WHO-DEY!

I wish I could have said 3 3/4 Stars. Way to go Sin-cinnati. If this were college they would definately be Miami; good team with about 10% of the team potential prison material.

Marvin Lewis is a great, great coach, but hopefully his overlooking character will not come back to destroy what he's building.

Either everyone rated the team 5 years ago, or you are all a bunch of morons.

bad.....

Yeah, they're having a good year but they've only beaten one team (Steelers) with a winning record. We'll see just how legit they are come playoff time and next season when they play a real schedule. Excellent head coach, I'll give them that. Chad Johnson's an a**hole...

Look good so far. Maybe they've come back from the dead. UPDATE: Some people need to come over here and throw a good rating down. At 4-0, there is no way these guys should be rated below my definition of suck, the Arizona Cardinals.

Where did this team come from? 3-0 start! Carson Palmer is looking good so far. Lets see if he can keep it going. UPDATE: Make that 4-0!!

I've yet to be fully convinced they're for real, but they look pretty good so far this season. A 3-0 start didn't look like it was in the cards in the pre-season.

Uh-oh, look out "Bowling Green". 3-0 what a start. This team is the best team in the AFC, STATISTICALLY. Dukesucks, you don't know what your'e talking about. Knock off the crap. It's Bengal Season.

quit all the hatin

They have a crappy defense, I know. But to be rated under the CARDINALS!?!?! C'mon! They have a good offense with Carson Palmer, Rudi Johnson, and Chad Johnson! Tell me why the Bengals are placed last in the league. One word: UNDERRATED!

Worst players (most of them) Worst city Worst pigs worst management worst fans The ranking ( and their pathetic) annual record speaks for it self.

They're right on the cusp of mediocrity, now if they can just manage to stop shooting themselves in the foot they might be half way descent.

I think they have a chance of winning the division, but they won't get anywhere in the playoffs.

bungles

You know the Bengals have been a laughingstock for a long time when their fans are getting excited that they are 3-5. I mean most other teams would start getting ready for the draft with a record like that. Carson Palmer is praying to the gods that John Klitna can somehow finish the year with this crapfest joke of a team. You know he hopes never to start for these idiots. Peter Warrick is so overrated and nobody cares about him. The smartest guy on this team is Corey Dillon, who wants to get traded. 3-5 doesn't make his nipples hard and start thining Super Bowl like the rest of the people in cold and windy Cincinnati.

Do I really need to explain? Actually, they had a good draft...on paper, so far.

better than last year by 3 games...laughing stalk will be a thing of the past

Shouldn't even be in the NFL. They are an enema

Marvin Lewis, please make me change my rating. I"m a Jaguar/Buccaneer fan, but I would love to see the Bengals among the top rankings in 2 years. My friend and I always joked that the Jets would go to the playoffs in a couple of years after winning less that 4 games. Lo and behold they did. Maybe Mike will let Coach Lewis do his job and won't screw this up.

Less than pathetic...

The Bengals are not as good as they used to be! Plus, Mike Brown is a greedy money-spender who must go!

This was a very disappointing season

The last star is pity...

Who-dey, who-dey...

Dear Mike Brown, I was wondering if you could help me with this dilemma? My little brother bet me that he pee-wee football team could cover the spread against you. Is this true?

They're not called the Bungles for nothing. I would analyze the team but that would take forever. So I'll make it short and sweet. Every aspect of their team sucks: offense, defense, and special teams. God help them.

I've been a Bengals fan all my life. I grew up in the Wilmington, Oh area and used to frequent the summer camps when they still trained there. Conditions at Wilmington College were not as plush as the Georgetown, Ky settings. Heck, even the rooms were w/o air conditioning. There is very little nightlife in Wilmington and very few distractions that can interfere with training. I would see a few players at local bars and the county fair, but for the most part, they were here to train. Yes, the Bengals have been horrible for years, but astoundingly bad since moving their training camp to Georgetown.

What an awesome team. They may very well be the most incredibly talented bunch of athletes I've ever seen. NOT!!!

Cmon folks. Have a heart, its almost christmas

just cause they suck, doesnt mean you need to hate them, they dont hate you

Hey! They almost beat Cincinatti High in the regional playoffs last year.

Otherwise known as "The Team That Never Will." They've always had talent but very mediocre managers and coaches. They know the lose column alot more than the win column.

Give them a break, it's not easy sucking year after year after year after year......

This team is butt.

The Bengals are football's best kept secret. They just need to get their stuff together and they'll be holding the Lombardi trophy high! I enjoy sniffing paint after my day job at the chemical plant!!! I'm 37 and I live with my grandmother!!! I lick the skid marks out of my undies!!!

UNC Tarheels are better!!!!!! Julius Peppers could tear em up on D & Ronald Curry is just like the starter Cincy has (Donald Hollas? Akili Smith? ah, who cares; they change teams EVERY YEAR!!!!!) at QB. Relegate this team 2 Arena Football; oops, only the world's most popular sport (soccer) has that. Oh well

THIS TEAM WOULD HAVE A PROBLEM BEATING MOST OF THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAMS. IF THIS WAS A CORPORATION,IT WOULD HAVE GONE OUT OF BUSINESS A LONG TIME AGO!

The Bengals have become the poster children for a poorly run franchise. Mike Brown, the owner, has put his children in charge of a lot of the day to day activities of the team, including football-related decisions. Notwithstanding the new stadium and a supposed rejuvenated committment to treating players well, the Bengals are notoriously cheap, confrontational in negotiations with their star players (which makes you think about how bad they must treat the other players), and football's laughingstock. Realizing how much of joke they are, the team has tried to put clauses in new contracts which would force players to pay back part of their signing bonus if they badmouthed the team. Unbelievable.

The Cincinatti Bengals look good on paper, but they can't win on the field.

HOW IN THE HELL THEY BEAT THE 49'ERS I'LL NEVER KNOW.