The Cincinnati Bengals are an enigma of a franchise. They have a top 5 QB in football, the most prolific pass rusher in the league last season, and a top 3 WR tandem which includes a top 3 individual WR in the league (and I’m being very conservative with all those rankings). A team with that amount of high end talent in a division with the perpetually terrible Browns and consistently mediocre Steelers should not be struggling to make the playoffs.
Yet they did, missing out on the playoffs entirely and wasting Joe Burrow’s best year of his career so far.