Looking through the in game thread I saw people saying things like, “Joe Burrow isn’t the guy” or “he’s just a system QB who’s injured to often.” It genuinely makes my blood boil to see how some of y’all seem to have forgotten what it was like to be a bengals fan before 2021. I know we didn’t win the Super Bowl but winning the playoff game against the Raiders was straight euphoric. Everyone is allowed to have an opinion and I know emotions are high but the amount of negativity and people turning on the guy who literally turned our franchise around is gross. I may not agree with all the decisions that the team makes but it’s gonna take a lot more than one .500 season for me to forget what it was like during the Marvin Lewis era and how much easier it is to be a fan now.
It’s crazy how many bandwagon fans that have accumulated since we started winning. You can spot them a mile away. I knew that success brings the lowest common denominator but I didn’t think there would be so many fragile idiots making the most noise.
*slides sadly off the soapbox
Reddit gonna Reddit.
Constantly reminding myself that as a grown ass, seasoned, accomplished man … I’m paling around with children and college kids on Reddit.
The internet has turned the world on its head. There’s no way I’d sit and discuss a Bengals game with a child that wasn’t a friend’s kid in my house on Sunday. But in here, you just carry on a conversation with anyone in your sub with no knowledge of who they are.
So yeah … I don’t expect emotional maturity out of Reddit users as a baseline. Some of us have learned it, some haven’t.
I don’t play for the Bengals and neither do any of you. Take a breath and focus on your life. Not Joe Burrow’s. Promise… there’s value to be found on Sundays outside of the Bengals being a superbowl contender.