Cincinnati Bengals Week Five Recap: Swaying the Skeptics

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Published: October 13, 2009

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... 27-20; that was the last time Cincinnati could agree that their team was a contender.

After that, they wandered out into the wilderness and remained lost for two whole seasons.

Yet after five games, something familiar, yet entirely different, has emerged from the fog.

 

This new form of Bengal is hardened and doesn't like to talk much. They survived on berries, wild game, and meaningless late-season wins. Times were tough, and many thought a new low was inevitable for the hapless Bengals last season.

 

But after a particularly miserable drubbing by the Colts in Week 14, some weird, introspective, peyote-like moment happened in the locker room. The team stared at their horrors in the face; all of the egos, all of the losing and blaming bubbled to the surface of Marvin Lewis' cauldron. It was a n...

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