Since the 2015 Wild Card loss heard ‘round the world, there haven’t been a lot of monumental games for the Cincinnati Bengals. That turning point in the franchise’s history marked not only the beginning of the end of the Andy Dalton/A.J. Green/Vontaze Burfict empire, but also a descent into NFL irrelevancy for the following near-half-decade.
A new coach couldn’t immediately bring the spark back to The Queen City, but his youthful exuberance and intelligence being paired with one of the best college quarterbacks in recent memory?
Well, the opportunity to start erasing franchise stigmas is here and now.