SBN's Cincy Jungle: How About A Mulligan?

Over at SBN’s Bengals blog, Cincy Jungle, the fans are surprisingly serene following the team’s last-minute breakdown versus the downtrodden Raiders. From Cincy Jungle:

Sometimes it just doesn’t work out. That’s a lesson we’ve learned countless times watching football, baseball, or going through the difficult trials of balancing social dominance with academics in high school. Here’s what didn’t work out for Cincinnati. The Bengals lost in a game that they should have won. That didn’t work out. The Bengals’ Andre Caldwell received the kickoff after Oakland’s game-tying touchdown with :33 seconds left in the game. While trying to get as many yards as he could, Caldwell has the ball stripped by Oakland’s Brandon Myers. Caldwell learned a lesson. […]

This is how I’m thinking about this weekend. We’ll call it a Mulligan weekend. Why? Everyone in the division lost, so this game doesn’t hurt the Bengals at all. Sure, they could have increased their lead. But they didn’t. Realistically, after the loss, there was no change in the division. And since common-opponent and conference tie-breakers will have no bearing on the division, provided the Bengals at least tie the Steelers and Ravens, then Cincinnati is still in the drivers seat.

Mulligan weekend, I like that. It works.