stillers4me
12-05-2011, 05:13 AM
The Bengals on Sunday were the team some expected to see all year. They spent three hours on a banana peel. A season of feelgood isn't slipping away, but the optimism of a month ago surely is. If you want to be good in the NFL, you'd better be good in December. How good are the Bengals, really?
"We got off-kilter," Marvin Lewis said.
Well, yeah.
They played like children Sunday. No mistake was left unmade. They wrecked their impressive first drive with two penalties that took points off the board. Then they let that affect them the rest of the game. "We've got to learn to overcome those things," center Kyle Cook allowed after the 7-35 knockout delivered them by the Steelers. "Everything isn't going to go your way."
Young teams are fragile in the NFL. Their spirit energizes and offers hope. That works for awhile. It certainly has in Cincinnati, where youth propelled the Bengals to six wins in eight games and a five-game winning streak. That was then...............
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11339/1194641-66-0.stm?cmpid=steelers.xml&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz1fepfj4vg
"We got off-kilter," Marvin Lewis said.
Well, yeah.
They played like children Sunday. No mistake was left unmade. They wrecked their impressive first drive with two penalties that took points off the board. Then they let that affect them the rest of the game. "We've got to learn to overcome those things," center Kyle Cook allowed after the 7-35 knockout delivered them by the Steelers. "Everything isn't going to go your way."
Young teams are fragile in the NFL. Their spirit energizes and offers hope. That works for awhile. It certainly has in Cincinnati, where youth propelled the Bengals to six wins in eight games and a five-game winning streak. That was then...............
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11339/1194641-66-0.stm?cmpid=steelers.xml&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz1fepfj4vg