se-alum
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Aug 23, 2010 8:42am
Under. 9-7.
Early Cuyler
Posts: 1,097
Aug 23, 2010 12:10pm
10-6
j_crazy
Posts: 8,372
Aug 23, 2010 12:28pm
I'll say 9 wins.
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wkfan
Posts: 1,641
Aug 23, 2010 1:29pm
Under
Mulva
Posts: 13,650
Aug 23, 2010 4:57pm
Bengals road opponents (2009 home records):
Patriots (8-0)
Panthers (5-3)
Browns (3-5)
Falcons (6-2)
Colts (7-1)
Jets (4-4)
Steelers (6-2)
Ravens (6-2)
Outside of the Browns, that's a brutal road schedule. The other 7 teams were 42-14 combined at home. Unless people are banking on the Bengals to go undefeated at home, they aren't sniffing 11 wins IMO.
Patriots (8-0)
Panthers (5-3)
Browns (3-5)
Falcons (6-2)
Colts (7-1)
Jets (4-4)
Steelers (6-2)
Ravens (6-2)
Outside of the Browns, that's a brutal road schedule. The other 7 teams were 42-14 combined at home. Unless people are banking on the Bengals to go undefeated at home, they aren't sniffing 11 wins IMO.
Automatik
Posts: 14,632
Aug 23, 2010 4:58pm
Definitely under. 10-6 at best.
Thrilla12
Posts: 35
Aug 23, 2010 5:05pm
between 9 and 11 wins if healthy otherwise 8
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dave
Posts: 4,558
Aug 23, 2010 5:16pm
Mulva;459745 wrote:Bengals road opponents (2009 home records):
Patriots (8-0)
Panthers (5-3)
Browns (3-5)
Falcons (6-2)
Colts (7-1)
Jets (4-4)
Steelers (6-2)
Ravens (6-2)
Outside of the Browns, that's a brutal road schedule. The other 7 teams were 42-14 combined at home. Unless people are banking on the Bengals to go undefeated at home, they aren't sniffing 11 wins IMO.
The Bengals beat 3 of those teams on the road last year. It's not a stretch to think they could win 4 or 5 road games.
Terry_Tate
Posts: 7,606
Aug 23, 2010 5:34pm
Mulva;459745 wrote:Bengals road opponents (2009 home records):
Patriots (8-0)
Panthers (5-3)
Browns (3-5)
Falcons (6-2)
Colts (7-1)
Jets (4-4)
Steelers (6-2)
Ravens (6-2)
Outside of the Browns, that's a brutal road schedule. The other 7 teams were 42-14 combined at home. Unless people are banking on the Bengals to go undefeated at home, they aren't sniffing 11 wins IMO.
Not that it isn't already impressive enough, but you could say the Colts were pretty much 8-0 at home since they stopped playing the starters against the Jets to make it 43-13.
And as tough as that is, they still have the Saints, Steelers, Ravens, and Chargers all at home. I think this years Bengals team will be better than last years, but with such a ridiculous schedule I don't see them getting more than 11 wins. Say they win all of the "easy games", that's 5-0(and that's counting the Dolphins as easy). Of the road games I'll say they win Panthers, Browns, Falcons, Ravens, and home games I say they beat the Chargers, Steelers, Ravens. Actually now that I add that up I got 12-4, but I'll say they lose 1 game I've counted as a W to make it 11-5.