Thankfully for Bengals special teams coordinator Darrin Simmons, he changes kickers almost as often as head coach Marvin Lewis uses a starting quarterback.
On Sunday against the Steelers (1 p.m.-Cincinnati’s Channel 12), five-year NFL veteran Randy Bullock figures to become just the sixth kicker to score for the Bengals since Lewis and Simmons arrived in 2003. In that same stretch Lewis has started five different quarterbacks but unlike Simmons, he had an obvious next guy.
Not so here in what is an Apollo 13 emergency job just to get the ship home with elimination from the AFC North a blown fuse away.