what did you bring me, my dear friends, to keep me from the gallows pole

nfl.com has some very good reasons why marvin lewis should keep starting carson palmer over kitna this season. as the analysts point out, palmer's stats are right in line with most rookie QBs (which he essentially is), even greats like aikman, manning, and elway. at this point we're 1-4, so chances of getting into the playoffs even with kitna starting are slim to none, so we might as well stick it out with palmer to give him the experience. boomer has the best take on the situation, "The Bengals should stay with Carson Palmer the rest of the season and trade the entire defense for Ray Lewis. A quarterback can't do it all by himself."

now i just hope, like everyone else, that we can at least put up a fight against denver tonight.