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

[Essex Johnson]

90s decade killed us and even when we became competitive in 2000s we had stigma could not shake and funny when we made playoffs 5 straight years which was is not easy stigma continued with playoff drought. In our division since 2012 we have tied with Ravens for most divisional Champs with 5. No doubt there has been bias just compare how they talk about the Browns franchise at times with less stigma though they has been worse franchise than us in 90s. Here is something more amazing than our previous drought in playoffs, how about not winning your own division for the past 34 seasons since 1989. Maybe now with our success it will put to rest the bias narrative about our franchise history compared to some others.