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
not a bengals fan but i feel the same way about my fanbase this season (jags). we’ve been so bad for so long and we’ve all begged for a solid, playoff caliber team for years and we finally have one yet the fanbase is still super pessimistic and negative. i tend to avoid the game threads for this reason. and i rly think most of it is legit jags fans not bandwagons. losing, pessissim, and negativity is so deeply rooted in many jags fans and i am like that when we suck, but we’re having a good season so it sucks to see that same negativity. so from one cat bro to another, ik how ya feel. see ya Week 13!
I’ve loved (and hated 🤣) the bengals since I was a kid. I also live in Athens. I’ve been watching Joey play since he was a freshman in high school. He’s got that dog in him. He’s not done.
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.
not real fans
It’s a systemic problem of society. Everyone wants to be a winner 100% of the time but doesn’t want to put in the work. People who are real fans will still support the team and pack the stadium. Hell, we still have a very realistic chance at a playoff spot. Joe Burrow is elite and as long as he is a Bengal we will have a chance every year.
.0000000001 percent doesn’t represent the entire fanbase
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.”
People that are saying these things are doing you a favor because now you can safely ignore any football-related opinions that those people have.
it’s a small percent, I wouldn’t trip…reality is reality but yeah some people just take it over the top, I agree about that raiders game though, I was there and man that’s a memory of a lifetime
Real fans will never lose faith and Joey B. These bandwagon fans can kick rocks.
Just downvote their comment and move on. Why make a post about them? They seem to want attention by posting outrageous shit like that. So making a post, and quoting the nonsense comment gives them more attention.
Out of all the problems with this team (that are now rearing their ugly head), Burrow is at the absolute bottom, or not even on the list. Everyone knows that. If someone is blaming Burrow, they are either, a kid who knows no better, a fan of another team that is trolling, someone who uses Burrow in fantasy and is not a fan of the Bengals, or someone looking for attention. Don’t feed into it brother.
When people become fans because a team is good and don’t know the dark ages, they go crazy when the team struggles.
I’m also a Raptors fan, and our subreddit has gotten completely toxic because all the fans who joined when we won the championship are constantly complaining that we aren’t elite (even though we’re still better than the awful teams of a decade ago).
I can see the same thing happening here too: we ever get consistently mid, this subreddit will go to hell because of the post-2020 fans.
I have to mute Twitter on how many of the bandwagons fans are so negative.
The Bills had a window, and they blew their best shot in 13 seconds in Kansas City. They were once a playoff fixture. But those rookie deals expired, Josh Allen’s cap hits have started hitting hard, players on good teams get paid to go elsewhere, vets get replaced by mid-round draft picks… and right now they’re not even in the playoffs.
I think people are frustrated because they see Cincinnati heading in the same direction.
The easy days are over for the Bengals. Joe’s cap hits are going to hit hard and fast, Jamarr is going to be the highest paid receiver in the NFL about four months from now, Higgins probably moves on, along with most of these names. The margin for error shrinks
It gets a LOT harder from here on out.
You should consider getting off social media and reddit, at least when it comes to sports. I’m thinking about it too. Gotta weigh the positives vs the negatives.
People saying that Joe ain’t it is wild