Were the pre-Joe Bengals as bad as most think?

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(01-31-2023, 10:16 PM)ElkValleyBengal Wrote: The only thing the Bengals have never really had is sustained post-season success.  As everyone knows this was the first time the franchise had seen consecutive seasons with post-season success.  In terms of public image, the Bengals still carry the baggage of the 90s.

Another thing is that even when we were decent in the Marvin era, we'd lose most of our prime time games and all of our playoff games, and a lot of the time it didn't seem to matter who we were playing, we'd just lose.  When you are a small market team without a history of SBs from years past to bolster your image you get lost in the mix, so any time a casual crowd would watch us we'd come off as a decent team that can't even look decent when all eyes are on us. 

That hurts the brand, for sure.