Imagine if in the last two Super Bowls won by the Patriots that the Seahawks and the Falcons ran the ball when they should have. Imagine if owner Robert Kraft, crushed by such close losses, fired head coach Bill Belichick back in February despite his ground-breaking innovation and three Super Bowl titles from the previous decade.
And imagine if in about 2022 Belichick formed an expansion team and the NFL put it down the road from Foxboro, Mass., in any pocket of New England where the Patriots are now King. Not to mention the AFC East. And give him until 2025 and the Belichicks beat the Patriots by a game to win the division and …
Imagine …
In the 50th year of the Bengals and the 48th year of the rivalry with the namesakes that stripped his father of everything but his name, Bengals president Mike Brown is still the 13-year-old Cleveland kid when the ball kicks off Sunday (1 p.