Watching the Bengals try to win football games is like pulling good teeth with bad pliers. It’s the inmate, peering through his cell window at the gleaming city across the bay. It’s the bear in the river, watching a salmon fly through his paws. It’s like that.
Find wall. Bang head. Repeat.
What is a tie in the NFL if not the ultimate nothing? What does it mean except you weren’t good enough to win, or bad enough to lose? “We didn’t win,’’ said Joe Burrow, answering that question. “If you don’t win, you lose.’’
If there is any consolation (or justice) both the Bengals and the Philadelphia Eagles deserved to lose Sunday.