Bills' public, messy meltdown manages to make Bengals look good

This offseason, it takes a lot to make the Cincinnati Bengals look good.

The Bengals decided to run it back with Zac Taylor. Then, the franchise seemed to want praise for letting Duke Tobin chat with the media to end the season, something most other franchises do multiple times throughout the year.

Alas, here come the Buffalo Bills to make sure the Bengals look great.

Bills owner Terry Pegula and general manager Brandon Beane had an instantly, negatively viral press conference this week in a session that pretty much screamed the Bills have slammed their own contention window shut.

Pegula, at one point, suggested, while talking over Beane, that a bad call ruined their playoff hopes. Both men worked hard, for whatever reason, to explain away the reasoning for firing former head coach Sean McDermott.

It went as far as Pegula revealing he made the decision to fire his head coach a mere moments after a playoff loss last weekend. Both men also tried to shift blame around about who was actually responsible for drafting bust Keon Coleman.

The two men swore it was the fault of the coaching staff, before internet sleuths debunked that in real time:

Say what you will about the Bengals, they would never put on a disaster class like this.

The Bengals have their faults. Mom-and-pop shop allegations are fair. They want to win their way. Tobin basically just told fans that, despite the years of bad drafting, having the smallest scouting department in the NFL is a good thing, and that the other 31 teams are wrong.

But the Bills clearly aren’t that much better. In some respects, they could be worse. And one could suggest they’re also possibly wasting the prime of an MVP-level quarterback.

The Bengals do the expected stuff. But the Bills, after bowing out of a postseason that was wide open for them to get a Lombardi, just had a public, messy meltdown that might’ve done even more harm.

The Bengals, to their credit, wouldn’t hit that sort of rock bottom.

This article originally appeared on Bengals Wire: Bills’ public, messy meltdown manages to make Bengals look good

Bills’ public, messy meltdown manages to make Bengals look good

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