I’ve been getting a lot of “Haha!”s lately thanks to the Bengals being ousted by the Chiefs in the AFC title game.
This is because I thought they were a neat story going into the playoffs. I thought the same thing last year when Cincinnati came up just short against the Rams in Super Bowl XLVI.
The Bengals were an interesting team in 2021/2022, but then again, so were the Rams, who entered the postseason as the fourth seed in the NFC. Los Angeles went all in before and during the 2021 regular season and really hit its stride once the playoffs began.