... never had much time for the Bengals. To my mind, they have in recent years become a team of woeful underachievers whose failings are not helped by an owner who has always seemed to favor personality over success or team harmony.

Nothing that has happened these past couple of months has changed that view, and there is a certain hard-edged opinion which states that, in any sport which employs so many people at the top level, one or two might not make it to the end of the season. However, for one side to lose two such prominent individuals during the course of the season is always going to be hard to take.

The one thing you can be sure of is that, during the coming weeks, the side playing the hardest out there will be the Be...

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