You know the Bengals must be 5-0 because the media has arrived complete with notepads and sedatives and is proceeding to psychoanalyze them as if they are being prepped to rescue Matt Damon from Mars.
And we were doing some of that analyzing, too. Guys like cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick, who once went unbeaten in a galaxy, galaxy far, far away at Alabama, patiently hear the questions. But he feels the answers. Maybe because he has seen them before.
“There’s something brewing. There’s something going on,” Kirkpatrick said. “This is a different team. I haven’t played on this team.