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!