Winning when no one expects it is fun. Winning when you are supposed to win is hard.

[grampahol]

Going into any season strength of schedule is typically an unknown since nobody really knows how any individual team will actually play. Last year most people expected Baltimore to be on top in the division or perhaps the Browns, but almost nobody expected it to be the Bengals. You can make predictions all day, but at this point you're only guessing. Any team can get injuries galore or just not gel together. Maybe one or more teams develop  bad cases of divas or coaches make poor decisions.. Anything can wreck any team's season.. Bengals seem to be in a good position with the lions share of last season's team returning, mostly the same staff, but you just never know. Just because some teams paid big bucks for FA's doesn't mean they won't have fatal holes in their rosters or poor backups and lack of depth..  We shall see..