The Bengals.com Media Roundtable calls it resoundingly for Cincinnati in its bid to set the franchise record with a ninth straight regular-season victory.
Pete Prisco of CBS Sports, a long-time believer in the Bengals since the 2011 Re-Boot, calls them as balanced as any team in the NFL and thinks they’ll make short work of Houston.
John McClain, the Pro Football Hall-of-Fame writer for The Houston Chronicle, has watched an offensively challenged team fail to run the ball like last season and wonders if the blowouts in Atlanta and Miami could re-surface on a national stage at PBS.