2006 Cincinnati Bengals and football betting at SBG Global Sports betting

2006 Football betting season review:  The Cincinnati Bengals may have been the most disappointing team for football betting fans in the NFL in 2006.  They finished at .500 but they looked like Super Bowl contenders early in the football betting season.  The Bengals started as a great NFL betting team, strong, slumped, then won four straight to get to 8-5 and then lost their last three football betting games.  They blew a game against Denver because of a bad snap. 

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They scored at will at times, but other times threw games away.  It was truly a mystery football betting season for Cincinnati NFL betting fans in 2006.  It was also a frustrating season for football betting players.  The Cincinnati Bengals were impossible to figure out going 8-7-1 against the NFL betting spread.  They were just as difficult for football betting players to figure out football betting lines.  With a high-powered offense and weak defense most totals were set high in Cincinnati games, yet, the team went under in 9 of 16 games during that football betting period of time.

CINNCINATI BENGALS 2006 SEASON REVIEW

Cincinnati Bengals	W/L/T	ATS	OU
2006 Record	8-8	8-7-1	7-9

2006 Team Rank
	Off	Rank	Def	Rank
Pass	202.9	20	211.2	10
Rush	83.4	31	142.2	29
Total	286.4	30	353.4	25

2006 PLAYER STATS
Passing
Player		PCT	YDS	TD	INT
Carson Palmer		62.3	4035	28	13
Rushing
Player		ATT	YDS	AVG	TD
Rudi Johnson		341	1309	3.8	12
Receiving
Player		REC	YDS	AVG	TD
Chad Johnson		87	1369	15.7	7
T.J. Houshmandzadeh		90	1081	12.0	9
Touchdowns
Player		TD	RUSH	REC	PTS
Rudi Johnson		12	12	0	72
Chris Henry		9	0	9	54

Cincinnati Bengals 2006 Stats

2006 Stats	Rushing Statistics				Passing Statistics					Total
	PPG	RA	RY	RYPA	COMP	ATT	PCT	PY	PYPA	Plays	Yds	YPP	YPPT
Off.Stats	23.3	27.1	102.2	3.8	20.4	32.7	0.625	239.2	7.3	59.8	341.4	5.7	14.6
Def. Stats	20.7	28	116.4	4.2	21.9	34.7	0.629	238.6	6.9	62.7	355	5.7	17.2

The Cincinnati Bengals looked to have everything going in their favor heading into the football betting playoffs in late 2005.  They had just had breakout regular football betting season and all their young studs on offense were putting up huge numbers.  That included the number one pick overall Carson Palmer who had finally learned the offense and exploited other’s team defenses to perfection.  But during the first half of the first playoff fame in his career his knee was blown out in a terrible freak play and that was it for the Bengals during that football betting time period.  The Steelers, divisional rivals and the team that knocked them out the playoffs, would go on to win the Super Bowl and create a terrible off-season for Palmer.

But he worked very hard and in 2006 he was back and just as good as before.  Unfortunately, the rest of the team suffered a bit let down during that football betting period.  Palmer had another great NFL betting year last year putting up huge numbers for football betting fans.  Palmer threw for over 4,000 yards and had a passer rating of 93.9.  Add to that, his touchdown and intercepting totals of 28 and 13 and there were only a few QBs in the entire league last football betting year that could even considered in the same discussion as the Bengal play caller.

His receivers greatly benefited from his resurgence from the knee injury as well putting up more big numbers for football betting partisans.  The duo of Chad Johnson and TJ Houshmanzadeh again became one of the few duos in the league to each surpass 1,000 receiving during the football betting season.  Johnson hauled in 87 balls and seven touchdowns while TJ pulled down 90 catches for nine scores.  And Chris Henry, the young slot receiver not only caught 36 balls but he also caught a lot of attention from police.  As a result of his many arrests he was suspended for some of the games.

But in what turned out to be a very rough football betting calendar year for the Bengals he was hardly the only player to get arrested.  Since the end of the 2005 football betting season until now there have been nine Bengals players arrested.  And no matter what critics might say that has to have some type of impact on the team’s performance during the football betting season and for NFL betting fans too.  Running back Chris Perry was one of those players and his numbers reflected his off-field trouble as he rushed only ten times all football betting season.  The work horse in the backfield was Rudi Johnson who got a contact extension and ran for 1300 yards.  His 3.8 yards a carry for NFL betting was decent but, also pointed out the team’s less than stellar play on the O-line, although all in all the offense as in football betting years past was pretty solid.

So, how did the team end up with an eight and eight record and miss the playoffs after many experts had them written for NFL betting into the Super Bowl only several months before?  Bad luck, injuries and of course, a very mediocre defense.  Two of its young studs at linebacker missed the football betting season due to injury and personal problems.  Left to fill the back were a group of pretty untalented players by NFL standards for football betting seasons and the team got abused.  The defense as a group ranked 22nd in the NFL out of 32 teams, not very good for NFL betting.  The past defense was average; a ball-hawking group led by Kevin Keasviharn and his six interceptions and Tory James and his four interceptions.

However, against the run this group was a marshmallow pie.  The opponents just hammered the soft underbelly of the less-than-10% squad and ran over them all game long.  It was just too much of the other team eating the clock by the feeding the running back and not leaving Palmer and Co. enough time to play catch up on offense.  The run defense ranked 29th in the league which was only better than three measly teams.   The team’s leading tackler was Brian Simmons with a paltry 61 tackles, a total that on most teams would rank in the middle of the pack.  And there’s Kasviharn again, not only finishing second in tackles in the team but also leading the team in sacks with four.  One rare occasion on NFL betting where the same player leads the team in picks and sacks.  Yet, somehow this team still managed an 8-8 football betting season and just barely missed the playoffs by a whisker.  And the infuriating thing for this team is the team that knocked them out in the football betting year of 2006 was the same team that knocked them out in the football betting period of 2005…the Steelers.