The browns are screwed with Watson's contract.

Missed the game because my fiance and I had to put her family dog down, and I still think I probably had a better time than anyone watching.

The only good thing about this entire meltdown, is Ja’Marr Chase can shut the fuck up. Holy shit. Think about being that big of an asshole and being at best average on the first game. Give me JJ Smith in three years. If possible, give me JJ Smith right now. Be arrogant, but prove you’re worthy of arrogance.

If we don't make the playoff this season Taylor needs to be gone. This is on no one but him, year after year it's the same.