Sooner or later, the C-word comes out and spoils everything.
The Cincinnati Bengals can sign prime free agents, draft gargantuan offensive linemen and try to make the color orange look fierce on a jersey. Until they abandon the C-word, it’s all just talk.
Compete. Lose it.
De facto general manager Duke Tobin said the dirty word again on Monday during an otherwise uneventful Zoom press conference:
“We've got some work to do to compete in our division, for sure. We've got a good division. It's historically been a good division. We've had our share of competing in it, but we certainly haven't the last couple of years.