09-17-2024, 11:27 AM
(09-16-2024, 09:05 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: For the most part, Marvin's teams could play with anybody. This was supposed to be the next step where the Bengals are the standard to be judged against.
I would say they have somewhat made that step though.
We no longer suck in Prime Time. Clearly better than Marvin's Era.
We can win playoff games. We're 5-2 in the playoffs in the past 3 years.
Within Burrow's two 'fully' healthy seasons, we won the division back-to-back, and went to the AFCCG back-to-back, once to the SB.
Even last year with a completely unknown QB and a poor defence, we had a winning record and weren't far off making the playoffs.
Other than KC, who's standard has been better? I'd rather have been the Rams (due to a SB win, though let's not forget they went 5-12 two years ago), and you'd have to say the 49ers with 3 straight NFC Champ games and a SB loss, but I'm not sure who else is at a better standard than we've been across those 3 years.
