PIC ELI APPLE PIC BUMBLE IN THE MIDDLE AND PIC VONTASE AND PIC BURROW

The Cincinnati Bengals got a taste of their own medicine after they suffered a loss in the AFC Championship on Sunday versus the Chiefs. The Bengals came in 3-0 in AFC Championship games as a franchise. Very impressive record but to only make it that far three times is pathetic. All eyes were on the impressive record Joe Burrow had over the Kansas City Chiefs which was 3-0 over Patrick Mahomes, which no other guy & no other team could say that. The Mayor of Cincinnati even said that Burrow could be Mahomes’ father. Indeed we will get right on that with a paternity test. This was the kind of nonsense that was going on with the hype of this AFC Championship rematch from last year. Mahomes came away with an ankle injury from the divisional round versus the Jaguars. That injury was like blood in the water as the Bengals were king of the jungle and the Chiefs were “Who Dey,” what the fans like to chant. Suddenly the trash talking of the Bengals amplified. It all came crashing down as the Bengals defending their AFC title has come to an end.

What comes around goes around when it comes to the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals went from a team you root for to the sour cream that spoiled in your fridge. Last year, Joe Cool Burrow wowed you as he got the Bengals back to the Superbowl. The Bengals have been a complete disaster of a franchise for decades before Burrow arrived. All those losing seasons. One of the longest playoff droughts by any team in the league. When they did make the playoffs, there were all those early exits that Andy Dalton and head coach Marvin Lewis had not getting out of the first round. I think of all those teams that wore the black and orange stripes guys like Pac-Man Jones who appeared in the Police blotter more than the Pro Bowl. It seems anything good the Bengals had, got spoiled by something stupid they did on the field.

‘Football stupid’ seems to follow this Bengal franchise. On Sunday, Bengals linebacker Joseph Ossai chased down Patrick Mahomes after the gimpy quarterback went out of bounds. Ossai proceeded to knock him down to draw the flag from the referees to get the 15 yard unnecessary roughness call that set up the Chiefs for the game winning field goal.

That hit instantly brought up the ghost of Bengal past. The flash back of the 2015 Wild Card game between the Bengals and the Steelers at the time. The Bengals were winning the game in the last minute. The Steelers were down to their last play of the game. Then the Bengals linebacker, Vontase Burflict, went head hunting on Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown.

The ball was over thrown & if Burflict had avoided this huge mental mistake, the Bengals would have made it to the second round of the playoffs. Instead Burflict wanted to put the final dagger into Brown’s coffin, not the Steelers as a team. No wonder Brown acts the way he does. The Steelers were set in prime real estate on the field, kicked the field goal, and moved on to the next round of the playoffs.

When the Bengals took down Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs in the first AFC championship when these two teams met, people were happy. The Chiefs who are becoming the replacement dynasty of the Patriots in the AFC. What a great story that the Bengals were in the Superbowl after beating Mahomes in the AFC Championship. Many hope to see the Bengals beat the Rams in the Superbowl, but LA prevailed. This season the Bengals thought they won something last year, which was not the Superbowl I was watching. The Bengals talked a great game as they looked like a team that was going to talk the talk and walk the walk. After the Bengals beat the Bills, the trash talking got worse & even the Mayor of Cincinnati was involved in throwing his two cents into the ring. The Bengals even renamed Arrow Head stadium to Burrow Head stadium. Last Sunday, all that trash talking blew up in the Bengals’ faces like a pot of that famous Cincinnati chili exploding, as burnt noodles all over local faces. The Chiefs would prevail over the Bengals in a rematch of that same AFC Championship a year ago. It was a game where the ghost of Bengal past came back to haunt them playing ‘football stupid.’ In the modern age of social networking, the people all over the world chimed in and blasted the Bengals for talking trash on every social platform the internet has. Under those orange and white uniforms are just the same bumbles as this team will never change it’s stripes, because they play stupid and talk like they have won six titles.

After the win, the Chiefs did the talking. The best tight end in the game right now, Travis Kelce, blasted the Bengals and Cincinnati’s mayor. “BURROWHEAD MY ASS,” as Kelce grabbed the microphone shouted out as Patrick Mahomes was doing an interview after prevailing over the striped cats. Kelce would also say that Arrow Head is Mahomes’ house, not Burrow’s.

In the trophy ceremony, Travis Kelce would call the mayor of Cincinnati a jabloni – a term used in pro wrestling. Kelce would basically tell Aftab Pureval to stay in his lane. Kelce also said the former mayor of Cincinnati did a better job than the jabloni running their town now. Patrick Mahomes would make a dig at quarterback Joe Burrow about not having a cigar to smoke after the win. Joe Cool likes to enjoy a good smoke after a big win as he let everyone know that in the past. Other Chief players were very outspoken making comments about all these Bengal trash talkers.

The Bengals were absolutely roasted on social media and they should have been. Guys like Joe Mixon, a guy that punched a girl back in his college days. No wonder he wears orange and plays for the Bengals. Then where is Eli Apple? Apple took social media after the win against the Bills and roasted players on the Bills. Rubbed their noses in the loss like a dog getting their nose rubbed into the carpet they made a mess on. Players like Stefon Diggs and Josh Allen and even the injured Damar Hamilin. This upset Bills defensive lineman Shaq Lawson who said he will get into a fight with Apple talking about Hamlin that way. Apple suddenly said he did not mean any bad comments on Hamlin. Like we trust a total cancer in the locker room when he was on the Giants after being drafted in the first round and is a bust. You look on YouTube videos and can see many clips of Apple being toast trying to defend the opposing team receivers. Apple was torched by Cooper Kupp in the Superbowl.

Apple will still cause trouble on social media as he made comments about the Chiefs as well. What happened to Annie Apple? Eli’s mother is another person that gets lippy on social media. After the Bengals lost, the Apples were attacked on every platform of social media. Poor Annie had to shut down her Twitter.

The Bengals are going to say they were slighted by the league as they were not in the conversation of the championship game being played on a neutral site. If the Bengals would have lost to the Bills, then the game would have been played in Atlanta. The Bills and Bengals game during regular season was never rescheduled. The Bengals beat the Chiefs & had the lead on the Bills before that injury occurred with Damar Hamlin, which cancelled that game. I can see their point which is good motivation. I think the Bengals Head Coach, Zac Taylor, can’t keep his house in order letting his guys make bulletin board material for opposing teams in the playoffs. Act like you belong there. When “Sweetness” Walter Payton scored a touch down, he handed the ball to the referee. Not his first rodeo to be acting like a clown, which the Bengals are. After the game, Ja’Marr Chase complained about the referees’ bad calls during the game as the league is rigged. Yes, the league passes out the scripts to all the players before the game with the final of every score. Too bad Chase did not do his homework to know his team was only going to get this far this season. Maybe next year the writers will pencil the Bumbles in for the next Super Bowl. I’m not a Chiefs fan as I will probably root for the Eagles in the Andy Reid bowl. The Bengals’ actions and that kind of team, I will root against as the Bengals showed me their true stripes.