Week 4 · 2025–26 season
Bengals
L 3-28 at Broncos · Sep 29, 2025
Misery Index · Despair
Bengals fans openly mourning Burrow, Chase, and Higgins's primes while sharpening the guillotine for Zac Taylor.
The emotional rollercoaster
Fan misery across the game window. Up is worse.
What happened
B.Nix scrambled in untouched for a touchdown in the first quarter, and the night never really got more competitive than that. J.Browning's deep shot to T.Higgins was the lone flicker, while C.Sutton repeatedly carved up the secondary on short routes. D.Knight's interception was a touchback that meant nothing on a 3-28 scoreboard. Seven months of waiting for this, with J.Chase's prime ticking away — the question isn't whether something breaks, but who finally admits it already has.
What fans said
“Fire Zac Taylor”
u/maltzy▲ 127rage
“Wasting Jamarr’s prime as well right after a triple crown season don’t forget”
u/pro-laps▲ 196betrayal
“The vibes and team mental will somehow actually get worse than whatever rock bottom we are at. Waited 7 months for this fucking shit”
u/gugly▲ 462frustration
“This is pathetic. The team is quitting. Something major needs to change.”
u/Viedt▲ 107despair
“the fact that they could have been so consistently elite with better coaching and an even mediocre defense that makes it so frustrating, and tonight shows just how much the past three years have been just smoke and mirrors”
u/SalmonMan634▲ 423frustration
“This is embarrassing. Zac is a great human but needs to be gone. Duke Tobin needs to be gone.”
u/LeagueOfDolson▲ 244frustration
14 more
“How the fuck is that a false start? That’s ridiculous.”
u/AmericanDreamOrphans▲ 87rage
“They forced their own window closed by drafting like absolute garbage.”
u/C3lder▲ 58rage
“Fire Taylor, draft a top pick, this team is done. What a waste of a career for JB, Chase, and Tee”
u/metalupyerarse▲ 39betrayal
“The Brown family should be in handcuffs for the way they've swindled and defrauded Hamilton County”
u/HalcyonRedo▲ 31rage
“If he's not fired before the season ends we're gonna be looking at the 90s Bengals all over again”
u/JJiggy13▲ 29despair
“fire this piece of shit called a head coach.”
u/Wooden_Frosting427▲ 27rage
“Dude has NEVER been a good coach. Mediocre at best.”
u/AgressiveAnalExpert▲ 27rage
“Mike brown costing himself a few extra million in cap space because he's a cheap fuck lol”
u/AMcMahon1▲ 63rage
“HOW THE FUCK WAS HE NOT GIVEN A CHANCE TO CATCH THE BALL!? HE BOBBLED TWICE THEN GAVE IT TO US!!!”
u/annaleigh13▲ 23rage
“Season only lasted two weeks lol, fuck this franchise”
u/Ammar-The-Star▲ 23rage
“THREE AND OUT I KNOW THATS RIGHT”
u/elderpricetag▲ 22joy
“Waited months for this season to start and it was over two weeks later.”
u/spas2k▲ 41despair
“This team is fucking pathetic.”
u/subclass▲ 31rage
“Ass is too nice of a word for what we are”
u/akilles_xxvii▲ 31rage