Duke Tobin, the Bengals de facto general manager, did it again. If you listened to Tobin say nothing else in a Zoom presser Monday, this was all you needed to hear:
“We've got some work to do to compete in our division for sure. We've got a good division. It's historically been a good division. We've had our share of competing in it, but we certainly haven't the last couple of years.”
Close your eyes, hear Mike Brown speaking.
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I hate to pound this into the ground, but since it’s pretty much the key to everything the Bengals do, I will:
“To compete’’ isn’t good enough.