Andrew Whitworth isn’t looking for the gold watch just yet.
Whitworth, the Bengals’ cornerstone left tackle at age 33, says he’s got four to five years left and he plans to play them like this past season. Which he considers the best of his nine. And as he goes into his 10th year now a full two years removed from a knee procedure that plagued him for all of 2013, he says he’s never worked harder or been in better shape in the offseason.
“I’ve never given up zero sacks and no free hits on the quarterback in a season and not many do, so, yeah,” said Whitworth Monday when asked about 2014.