"I put Cincinnati in that conversation with the top four to five teams in the AFC, but I don’t hear them talking like that," Solomon Wilcots said. "I mean, I'm talking like that, but I don’t hear them."
The Bengals' roster is one of the team's deepest in recent years and despite a primetime implosion in Week 2 of the preseason, there's good reason to believe this Bengals team has a good shot at once again making it back to the playoffs in 2015.
If they do, the story the national media will focus on (once again) will be the Bengals' last six trips to the playoffs, all of which have been one-and-done appearances, including four consecutive seasons of losing during Wild Card weekend with Andy Dalton in the spotlight.