Media's contempt of Bengals sparks the ire of present and former Bengals.

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(02-20-2020, 12:16 AM)Nately120 Wrote: True not every team can be a winner by the nature of the league.  Still, a team that hasn't risen above 12th place in nearly 30 years could likely use a new business plan.  You can't always win but decades of irrelevance are a whole new ball of wax. 

If we win 5 SBs the Steelers can still market the fact that they have 6.

They've definitely been higher than 12th.  They've picked lower than 21st in most of their playoff years.

I think Truck has hit the nail on the head. They aren't necessarily poorly run, but they are antiquated and slow to change.  While they haven't won a playoff game in forever, they have made the playoffs 6 times in the last decade.  

The way I look at it, while it's been a slooow crawl, they have progressed as a franchise.  The Palmer era was a dramatic improvement from the '90's and the Dalton era was a dramatic improvement from the Palmer era.  Hopefully, Burrow is as advertised and can help get the team over the hump.