Cincinnati Bengals fans are about to get the excitement of a whole new season injected into their veins when the team travels to Cleveland on Sunday to battle the Browns in Week 1.
Can I be frank with you? Wait, my name's not Frank. No but seriously, any NFL predictions that forecast an entire season are fun in theory, yet tend to be obsolete very early in the proceedings. Beyond all the premature overreactions, by midseason, seldom do things shake out as expected.
So for purposes of this exercise, with a hat tip to the greater FanSided NFL staff for the concept, i thought it'd be fun to focus on the first five games of the Bengals' schedule.