CINCINNATI -- It was during the pregame huddle for the Cincinnati Bengals' offensive and defensive playmakers when receiver Mohamed Sanu called up a group of his teammates and did his best to motivate them.
The previous two weeks, he said, the group did not play like itself. Back-to-back losses had the Bengals looking like a shell of the once-8-0 team that ran through the first half of the season. It was Sanu's belief that each of the players in that huddle had to do "whatever it takes" to get back on the right side of the win-loss column.