Your gut feeling this season

[BFritz21]

My gut is that our defense is wicked and explosive with guys like Lawson getting to the quarterback and our young corners finally being full-go on the field and just feasting on the errant throws from being under pressure. My gut also says that Mixon has a big year and just is a machine. However, even with those two things, my gut also says that our offensive line struggles to protect Andy and it could spell the end to any postseason hopes that we have.

My mind keeps going back to '08 when the line couldn't give the traitor any time and he got injured and our season didn't have a chance. What gives me a little hope is that, even if our line does struggle that much, a big reason the line failed early in the season in '08 is because Perry wasn't a between-the-tackles runner so the D never had to respect the run and just teed-off on the pass rush.

Holding onto hope but being a Bengals fan makes it tough.