Bengals 2012 Regular Season Schedule Released

How many pick-6's will Carson Palmer throw against
the Bengals? Find out on Nov. 25. 

If you don't have Bengals season tickets, 2012 is probably the year to get them, unless you hate good quarterbacks of course, because there will be a lot of those coming to Paul Brown Stadium this season.

The good QBs coming to PBS: the Manning brothers will be in Cincinnati in consecutive weeks, so Archie will probably just rent a cottage. Tony Romo comes to town in December. Romo's career passer rating in December is zero. Ben Roethlisberger visits on a Sunday night. The Bengals should try and fill Paul Brown Stadium with college girls for that game, because as everyone knows, nothing good happens when Roethlisberger is around college girls at night.


The OK QBs coming to PBS: Joe Flacco.

The games you shouldn't attend because the opposing team's QB will be horrible: the Dolphins game. The Browns game.

The game you should attend if you hate Carson Palmer as much as we do: the Raiders game. The NFL schedule maker fell asleep at the wheel, Carson's return is not in prime time.

So when are these QBs coming to PBS? The dates are official now, the NFL released the Bengals 2012 schedule Tuesday.

Bengals 2012 Schedule


Mon. Sept. 10 (7 p.m. ET, ESPN) -- At Baltimore


Sept. 16 (1 p.m. ET, CBS) -- Cleveland


Sept. 23 (1 p.m. ET, CBS) -- At Washington


Sept. 30 (4:05 p.m. ET, CBS) -- At Jacksonville


Oct. 7 (1 p.m. ET, CBS) -- Miami


Oct. 14 (1 p.m. ET, CBS) -- At Cleveland 


Oct. 21 (8:20 p.m. ET, NBC) -- Pittsburgh


Oct. 28 (1 p.m. ET, CBS) -- BYE


Nov. 4 (1 p.m. ET, CBS) -- Denver


Nov. 11 (1 p.m. ET, Fox) -- N.Y. Giants


Nov. 18 (1 p.m. ET, CBS) -- At Kansas City


Nov. 25 (1 p.m. ET, CBS) -- Oakland


Dec. 2 (4:15 p.m. ET, CBS) -- At San Diego


Dec. 9 (1 p.m. ET, Fox) -- Dallas


Dec. 13 (8:20 p.m. ET, NFLN) -- At Philadelphia 


Dec. 23 (1 p.m. ET, Fox) -- At Pittsburgh


Dec. 30 (1 p.m. ET, CBS) -- Baltimore


Quick Notes: 


- From Weeks 2-6, the Bengals will play five teams who combined to go 24-56 in 2011.
- After the Week 2-6 stretch, the Bengals will get to spend 34 straight days in Cincinnati. The team has no road games from Oct. 15 thru Nov. 17.
- If Peyton Manning's neck doesn't fall off in the Broncos opener against the Steelers, then the Manning brothers will visit in consecutive weeks in November.
- The Bengals may not have a Merry Christmas: three of their five December games are on the road. The five teams combined to go 48-32 in 2011.
- The Bengals are one of only four teams that end the season with two straight divisional games.
- The Bengals open and close the season with Baltimore.

Our early prediction is that the Bengals go 16-0 and win the Super Bowl.

NFL Schedules 2012 NFL Schedule Release for Tuesday (April 17)

Unless the NFL twitter feed got hacked, it looks like the 2012 schedule will
be released on Tuesday, April 17. 

Just when it looked like Tuesday was going to be the worst day of the year -- that's when your taxes are due and no one likes doing taxes or paying them -- the NFL karate chopped the tax man by making a big announcement on Twitter Monday: the NFL schedule will be released April 17.

Rumors had been swirling for weeks that April 17 would be the day (we mentioned it back on April 4), but the NFL didn't make the announcement official until today.

A couple schedule tidbits:

The Bengals have opened on the road in six of the last eight seasons.

Each team is guaranteed at least one prime time game this season, so the Bengals will be on at night at least once. Coming off a playoff year, our guess is that they get three night games: one Pittsburgh, one Baltimore and Carson Palmer's return to Cincinnati.