Bengals Fans, Your Wishes May Come True. But Is It What You Really Want?

The Cincinnati Bengals haven't lived up to expectations this season after being a Super-Bowl favorite in the offseason with a record of 3-6-1 after a devastating loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday. Not only did the Bengals lose the game but they may have also lost two of their best players -- A.J. Green (hamstring) and Giovanni Bernard (ACL) -- for the remainder of the season. However, now is the time where Bengals fans may get what they've been asking for.

Cleveland Browns Fans Have To Take Notes From Sixers Fans

The Cleveland Browns are winless after 10 weeks of football and are in the basement of the NFL and the only team that has failed to win a game thus far. After an embarrassing 28-7 loss against the division rival Baltimore Ravens, leaving them 0-10 on the season, there are lots wondering if the Browns can win a game this season.

The last team to go win-less (0-16) were the Detroit Lions in the 2008 season.

Head coach Hue Jackson was a big-time hire entering this season. Formerly the offensive coordinator of the Cincinnati Bengals and was the biggest name, to most, of the off season.

The 2012 no.2 overall draft-selection Robert Griffin III or 'RGIII' signed with the team back in March of 2016 after struggling to recover from nagging injuries, playing inconsistent and being outplayed by former-draft mate Kirk Cousins (third-round selection in 2012). When Griffin signed with the team, there were a lot of analysts and people around the league that felt that the Browns would be a pretty good team and Hue's system would compliment his [Griffin's] abilities and it could help, maybe, resurrect his career. Now, I don't think anybody picked the Browns to win a playoff game but they at least saw a competitive team.

If I were to express what I thought of the current situation of this team, it would be that they remind me of one other professional organization.  That organization being... The Philadelphia 76ers also referred to as the Sixers.

In 2014 the Sixers drafted former Kansas Center Joel Emiid, who was highly scouted and ranked coming out of college. During his lone year at Kansas, Embiid played second fiddle to former no.1-overall-selection Andrew Wiggins. When Emiid was drafted, it seemed as if he had an issue with being drafted to the organization as he was on delay on a video stream. But that wasn't the biggest thing that made fans panic in Philadelphia. Embiid didn't play a game in his first two seasons of being drafted. There were questions, before this season, if he ever would. Through the two years without Embiid the Sixers started a slogan to try to get their fans to "buy-in" to what they were doing and the direction of the organization/team "trust the process" is the slogan that they've been living by. Now, with Embiid playing, the Sixers are showing that they can at least be fun to watch and will be a competitive team as this young team matures. When they get to see 2016 first-round selection Ben Simmons, 2015 first-round selection Jahlil Okafor and Embiid together, that's when I believe the fans will get to see the true "process" that the organization has been talking about.

The Sixers haven't had a winning record since 2011-12 (35-31) which was a shortened season, due to an NBA lockout. That year they lost in the NBA eastern conference semi-finals

The Cleveland Browns organization, not only the fans, should learn to adopt the same attitude as the Sixers. Hue Jackson is a very good coach. We've seen Terrell Pryor Sr. develop into a very good wide receiver and they've even been able to get Isaiah Crowell to look like one of the best running backs in the league. Rome wasn't built in one day, neither were the 2016 World Series champion Chicago Cubs and neither will the Cleveland Browns.

The Browns fans need to be patient, give Hue Jackson some time and TRUST THE PROCESS. There was a reason that Jackson was one of top head coaching candidates last season, there's a reason the Bengals players and organization loved having him in the locker room. This is a team that you have to give time to improve.

The NBA is Very Young at One Position

The NBA is really a guard league. There was one point in time where you needed a dominant Center or Power Forward to be a competitive team. The "big men" in the NBA were the main attraction, at one point, outside of the legendary Michael Jordan. When you think about the legacy of the NBA it's hard to think of a time when there wasn't a very good center or power forward on a good or great team. Think about it. You had Shaquille O'Neil, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon, Karl Malone, Charles Barkley and this list goes on and on. Right now, there isn't one traditional center or power forward that I can even name or at least based on one thing that I noticed.

