COMMENTARY
The Patriots don’t play the Bengals until Dec. 15.
That might not seem like that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, but it would have been fitting for New England to stay the course on its current schedule of competitive ineptitude. Cincinnati is, after all, the only remaining winless team that New England has yet to feast on through the first five weeks of the 2019 NFL season.
But hey, the Bengals are bad enough that they could be looking at an 0-13 mark heading into that mid-December showdown.