The 2005 team

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(05-09-2023, 05:10 PM)packerbacker Wrote: I’m not even a Bengals fan but I believe that team was a Super Bowl team that could have won it all had they got there and if Palmer didn’t get hurt. I think you could say they we’re just as good as the 2021 team. What do you guys think?

Had Palmer not gotten injured, it may have been a different story.  However, the only path to greatness I could have seen for that particular team would have been to jump out to a sizeable lead, put the opponent into pass-first mode, and allow an opportunistic secondary to take advantage of some unforced errors.  That '05 team was good, but not built to prevail in a defensive slugfest by any stretch.