There are some really good centers and power forwards that are beginning to emerge around the NBA. DeMarcus Cousins, Dwight Howard, Jahlil Okafor, Karl Anthony-Towns and Anthony Davis, just to name a few. But these players are all relatively young and all of them were one-and-done players in college (except for Howard, he came out of high school) and their careers are still young, their story is just starting to be written.

 All good things come to an end, even when you don't realize it. Well, last year, two great things came to an end. After nearly 20 years a piece in the NBA, two icons of the power forward position, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett both called it a career. One thing I never realized is how much they still meant to the game. Even though they had both been past their prime. With both Duncan and Garnett now retired from the hardwood, there are no active players inside the top 25 of the all-time rebounds list. Duncan (6) and Garnett (9) were the last two active players on the list after hall-of-fame center Shaquille O'Neil retired in 2011.

The next active player closest to getting into the top 25 is Atlanta Hawks center Dwight Howard. 

The NBA is now recognized as being a "guard" league and rightfully so. But, the art of being a "big man" in the league is still very much relevant and much needed. One thing that this tells me is that we've got some young players in the league that we'll, hopefully, be able to watch grow and mature into great and maybe even legendary power forwards and centers. One day, you never know, it could turn back into a league dominated by the "big man".

Colin Kaepernick Didn't Vote and It Makes Sense

Do You Trust The Oakland Raiders? I Don't!

 

The Oakland Raiders have been playing great so far against a lot of lack-luster teams. The team is really good and I see a lot of promise but I wouldn't call them one of the best teams in the league just yet. The team is currently sitting at the top of the AFC west at 7-2 but sometimes records can be deceiving, especially come playoff time.

Where Does The Wentz Wagon Stand?

  Carson Wentz made his first career trip to the Meadowlands to face the division rival New York Giants. The game didn't start the way that Wentz, Head Coach Pederson, or Eagles fans would've hoped. Wentz opened with an interception on each of the first-two possessions. Those two possessions pretty much sum up the day for Wentz and the offense. Defense and Special teams kept the game in arms reach and Wentz play better as the game progressed. Unfortunately, the Eagles were never able to capture the lead back and ended up falling to the Giants 28-23. Wentz was 27-47 passing on the day with 346 yards and two interceptions.

Wentz has two passing touchdowns and four interceptions in his last three games.

The no.2-overall-pick of this years NFL draft Carson Wentz started off the season looking nearly flawless, throwing his first 134 pass attempts without an interceptions, getting the Eagles off to a 3-0 start. Since then, the Eagles have gone 1-4 (only win was against the then-undefeated Minnesota Vikings) and Wentz has shown that he has flaws now having thrown five interceptions in four of the last five games.

Wentz, drafted second overall, was drafted to be the Eagles quarterback for the future after the Eagles traded up in the draft to get him. However, it didn't seem as if he would start after the team had already re-signed veteran Sam Bradford and also signed former Kansas City Chiefs backup Chase Daniels. After Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater was ruled out for the season with a severe leg injury during practice, they made a trade with the Eagles for Bradford. The Eagles boosted Wentz from third-string quarterback to the starter right before the start of the regular season.

Doug Pederson is just the third head coach for the Philadelphia Eagles since 1999. The team is currently sitting in last place of the division, behind the Redskins who were saved by a tie game with the Cincinnati Bengals.

One interesting thing to remember when looking at this Eagles schedule is the fact that all of the teams losses, thus far, have all come on the road; five of the eight remaining home games are home games. The Eagles aren't in an ideal position in the division standings, after starting the season 3-0. However, they're still in the playoff hunt and the season looks like it could be far from over for this team. Can Carson Wentz keep the Eagles from falling below .500 or could the ship be sinking in Philadelphia? We'll find out more as the Atlanta Falcons (6-3) travel to Philadelphia November 13 at 1:00 PM ET.