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Why so sensitive?

Mr. Scot

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Draft weekend is generally a time when even Bengals fans have visions of their team holding the Super Bowl trophy.

Heck, who should have more reason to be optimistic than us? Wholesale changes have been made in the team (for the better, I think) and while another disastrous year is technically possible, it isn't a stretch to say that we have nowhere to go but up.

And yet a significant portion of the discussion here today is about what could go wrong, dislike of Hurney / dislike of this year's picks or bad stuff someone said about us :(

I'm as big a believer in being realistic as you'll find, but even I gotta ask: For at least a day or two, wouldn't it be more fun to leave last year's disasters behind and dream a little?

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Hardest Schedule in the NFL (based on last year) + One of the biggest projects ever + Not being able to practice/communicate due to greedy bastards = Recipe for disaster

sorry :(

Agreed..and im usually at least semi-optimistic.

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Draft weekend is generally a time when even Bengals fans have visions of their team holding the Super Bowl trophy.

Heck, who should have more reason to be optimistic than us? Wholesale changes have been made in the team (for the better, I think) and while another disastrous year is technically possible, it isn't a stretch to say that we have nowhere to go but up.

And yet a significant portion of the discussion here today is about what could go wrong, dislike of Hurney / dislike of this year's picks or bad stuff someone said about us :(

I'm as big a believer in being realistic as you'll find, but even I gotta ask: For at least a day or two, wouldn't it be more fun to leave last year's disasters behind and dream a little?

:eek:We agree.

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That's a reach to say "biggest project ever". He's no more a project than Big Ben was after his draft day.

Exactly from the sounds of it Rivera see's Cam as a Big Ben/Vince Young type rookie. People that didn't watch Cam in college still reaching with that raw label. Sure he's not the finished product but imo he's far from raw project like a Colin Kaepernick.

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Great. I've never been pessimistic about a season thinking we would be the worst team in the league in APRIL.

where did i say we would be the worst team in the leauge? just said we were gonna be bad. we dont play the piss poor nfc west this year either.

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