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The Bengals hope to replicate the success of 2011 in the 2020 season

Cincinnati Bengals, Andy Dalton(Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

In 2020, the Cincinnati Bengals will hope to sneak into the playoffs just as their 2011 counterparts did.

The year was 2011. The Cincinnati Bengals were coming off of a 4-12 season and had just parted ways with Carson Palmer and Chad Johnson. Practically the entire sports world was sure of one thing: the Bengals were a bad team. That year, the Bengals went 9-7 and made the playoffs with rookies at both the quarterback and the wide receiver positions in Andy Dalton and A.