It's really hard to be a Cincinnati Bengals fan right now. Their lack of rhyme or reason for anything they do roster-wise continues to rear its ugly head amid the team's subpar performances.
That qualifying statement aside, Sunday's 26-20 home loss to the New England Patriots at least featured a major silver lining. You could say the defense as a whole played at a high level, and that'd be true, but an unheralded hero in particular really rose to the occasion.
The big question is, why didn't this happen sooner? And the suspected answer is one of the flaws that keep holding the Bengals' organization back.