An ill wind blew through Paul Brown Stadium Sunday (steady at 20 mph, gusts to 35, to be exact) bringing with it a whiff of the Lost Decade.
Technically, the Lost Decade of Bengals football lasted 12 years, between 1991 and 2002, the completely lamentable Shula/Coslet/LeBeau Era, when everything that could go kablooey did, when the terms “Bengaldom’’ and “Bengalized’’ entered the local lexicon and the Bengals struggled each week simply to overcome their own habitual incompetence. It was fun like night sweats.
Analysis: Uninspiring and irrelevant in December, your 2018 Bengals
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