Week 1 - Bengals Power Ranking Roundup

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(09-07-2021, 06:05 PM)JaggedJimmyJay Wrote: I doubt anyone is ranking the Bengals 29th right now because Mike Brown had a team go 3-13 in 1992.

Zac Taylor's record may indeed color their views, but that would also be a problem -- these national outlets do not know or understand this roster, and it's not just a Bengals phenomenon. It's what makes the rankings so silly. You can just take 2020's final standings, reshuffle them with slight variation, add a team with an injury return somewhere, and call it an article.

What's there to understand?
Taylor's record speaks for itself. 6.5 wins across 32 games.
Only real new faces on offense are Chase and Reiff.
Defense has quite a few new guys (Ogunjobi, Hendrickson, Awuzie, Hilton) but that's because quality talent left (Atkins, Dunlap, Lawson, WJ3, Alexander). Ossai was a good draft pick but he's on IR, and it's always hard to say what the Day 3 picks are gonna yield given most are raw and/or limited.